Another week in August

On cold days this is a perfect place to hang out to read or watch TV.

This silly cat seems to like to be close to me. Sometimes on my lap and sometimes she just walks over me to get to the window.

She's in charge - table, chair, sofa, or in your face. Whatever.

Joke and Kees came home for the weekend for two parties. We had a nice visit. Linda and Joke went for a walk down toward the river and found these sites.

Its always surprising to us that just a few steps away from this bedroom community, there is farm land and you can find a woman driving a horse pulling a wagon.

Linda continues to bake non-gluten goodies. These are new: surprisingly light and nutty biscuits. Good for sandwiches or just butter.

Lynda Adamson, a dear friend, shows up with an overlap with Kees and Joke for a couple of hours. 

On the night after, we walked to de Smickel restaurant to have Dutch pancakes with our reflexologist and her husband again. 

The next day we drove to Delft to the pottery factory and the old town for some shopping. After a visit to the factory gift shop and some purchases, we drove to the old town and had lunch. 

Lynda had a very large carpaccio, I had a really great hamburger, the best I have ever had in the Netherlands, and Linda had a zucchini and mackerel soup that she liked.

After lunch, I walked over to a coffee cafe called Doppio and had one. While the girls visited the new church, shown here first, and then the old church. In the old church was the grave of Vermeer. 

Afterward, we all had coffee, me again, and then drove back to Soest through heavy rain. A good day.