17-9-2010

17-9-2010
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Friday, September 17, 2010 Day 79
This morning I made some cream puffs, which took two trips to a nearby grocery store. Then I went to the planning meeting for the AWG Garden Club with Peggy. The hostess, Sue, is married to a French architect, and she has a lovely house and gardens located atop a low hill. There were eleven of us, including Sue’s cousin, Jenny, who is visiting from Australia. I already knew about half the group, and made new friends at this gathering. Unfortunately my cream puffs were less than successful, in part because I filled them too early. Sigh. On the way back, we stopped at a favorite bakery of Peggy’s and bought some bread. We didn’t get home from the garden club until around 4:00. Peggy said she was going to walk Egan along the River Lez, so I called Roger and asked him if he wanted to go. He came to meet us and we drove for about 20 minutes to a rural area with fields along the Lez. It was an easy walk, and we were able to unleash Egan and let her romp. Her favorite sport is chasing birds, although I don’t think she would know what to do with one if she caught it. That is not really a worry – the birds are in no danger. The area we walked in is part of the agricultural school and there were a number of experimental plots, one of which contained peanuts. Another field had had sunflowers in it, but they had been harvested, leaving behind marvelous bird food. We found several sunflower heads, some of which still contained lots of seed, so we collected them for Peggy’s yard where she feeds birds.