Wednesday

I chose--surprise!--a cup of English tea in the morning, with milk and sweetener, followed by a small bowl of fruit and cereal: a half banana, a quarter chopped persimmon, a teaspoon of dried cranberries with a handful of oat circles and milk. A drizzle of half-and-half. (That darned small carton is now almost half empty! One of these days, I'll get it finished.)

Exercise: a whole hour at the gym, a half hour on the elliptical walker and a half hour with weights. Instead of returning home for breakfast, we bought ourselves a cup of coffee (regular, with milk and sweetener) at the Heidelberg Cafe and walked next door to the Sapphire gourmet shop, where Ellie told me they make good breakfast sandwiches. Indeed they do. I had a "Traditional"--English muffin with scrambled eggs, ham and cheese, hold the cheese--and we ate out on the patio in warm sunshine, with a Pacific Ocean view. Ah, eat your heart out, you freezing mid-westerners!

We walked down to the same intersection of Pacific Coast Highway for dinner out at K'Ya, our current favorite restaurant. We like it especially because they have a good menu of "small plates" to choose from--plenty of food at much less cost. I had a "small" Romaine lettuce head salad with a blue cheese dressing and cranberries, very tasty; and scallops, two of them, large and nicely cooked with a small portion of mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables. Accompanied by a pleasant glass of Fume Blanc.

Ah, yes, and on the way home we stumbled on a chocolatier's shop, tucked away in a previously-unvisited corner near that same Sapphire gourmet shop. With a tempting array of tiny samples. We tasted everything and, judging it good, came home with a couple of choice items, and enjoyed a quarter of each for dessert. My choice, remember?