indoor/outdoor beer

last night, ben, keri, and i sat on a wooden patio as the sky fell dark, eating indian food. the plastic chairs were strangely uncomfortable, but such things tend to fade. due to the painfully 'american' liquor laws, we were forced into choosing between consuming beer indoors, or not consuming beer outdoors. we concluded that we would sit outdoors, leaving the beer indoors, and walk in for the sips. while this made for a rather broken and epileptic dinner, it was wonderful nonetheless. it has been a week of such things. the praying mantis on the fence when i came home from a run, only the third i've seen in my life. the greek feta with tonight's salad that was painfully good. the best sour cream i've ever had. my ride to winters this afternoon, pulling in the last smells of a lingering summer as the wildgrasses die off and join the dirt. an award for the film from the newspaper. a pint of raspberry ice cream that keri and i will be eating in moments. flannel sheets with the cool october air. the existence of drawings of witches. pumpkins in my backyard, small as they may be.

Posted by jeff pitcher at October 13, 2005 09:02 PM

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