my one-thousandth post

Goodness, how did that happen? It's in the same category as old age - creeps up without your even noticing and ambushes you. My first blog post was January 31, 2005, which means I'm coming up on a 5 year blogiversary in a couple of months. It hardly seems possible. More on this, later. As a result of my delicious lunch at Sujatha's on Thursday, I asked her to send me her recipes, which she did. This morning, depressed by the boring idea of going food shopping, I decided to look for an Indian supermarket and found Patel Brothers,several miles away. I had the MOST fun shopping there and came home laden with ingredients I had either run out of or didn't have in the first place. Fresh chilis, cilantro, curry leaves, beautiful ginger, and a host of dals. On weekends they have fresh samosas, 2 for a dollar, so I bought half a dozen. They smelled divine. Tomorrow night we will have a good dinner. Today, I cooked for Jessica and will send several meals in tomorrow with her father. He, in turn, will bring me back the sewing machine I bought for Jessica that she does not want. I was supposed to go in to the city tomorrow but now I will go to the studio instead, to get ready for Open Studios next week. I have a few more scarves to finish and have to figure out what work I am putting on the wall. In the meantime, here is the scarf I put the umpteenth layer on tonight and I think I am done. Or not. We'll see. I will give it away by random drawing in honor of my 1000th post to one of you who leaves a comment tomorrow. Make sure your e-mail link is there or I won't be able to contact you. Each comment has a number, so if yours is picked you're the (lucky?) winner. One last note, before I go to bed: Ever vigilant, Verizon.net seems to be going overboard with its spam filter. Tonight, I was quite annoyed to see that they intercepted some exciting and hard-to-resist offers that I really need to take advantage of. 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