For those of you who may not yet know,
I've moved to a new Cyber Home!
Tales From The Labyrinth continues
~HERE~
www.lealabyrinth.com
Please come and join me!
I look forward
to sharing more adventures
and wondrous discoveries
with you along the path!
I came home,
to a very wet Sonoma County,
and to this picture
from Elizabeth, Gerry, and Gabe, still in Colorado...
Elizabeth wrote in the subject line...
"Thinking of Milt"
This was my first return home from a trip,
with no Milt to greet me...
But there was Orin,
picking me up at the airport
taking me to get my rental car,
and making sure
that the invading horror of ants
attempting to take over our house and home,
were completely gone...
How fortunate I am...
And... there was this picture...
So I'm stretching
for your oh so subtle messages Milt...
in new and different ways...
Home is calling...
The circles of my hearth,
calling to the heart space in me
full of friendships near and far...
of places new,
soothing the raw
and jagged edges of my soul...
Nothing better...
than a good cup of coffee...
and a good conversation...
with a good friend...
in our Christmas hats...
at the Bean Cycle Coffee shop
in OldTown Fort Collins
Christmas Day was such a joy...
spent with such good friends and family...
Amanda and Sam arrived...
There was time for a Christmas Story reading
by Elizabeth called the Thingamajig Christmas...
even the puppies listened in...
Then Gerry and Gabe arrived
just in time for the ceremonial cutting
of the seventeen layer chocolate cake...
Malia's mystery Christmas gift
from Amanda was revealed...
Sam opened coffee after coffee after coffee
for her new machine...
Jewels were discovered...
While Christmas Elves watched...
And me... I was completely surprised...
by Elizabeth's gift of my favorite vintage hat,
complete with vintage hat box from our hat day...
What a day of joy was had by all...
Bow by Donna
at Designs in Fort Collins...
Three posts in one day...
This one is for Steve and Emily...
who would have loved this dinner
and the ambiance of this beautiful restaurant...
Even though I had a lovely invitation to visit extended family of the friends I'm staying with... I find that I still can not attend large social occasions...
So... I took myself off to my favorite sushi place in Fort Collins, Jeju Restaurant...
I asked for Omakase, which means in Japanese, literally, that I put myself in your hands, in your care. The head chef created a feast for me that I would like to share with you here...
I started with a warm cup of green tea...
Then miso soup...
Then a delicious salad with seared tuna...
followed by scallops wrapped in tuna...
Then a sashimi platter like I've never seen before...
after that came the nigiri with the freshest hamachi roll...
sans the scallop nigiri that I ate
before remembering to take a picture...
Imagine my surprise when desert showed itself...
tempura cheese cake dancing
around the cutest orange panda...
A feast for this night indeed!
Woof!
It has been such a delight
to stay with Elizabeth's two daughters,
Amanda and Malia...
And even more fun,
has been to watch the merriement of Christmas cheer and
surprises between these two sisters...
Here is Amanda with her gift for Malia...
Aren't you a wondering...
just what
could this be???
Well...
so is...
Malia!!!!
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