Movie Night

This afternoon we went for a short bike ride and looked at two Tanglewood open houses. Both were attractive, but way too large and "showy" for us. It seems that many builders build to sell, not to make livable homes.

Tonight we watched Iris--a movie about Iris Murdock, novelist and philosopher, who descends into Alzheimer's. The central focus of the movie is her relationship with her faithful husband John Bagley (on whose books the movie is based). The younger Iris is played by Kate Winslett, the older by Judi Dench. It's very sad and touching, making especially clear the implacable deterioration of a fine creative mind.

Breakfast was oranges, sweet potato hash, herbed cream cheese omelets, and toast with jam. For lunch we had leftover creole jambalaya and stir fry, plus banana and pineapple. I cooked a pound of dried black beans and used some in summer squash and black bean stew for supper with cole slaw. We had apple and sweet potato crisp with ice cream for dessert. Ken admitted to having been skeptical but enjoying it.

I used the rest of the black beans to make soup for later.