September Morn' and Afterwards

I slept in and awoke to another gorgeous morning. I made Chocolate Chip Buckwheat Pancakes for breakfast. I talked to Mom for an hour. She's fine. She might be teaching a knitting class for beginners at Michael's starting next month, and she's thrilled. She's also thrilled that my brother is starting his senior year of high school the day after tomorrow...and once he's gone, she won't have to get up early to send a child off to school anymore, for the first time in 27 years.

Spent the rest of the morning baking Corn-Colby Cheese muffins, making Beef Stew for dinner, and watching Please Don't Eat the Daisies. I've always heard that this Doris Day/David Niven movie is rather cutesy, but I'm enjoying it. It's based after the tales of a real-life theater critic known for his scathing reviews, his smart, sensible wife, and their four rambunctious boys (and one oversized sheepdog). She gets them to move to a fixer-upper house in Connecticut. She's happy there and fills her time with various volunteer committees for the school. He's not happy there. He'd rather be among his hoi-poli New York friends. It doesn't help matters when an actress looking for publicity makes a play for him. It's a lot of fun, and far less sugary than its reputation suggests.

Work was almost exactly the same as yesterday. On and off busy, no really major problems other than the usual obnoxious beginning-of-the-month people. I was in and out on time and with no relief.

Got home in time for this week's Dress Circle and a shower. "The Shows of September" was the theme this week. Enjoyed hearing songs from Sweet Adeline, Fine and Dandy, West Side Story, and the sensational Angela Landsbury London version of Gypsy.