Rainy day at the beach house and watched THE NOTEBOOK with Adrian and Belle to see if Ryan Gosling would excel in the lead for the new script.  The answer:  a resounding “YES.”

Hurricane Irene has left us “stranded” here until Saturday… Made the Barefoot Contessa’s seafood salad for the first time and dining on the balcony tonight with A & B. Oh how we suffer!   (Life is so good!)