Shared by one of my athletic granddaughters...try to keep up!
Painting: 'Mary Magdalene' by Cassandra Barney
I must mention that many friends of mine will be celebrating today as the feast day for Mary Magdalen...who was never a prostitute even though Pope Gregory called her one. I won't go into Biblical or Gnostic teachings, because I'm a complete novice. But I do like the story of Jesus' favorite disciple, Mary Magdalen.
So a day without any schedules, just doing whatever came next into my mind to do...and a call came from a friend who had left her truck at a repair place yesterday when I drove her back home. Now she needed to go pick up her pickup (sorry.) And she was very worried that we wouldn't get there in time for their closing, though I didn't remember her saying we needed to be there by any time, just that she said let's get there around 5. So she was not happy that it was already 5 of 5 when we hadn't gotten there yet, and she couldn't reach them by phone. Had they closed early? She kept trying, and finally got through to someone, who said they'd leave the key under the matt. So we arrived, truck key was in place, and my friend was happy (there had been nothing wrong with the truck according to mechanics.)
She invited me to dinner and we went into east Asheville, to a new-to-me Pakistani restaurant, Biryani Express. This (above) is the view out the restaurant windows. It's in a strip mall near Kohl's store. Oh, and we had a deluge of a thunderstorm just as we arrived, so we kind of were baptized when getting out of the car.
That restaurant had a long list of vegetarian dishes...and spices would be ordered as mild, medium or hot. We both chose mild, and mine really was...but my friend's had a bit of a kick to it. There was lamb, beef, shrimp and chicken also. And we forgot to order Nan, though we did remember to have Samosas before the meal. We were almost though eating when we ordered Nan, and ended up taking some home, as well as another meal of the wonderful food!
These two pots of begonias are by the entrance to the office at Blue Ridge apartments.
And this is the view from that office entrance, looking towards some of the apartment buildings
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