Sunday Scenery and a Domestic Update

I thought it might be nice to have a quiet little moment looking at a new snap of dear Mr. Upen Patel, that longtime Café favorite and Bollywood semi-sensation. Isn't he pretty?

But, you may ask, what else is going on, after all the momentous changes in the lives of Mr. Muscato, Boudi, Koko, and me?  Excellent question!  So, so much.  Among other things, in the past few days (in and around celebrating the Fourth with an excellent lobster supper), we have gotten ourselves a new (to us) Muscatomobile, a most serviceable vehicle of a kind poised somewhere between tiny SUV and station wagon.  Even more momentously, we found a flat that met most of our criteria, being handy to public transport, within walking distance of most of life's necessities, and, while not downtown, at least in a respectable inner suburb of Our Nation's Capital.  It even has a postage stamp of a balcony, which fascinates the dogs no end.  It will be a challenging exercise to put our assorted belongings in the place, which is in its entirely just about the size of the drawing room at the former Villa Muscato out in the Sandlands, but such is price for having six Thai restaurants within walking distance (not to mention a Pottery Barn and a tapas place - oh, we're very Guppy Bobo all of a sudden, you know...).

We moved in this morning, and now are sitting quite companionably in the empty place, which contains in its entirely at the moment one brand new bed, two folding chairs, our suitcases, and two rather dazed but generally contented terriers.  It's a relief to be delivered from hotel life, and now we can devote our energies to settling in and seeing what mischief we can get up to in our new surroundings.  I can only hope that the tapas place features more prominently than Pottery Barn...