Michael
left for golf early on Saturday (7/27) and I got 2 peach cream pies made with
the leftover peaches from the peach crisp:
I used
to make these 2 pies in September every year and take them in for my boss’s
birthday….I would get up early and bake them in the morning, and drive everyone
on the bus crazy with the smell J. I
spent several hours working in my studio, then Michael and I got cleaned up and
headed out to Pat and Mike’s for their open house. They moved in on our street several months
ago and I visited them then and brought some homemade jam, so I didn’t want to
take the same thing to their meet-the-neighbors-open-house, hence the peach pie…one
for us and one for them. There were lots
of people there we already knew, plus a few we had never met, so it was fun
meeting some new people. We only stayed
for about 45 minutes, because we had to get home and get ready for our neighbor’s
dinner at our house. I put together
baked beans and got them in the oven, then mixed up hamburger and spices and
made 15 hamburger patties. We were ready
for the influx at 6 PM. Now….asking me
to remember to take pictures during a party is like asking the captain of the
Titanic to pay attention to a hang nail, just as the ship starts to list! Too many other things on my mind (Michael took all of the pictures at the birthday party). So, I just have to tell you that we had
potato salad, macaroni salad, spinach salad,
lettuce/tomatoes/cheese/condiments, baked beans and a yummy lemon/blueberry
cake for dessert. We pushed out our furniture
in the living room and set up tray tables for everyone. It made it easy to talk to everyone, and there
was still room to move around. So it
was 20 – 25 people over for the birthday party on Wednesday night and then 13
of us for dinner on Saturday…I think we’re done entertaining for a bit.
After
a bike ride/dog walk on Sunday, we made blueberry pancakes for breakfast and perused the
paper. I spent many hours Sunday finally
totally finishing the third woven bag:
and my
veggie hat (this is supposed to be a pumpkin) and I'm not sure I'm doing any others because this one was a pain-in-the-patootie!:
At one
point in the afternoon, I spent a bit of time playing wild life
photographer. We have 3 to 4
hummingbirds that play/fight all around our feeder. One has taken to resting (hiding?) on a nearby lemon
tree branch, and then attacking when 2 others try to come in for food. I finally managed to get a picture of him on
the branch…thanks to the new, greater zoom on our new camera:
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