special K

our best, wonderful, most specialist friend kathy hanawalt came to visit in june. we both lived with her in tacoma, WA during separate semesters in college at the parthenon-- our somewhat delapitated rental with giant greek columns looming over the front porch. kath traveled to see us from tacoma and left behind her hubby, Bill (Guillermo) with their adorable daughters Nora and Maryn. 

it was a blessed reunion.  

among many chores, kath picked all the sour cherries off our trees and made martha stewart's sour cherry and pistachio crisp. tasterific! 

 we also spent a wonderful saturday on a short hike in 90 degree heat where I turned into a tomato and had to baste myself in all the icepacks I could dig out of the grocery cooler. we then drove slowly up upper canyon road all the way to the randall davey audubon center. we enjoyed vast conversation topics while eating fruit and stopping to take pictures on this historical calle. it was soooo relaxing... and we followed it with burgers and milkshakes at flying star. happiness...

we ate lots of good food at home, too,  including green chile enchiladas.

on monday i had to work so kath busied herself pulling  some monster weeds, and then...

making us a special dinner of blackbean and quinoa salad and a side of watermelon/jicama/lime/cayenne salsa so we could watch emily date a bunch of superdorks on the bachelorette. totally my kind of day. 

 ... and paco now has a new auntie.

i was so blessed these guys could reunite as it has been seven years since N left our beloved tacoma.


thanks Jesus for such a special friend and such a refreshing visit.