Soup and salad

Eastside Road, August 10, 2011—

ONE OF THE STANDARD FALL-BACKS when it's too hot, or for some reason you just don't feel like anything complicated: soup and salad. Today was funny: very hot, hot enough you just wanted a Pernod at the end of the afternoon; then, while drinking the Pernod, it turned chilly.

We were happy to make do with packaged tomato-pepper soup and a big green salad with lettuce from my garden again. Later there'll be fruit; the place is overflowing with it.

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