7/7/07

I don't feel especially lucky today. It is a very nice day, I'm doing yard work. Maybe I'll get to finally meet Scarlett Johansson today. That would be lucky!

Fourth of July 2007

We had another neighborhood cookout today. I made sloppy joes and blueberry cobbler. The sloppy joes were perfect for me, but a bit too spicy for some of the other folks. So I'm eating another one right now. I have a penchant for Red Devil sauce.


Two new people joined us today, Beth and Denny. They live around the corner, but we chat often when I take Katie for her walks. We all missed Ellen, though. It looks like Patty must have tried some of my sloppy joe sauce!

David really enjoyed seeing Katie again. They played hide and seek, with David doing most of the seeking.

A few of us took the afternoon off, sitting and chatting. I even tried to sneak a nap in.

But once the football started getting tossed around, it was too dangerous to nap.

Tina caught one!


After a short bike ride that ended in disaster (a skinned knee), David powered down in his mom's lap, Beth and Denny headed home, and Karen, Tina, and I went to see Transformers.

A weekend wedding celebration

My best friend held a wedding reception for his oldest daughter last Saturday. The new bride is on the right, and her sister on the left. They MUST take after their mother, because my friend just ain't that good lookin'.

There was some kite flying, some cornhole playing, and horseshoe tossing, not to mention nearly non-stop chatting with old friends and new acquaintences.















We ate roasted pig (YUMMY), roast beef, delicious garden and pasta salads, and an incredible fruit salad and loads of pastries that the bride's mother made, as well as wedding cake. Ice cold beer washed the food down.


You KNOW what's gonna happen next....



Rick made every man at the party jealous with his new fire ring. Yup, that's all stainless steel. Welded. With 8" legs and 3/8" round bar stock welded into the bottom. Damn. I want one too!


We stayed up late talking about life and love, while joking and laughing, and a little bit of crying. The youngest daughter has some life decisions to make, and I was truly amazed by my friend. I saw a side of him I never thought I'd see. He told her that she would always have someone there for her, that she was the most important half of his life, shared with his other daughter, and that he loved her. Jeez, I almost started bawling!