Summer supper

At the end of the day yesterday, I called Cindy at home and asked her what she and Kate wanted for supper. Cindy informed me that Kate wanted pasta with a lemon sauce, goat cheese and fresh basil. I considered that and Cindy informed me further that Kate was willing to allow us to add to the mix with whatever we wished. I thought that was nice of her and started thinking about other things which could be added. Cindy suggested mushrooms. I was actually thinking about shrimp, but a little dubious of where I could get good shrimp. Most of the grocery stores around here seem to lack a good supply of shrimp these days.

I suggested we could use some of the cherry tomatoes off of our bush. Cindy thought that all sounded pretty good.

So I drove down to Ingles and picked up a lemon, cheese, a bag of salad, some pasta and some mushrooms and a few other items we need around the house.

When I got home, Kate, who had not been feeling very well all day, rallied and took over. Within a few minutes, she had sauted the mushrooms, cooked the pasta, added the lemon sauce and taken the basil which I had picked from our patio garden and added it to the pasta. That evening we had a nice little meal of pasta and vegetables with a salad and I opened a bottle of red wine. It was nice.

After supper, Kate and I drove over to the Jones' house and swam a bit in their pool. Unfortunately, the red wine and my cold got in the way of my swimming and I ran out of steam pretty quickly. It was alright.

That was a nice summer evening.