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After a day painting the new pergola,
 a dry martini beckons.


11 comments:

Pete said...

And what a vessel to drink it from. Enjoy!!

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Zhoen said...

How charming.

Lorenzo da Ponte said...

... ready to sacrifice its very existence in the greater cause of your improved well-being. I'd forgotten this aspect of you HHB because you're otherwise so healthy. I'm tempted to deconstruct the rest of the photo: ie, and when the larger hand points down to six, you can have another. I'm sure during an earlier reincarnation I have discussed the essentials (It's gotta be Noilly Prat and, for me at least, Tanqueray.) But this is surely the martini straight-up, even straighter up: no olive, no twist of lemon. Very very grown-up. And, being the philosopher you are, you have devised the ultimate safeguard: when you can no longer safely rest the glass on its impossibly small base you know you've had enough.

grrl + dog said...

what a beautiful glass - for a second I thought the little thing down there was the olive!

herhimnbryn said...

LdP. Usually one large green olive is acceptable or a twist of lemon (depending on my mood). However, neither were available, so what's a girl to do?!

herhimnbryn said...

Grrl. It's a tiny green jade frog!

Pauline said...

ah peace and rest and a good thirst quench all at once :)

Lucy said...

A glass so unstable putting it down for any time is not an option, you would have to nurse it.

Martini's are like breasts, they say, one is not enough but three is too many. In fact I can't drink one, though I quite like Noilly alone, and will eat the olives out of them!

Rouchswalwe said...

Gin I assume. Not Wodka. Which gin do you prefer, hhnb?

herhimnbryn said...

R. It's gotta be Gordons! have tried others but much prefer the dryness of Gordons.

Rouchswalwe said...

Yes! Gordons it is with the yellow label. You and I can most definitely drink together, hhnb!!