It has been a difficult week with illness (cold) and jury duty. I am through with the cold and nearly through with jury duty. They do seat juries here on Fridays. I was up for four trials and was thrown off of three for believing that drugs should be legalized and/or having a sister who is a prison chaplain. J has been home a lot in the mornings ( Read more... )

Okay, I was in Metropolitan Market in Tacoma and they had truffles for sale. We were in there for lunch and at the deli counter they had the mushrooms. Truffles are amazing. When I was in Florence, I had a pasta dish that was a grated truffle in a little cream, butter, and maybe an egg yolk and that was it. It may have had a little garlic and ( Read more... )