Cleaned out the gutters from those gorgeous leaves I mentioned yesterday, and the not-at-all gorgeous slush of sediment, mud & rotten leaves. The joys of home ownership!
Great news, OTOH, from my sis back home: my nephew who had been dealing with serious depression and suicidal thoughts has apparently met his first crush ever — a fellow patient in the psychiatric unit who is 20 and training to be a nurse. Their first date was a French movie festival. I’m so happy for him, and hope things go well, given the circumstances!!!
WFD was a long due gathering of my chile heads. We had a total of 14 hongry eaters, including a few friends we’d not seen since before our summer vacay — our Scottish buddy who’d been taking care of his mum back home, another friend who’d spent the last 2 semesters in Boston, plus our friends who spend their fall & winter in NYC happen to be in town for the weekend. I ordered two each of (decent) cold Sichuan noodz
very good beef with long hot peppers
excellent cumin beef
vegetarian mapo tofu especially ordered for our vegan group member,
who then proceeded to snarf up a bunch of the eggplant casserole with minced pork*, as did our Scottish Jewish friend 
*and taking the leftovers home with him 
Don’t ask, don’t tell, I guess…
Of course, we also had to get the very good Chongqing chicken
the lovely, not too salty dry-fried green beans
and a fish dry pot, perhaps the least interesting dish of the evening
The owner gave us hot buns with condensed milk on the house for dessert. I didn’t try bc I was stuffed to the gills.
A joyful dinner with delectable eats & good conversation.
