CRAB CAKES AND CHEESE GRITS

April 28, 2018

You read that title correctly.  My supper tonight was Crab Cakes and Cheese Grits, and my only complaint was that the grits were too thick, kind of a grits cake.  I started off with a seafood chowder which featured black mussels, shrimp, crab meat, and scallops.  And the diet buster of the evening – and I’ve been very good trying to keep up with Weight Watchers, but not tonight – was a butterscotch sundae.  The appetizer and main course were both hot and the dessert was cold.  Excellent.  And did you ever wonder if you could have one grit?

As I blogged last night (at least I think I did) I had room service deliver breakfast this morning at 6:30 so I could rehearse for a 9 a.m. talk.  The EXC director apologized to me for scheduling it so early – he forgot that we were turning our clocks ahead another hour last night (we are 4 hours ahead of you right now).  But there were about 75 hearty souls out with coffee and sweet rolls in hand as we did, “Raise A Glass.”  Tomorrow at the more sane hour of 11 a.m. will be “Yes, We May Have No Bananas.”  It is one of my favorites.

Speaking of forgetting about changing clocks, one of my regulars came up at the conclusion and asked what was the time.  It seems she forgot to make the change.  Bless her heart, but she go an extra hour of sleep.

As we were coming to our stateroom following this evening’s excellent variety show (excellent is the repeatable word for tonight) a couple stopped me and commented favorably on “Raise A Glass.”  I told them tomorrow is about bananas, and he had a photo on his cellphone of the record that gives the talk its title.  And a photo of a restored Victrola – that’s iTunes of the 1920s.  And we had one when I was a kid at 117 Shenandoah Avenue.  Actually we HAD one because we took it back to the cabin along with a stack of records because there was no TV reception out there and we never took a radio.  One weekend we went out and discovered that a nere-do-well had broken in and stolen the record player and the records – that was all he, or she, took.

As I mentioned above we thoroughly enjoyed tonight’s variety show.  The comedian did an all new stand-up routine and the harpist was back with a totally different selection.  He closed with a Frank Sinatra parody (I wish I had recorded it for you).  She closed with “Mamma Mia.”  Which reminded me that MM2 is coming out soon.  We will be at the first show.  Anyone joining us?

My obsessive exercise partner went out for a walk this morning at 6:30 as I was consuming breakfast and she reported back that at 7 a.m. here in the north Atlantic, the moon was still up.  And as I type this at 9 p.m. our time (5 yours) the sun is still out.  It reminds me kind-a-sort-a of Samara in 1993.  It got dark at 11 p.m. and light about 4 a.m.  Dark in Moscow at midnight.  That was in June and July.  White Nights would have been the situation had we gone up to St. Petersburg.  This cruise is continuing to St. Pete, and we’d like to see it, but we’ll be home to do laundry while they sail on.

Speaking of laundry, we sent our dirties out to be cared for this morning, expecting them back tomorrow or the next day and as we came back from the show, a steward was walking to our door with our clean clothes.  Great service.  I wonder if they’d come to 117 and help me when we get home.

Well, Bon Bon has given me charge of the keyboard tonight, so I will wrap it up with a mystery blog title.  I won’t use it tomorrow (Sunday), but I will save if for Monday.  With the title “Devil in the Dark” where will we be landing Monday?

For now, TTFN