Happy Anniversary Sweetheart

With today being Mother’s Day (Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms), it’s also 23 years to the day that my lovely wife and I celebrated as we stood in front of our fireplace and exchanged vows in front of family and a few friends. It was a wonderful day in the house neighbor’s called “the little dollhouse.” Happy Anniversary Sweetheart!

That ceremony was the accumulation of an extraordinary year. As I said in an earlier post, we first viewed the house on New Year’s Day, 1998. In February, we moved in and found out what happens to the front of the house in the spring. As I recall, the large, pink, Azalea bush was in full bloom the week of the wedding. Only to have a rainstorm spread flowers all over my driveway, as I found after the rain this weekend. Oh well!

Anniversary Dinner

Finding a restaurant that is not booked solid in the Northern Virginia region on Mother’s Day is next to impossible; I decided to celebrate our anniversary dinner last (Saturday) night. After the rains late in the week, a cold front covered the mid-Atlantic region.  It was too cold to go someplace and sit outside. For the second year in a row, I ordered take-out this year from City Tavern, and we ate our anniversary dinner at the dining room table. Surrounded by a couple of cats who were waiting for any table scraps they could steal.

Afterward, we finished off the evening with Rice Pudding from Katerina’s. Since Atlantis Restaurant (in Alexandria) closed earlier this year (very sad – I had a history there with Frank Simons and their menu), Katerina’s is the best Rice Pudding I’ve found in the area.

Happy anniversary sweetheart! You are still the best thing that ever happened to me.

A Changed Look

Yesterday afternoon Linda and I went to the Hair Cuttery and got our hair cut and styled. It started because of Covid and continued as a joke. I had not gotten a haircut in over a year. I added a beard earlier this year. So, after a year, I started to look like my younger brother Michael (gasp!!) or pro golfer, Tommy Fleetwood. I kind of like the look. It was different. Something I had never tried before. I wanted to see how long I could let it grow. However, the warm weather and Linda’s comments, and the experiment came to an end. It’s now short (I kept the beard). I want to say thank you (again) to the extraordinary employees at the Hair Cuttery at the Shops at the Glenn.