Peeps dioramas, Cooking Fingers, Martini Night

Even though it was raining and Michael’s golf was cancelled, he made his regular breakfast omelet on Monday morning (4/23):  

I got a second butterfly started: 

and one additional row on my quilt before leaving for Cooking Fingers.  Each quilt row on this design has over 11,000 stitches…so it takes a while to stitch out.  And the bobbins run out every 1-1/4 rows…so that slows me down.  Anyway…when I got to the Lake House and noticed the display windows I was really excited.  Before Easter there was a PEEPS diorama contest…there were many, many entrees and I was irritated with myself that I never got up there to take pictures…some of them were totally hysterical.  There were a few left in the window and since I had my camera, I snapped these:  

pickle ball peeps

Easter parade hat peeps

Cooking Fingers was wonderful!!!  

Paula giving her regular welcoming spiel!

The program was cooking through the ages and they started with the 1940’s.  All of the presenters 

friend Joan

friend Linda

had lots of facts about the food that was popular, what was invented during the decade and what people were drinking.  So we had chicken ala king from the 40’s, a molded jello salad from the 50’s, an artichoke square from the 60’s and hummingbird cake from the 70’s.  

Everything was yummy and I was certainly full by the time I came home at NOON.  I spent the afternoon finishing up the second quilt:  

and finishing a second embroidered butterfly:  

before the newest butterly

and after....

I think this wall hanging is really coming along!

Just before 3:30 we headed up to the vet with ALL of our furry babies  
:~(.  We were supposed to be going for the kitties 9 week inoculations, but I swear the kitties have mange…they’re getting patches all over their bodies…and Cookie has something starting in the corner of her eye!  It ended up that the vet thinks Cookie has an infected cat scratch…and then we started talking about the kittens….here’s what I wrote to Nadine (kitties foster mom) when I got home:

“Kitties got 2 inoculations and one de-wormer.  Vet thinks they have ringworm (answered my question...yes I can get it if broken skin....I laughed....I have kitten claw puncture wounds all over!!!  I told her to pull out gun and shoot me right then, but she said not actual worms....just a fungus so I came down off of the ledge).  Have to do culture...won't know for 7 days so nothing to fix that until we know.”

A huge bill later, we got home after 5 PM.  I kind of just putzed around until just after 6 PM when I picked up Donnis and headed over to Pat’s for martini night.  

doesn't our hostess look pretty?

The food was OUTSTANDING!!!  George made 2 deep dish pizzas (he & Pat are from Chicago) 

and Pat made an antipasto salad.  

For dessert she made an Italian Wedding Cake and it was scrumptious!

We played Salad Bowl and talked and laughed through the entire night:

Andi, Patti, Barb, Ellie, Pat, Donnis

I didn’t get home until 10:30 and Michael and I stayed up until almost mid-night watching TV and talking a bit.

****MMR (Michael's Movie Reviews)****

CHAPPAQUIDDICK =

If you hate the Kennedy’s, you will love it. 

If you love the Kennedy’s, you will hate it.

The “untold” story of Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne shows what power and wealth can do for someone.  Ted Kennedy pleads guilty to ‘leaving the scene of an accident’ when he probably is guilty of ‘vehicular manslaughter’.  The family relationships are delved into as well.  I give it 2-1/2 fat quarters out of 5.

BEIRUT = Starring Jon Hamm.  This is a well written, tense, fictional account of a kidnapping of a CIA spy in the early 80’s in the middle east.  Arabs, Muslims and Jews all play a part in a prisoner swap.  Things that were happening in Lebanon 30+ years ago are still relevant today.  Jon Hamm carries the picture with excellent acting.  I give it 4 fat quarters out of 5.