The garden, breakfast out and more

Today we picked 17 1/2 pounds of tomatoes that will be used to make sauce for canning. I also picked enough pole bens for dinner.

After processing the tomatoes the slowly become tomato sauce. Sometimes Susan will also make diced tomatoes to can. Once canned they go onto the pantry for later use.

On Sunday morning we went to breakfast with our friends Mike and Linda at Café Zola, on W. Washington in downtown Ann Arbor. It was sad that after not going for breakfast for the past three years our favorite item was no longer on the menu (crepe Zola, pilled with tomato, fresh mozzarella and basil). Oh well, I settled for my second choice, which I also have ordered in the past – the Turkish brunch. This is a variety of olives, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, havarti, feta, a boiled egg (which I gave to Susan), two stuffed grape leaves coffee and a bread board (chocolate filled croissant, raisin bread, wheat bread, another bread, butter and fig jam) for $17.95. While that seems expensive, there was a lot of bread and cheese left over that became part of the next days breakfast and lunch.

Today, we took my Aunt Irene out to lunch to celebrate her 86th birthday.

More on her and family tomorrow…