The Marauders (mavericks) won again yesterday.  Our men made it look easy although we only won by around 20.  A really easy win usually has a bigger margin than that.  There were a handful of cousins there and some friends but most of the stands were full of folks I didn't know.  It was a good turn out.  I guess all the controversy on campus has spurred a bit of interest among some of the students. 

Carolyn was there.  She has recently read all of Jane Austen's books.  I told her if she liked those, she would love Georgette Heyer, who was Barnes and Nobles featured Author of the month last month.  I'm currently re-reading The Devil's Cub.

After the game, we had some friends over for dinner.  We had piri-piri chicken, the recipe for which can be found in Emeril's New New Orleans cook book.  One of our friends is a vegetarian so for him we got a cheese pizza onto which he tossed some piri-piri sauce and a pile of the jicama orange salad and it was delicious.  There were seven of us crowded around the kitchen table.  We could have fit easier around the dining room table, but it was a whole three feet away and had two big, heavy lap-tops on it, taking up all the room.  It would've taken us, like four whole minutes to turn them off, fold them up and move them off the table so of course we squeezed around the kitchen table, which was six feet closer to the food than the dining room, too.

The conversation never flagged and there was usually two or three different topics going on at once, which everyone seemed to be able and willing to dip into and out of.  It was a lot of fun.  After dinner, Jay insisted on a game of 31.  He had to teach us all the rules again.  Josie got home from a volleyball clinic in time to play.  Jay was the first one out.  Tom wanted to lose next because he really wanted to go sit in the backyard and smoke a cigar but it took a few hands for Dick to destroy the rest of the field.  Finally we all grabbed glasses of wine and joined Jay in the back by the fireplace.

It was a beautiful, crisp clear night.  It was cold, but the chiminea handled that problem.  We sat outside for quite awhile.  I was really surprised when we went back in that it was midnight.  Michael and Chauncey then bought a pair of watercolors from me and I threw in a figure study I'd done years ago just because they liked it so much.

Jay and I had gone to mass right after the game so we could sleep in this morning.  I woke up at the crack of 8:55.  A beautiful, sunny morning.  I drank my coffee and did needlepoint on the porch til it was time to wake the kids.  Jay cooked us all breakfast after they got home from church.

I went up to get some work done but my head aches a little so I came down here instead.  It's Sunday, how am I supposed to work?

Two days til Star Trek comes out on DVD.

 

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