Last night I went to the same vegetable dinner I had attended last year, and this year we thought the food was even better. I met a group of
the Slow Food people there, and we wandered from station to station and enjoyed
dishes created from heirloom vegetables by local chefs such as carrot “pastrami,”
beet brownies, and the one we liked best, candied peppers on cornbread. So
good! One of the dishes had a very hot pepper on top of whitefish and a hardy
bread, and I forgot that I had touched the pepper. After we had all tried
everything, someone said what time it was and I rubbed my eye, which was
instantly filled with intense pain. I said, “I have to run to the bathroom to
take care of this, and then I’ll head home,” but by the time I got to the
bathroom, my eye had already recovered. I had second thoughts that the evening
really wasn’t that late, but I felt a little weird to go back to the group
after saying goodbye, so I went to the bus stop and the bus soon came by to
take me home. It was a new bus with very cushy seats; I have seen these driving
around town but hadn’t gotten to ride one yet. When the bus got to the transfer
point, I got off and walked to my car, marveling at how there seemed to be
lightning in the distance in every direction and even overhead. The entire sky
was flashing! “Maybe it is best that I headed home when I did!” I thought… and
just as I parked, some lightning struck nearby. Boy, did that scare me! I ran
into the house, and not long after the rain poured down and the TV and our
phones notified us about a flash flood warning. So then I thought the little
bit of pain from the hot pepper in my eye was worth it to get home before a
horrible storm!
Famous Hat
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