Souper Sunday aka how to avoid rainy day cabin fever

Goal - to develop a group project to help mitigate the rainy day blues

In Oregon, when you've spent many hours watching it rain, your brain starts to gather moss and get all mushy. As a potential antidote, Father Time's friends have come up with a partial solution to challenge.

Ingredients

Every other Sunday evening we gather with three other couples for Souper Sunday. Since it's dinner time, the host prepares some sort of hearty soup. Since this a really informal affair, I.E., using everyday china and low-cost wines, the menu is deliberately kept simple - soup, a salad, rustic bread, and dessert. No frills, no fancy finger foods, and really disgusting manners after the third glass of wine.

The Result

Bottom line (after all I'm a retired banker) - a great Sunday, a nice way to wrap up the weekend, and minimal discussion of the weather. On the negative side of the coin however, is discussion of the current economy. Typically, someone requests a nice cordial to wrap up the evening and suddenly the economy unimportant until Monday morning's CNBC news.

Not bad. Not bad at all!