Today has been another special day because my niece Mary's group, Wildflower Weed and friends, performed at Mondo, a great spot for food, drink, and live music in Sonoma.

Early breaky of yogurt and berries.

So then i had a small lunch earlier with my friend Kathy at Mary's Pizza Shack: their great mixed salad with vinegar and oil (I love the cruets, so I can do the ceremony of mixing myself) and a nice local St. Jean chardonnay (umm, for a starter I had a "Sinatra" cocktail, a dirty martini with two olives stuffed with blue cheese, looking like ol' blue eyes himself!

Then when I went to Mondo this evening, Kathy couldn't make it, so my friend Linda and her friend Laura joined me and my sister, Rosemary, Mary's mom, and I shared starters of roasted brussels sprouts with pancetta and peccorino romano, and their great French fries, and a glass of a new Sonoma beer (now Sonoma is coming out with something other than wines) Sonoma Kriek, a dark wheat barrel aged with tart cherries, 5.6% alc. For my entree I had their pulled pork sandwich and a glass of Sebastiani Sonoma Coast pinot noir. I finished off their second set with something I learned from my young Swiss cousins when we visited them two summers ago, almost like Jägermeister or Fernet Branca: two shots of Untermeyer bitters in a big glass of cola and ice! Delicious and settling!

Today started with black coffee. Around noon I ate two Cherry Pie Lara Bars.

Later in the afternoon I had tofu and black bean enchiladas. Then I had a few of the largest red grapes I had ever seen. A little later another Lara Bar, Cashew Cookie this time.

I just had dinner, it was white rice and steamed tofu.