Barn Quilt

 

Drove over to Friend Nancy's this morning.  We went out for breakfast and then drove over to the Big City.  Friend Kathy and her husband Stan were staying at a hotel there for awhile and we thought it would be good for all of us to have a fun day.  The temps were below zero but we met at a huge mall and that provided all sorts of distractions without ever stepping outside.  I wanted to check out Macy's.  Macy's used to be one of the places I'd go to get my crystal fix.  No - not crystal meth; crystal crystal - you know, Baccarat, Lalique, Waterford, Kosta Boda, Orrefors.  We went to the third floor but there, where a quarter of floor area used to be taken up by crystal, it was now homewares.  Couldn't find any crystal at Nordstroms.  We bopped through the mall to the other end, stopping here and there.  Found one of the food courts to sit, talk, look over the middle of the mall, and get something to eat.  One of the franchises sold falafels.  Had hoped to satisfy my yen for Indian food.   Stan was getting some exercise by walking the mall floors and stopped by for a moment before taking off again.  Few of the stores I remember from when I lived in the Big City remain.  We checked out some of Kathy's fav's and then while Nancy and Kathy went to the Lindt Chocolate store,  I headed for Barnes and Noble.  I was interested in getting more Annotated books.  I can find them on-line but for this kind of purchase would prefer to check them out in-person if I could.  The area of the store where I used to find them had been taken over by Manga but the 'house expert' was able to locate one annotated book in the discount section.  It was a different kind of annotation than my other books.  Kathy and Nancy found me drinking a latte at the coffee shop in the back of the store contemplating if I should buy the book.  They, in the meantime, had found a display made up of books banned currently somewhere in the U.S.  We thought of changing our book club to reading one of those books each month and I came up w/ the name The Bad Book Babes.  (Not sure that name went over well so if you have any other suggestions let me know.)   Later we dropped Kathy off at her hotel and drove home under the light of a full moon.  Nothing like getting away on a cold winter's day.