Another Cold Day

Chilly drizzle and overcast made today a good day to cocoon. We did go to Pharr this morning to dance to Joe Saltel. There were 12 squares, a pretty good crowd, but we hear that he draws many more at the height of the season here, January and February. After the dance we went to Jason's Deli for lunch with friends. We split a Southwestern chicken sandwich and the featured soup, Poblano corn chowder. Both were delicious. The chowder was creamy, but with a bite.

After lunch we stopped in the Linens N Things going out of business sale. The main thing we bought was a green satin striped duvet and bedskirt. The store was nearly empty. We put the duvet and shams on the bed when we got home.

We used Amazon for most of our holiday shopping this year. We ordered subscriptions to Discover and O: The Oprah Magazine for Kelley. The magazines won't start arriving until February, but Kelley said that hearing they were coming made her smile and brightened her day. That's just what we hope for when we select gifts, and it was thoughtful of her to let us know we'd hit the mark.

For dinner I made salmon patties with lemon yogurt sauce. It was a different recipe than I usually use, with mashed potatoes incorporated and breaded with seasoned stuffing crumbs.

We're hoping for better weather tomorrow, but the cold front that dipped into the area yesterday may persist a while. I finished reading a Robin Cook novel, Marker, borrowed from the resort library. I read it largely because I recalled enjoying some of Cook's earlier work, but the last few of his I have read have been pedestrian and predictable.