San Francisco Summer Days

A summer day in San Francisco. Real fog pouring in through the Golden Gate. Now That’s Summer! Poor tourists wearing shorts and T-shirts. Even when they are told that it will be cold and foggy they just can’t grasp it. How could a summer day be cold? Isabel and Bob the Boxer sit in the window and watch the tourists as they slip down the steep hill, hanging on to each other for warmth and security. A baseball cap flies off of a young man, he runs after it and is smart enough not to put it back on until he gets off of our windy hill.

Vacation means more time in the kitchen for us to create chocolate treats. Yesterday it was chocolate pudding from scratch. Today it will be a new recipe that GHIRARDELLI's ad agency sent to me along with a star cookie cutter and lots of delicious dark chocolate. They are donating $100,000.00 to the MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION. Bravo, Ghirardelli! Our review later... In the meantime we cook, we sew, we stroll down to Polk Street for slices of pizza for lunch from ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK PIZZA, I get my Blue Bottle Cappucino from CAFE LAMBRETTA, Isabel gets a chocolate chip cookie from Lotta's Bakery.  Summer is good.

Comments

[E]

Can I attend camp at your place next year? Sounds like yummy fun!

[Jackie]

This very morning, I debated whether or not to wear my peacoat to work.

A peacoat.
In the summer.

Welcome to San Francisco!
I love it. :)

[Sean]

Heh ... I used to work literally across the street from Pier 39. July and August we'd sit in our lunch room, looking out the giant plate-glass windows at the throngs of tourists in their board shorts, sandals and ... brand-spanking-new San Francisco sweatshirts no doubt bought at an incredible premium. Now THAT's summer in San Francisco. :-)