Mon.-Another busy day. Went out to town to clean up after the wedding and almost everything but my dutch ovens soaking was already cleaned up! I found lots of pork over in the youth fridge and Lindsay and Susan packaged that up at home and froze it. Ran other errands out in town and then the Bantons came over for lunch and the afternoon and we had a great time. I made a cake for Claire E. and took the girl's on a gator ride and ended up at the river for awhile. They love it down there. As always, they are all so wonderful to be with and the time sped by too quickly. Around 6, our whole family went over to Happy Valley and had supper with the Shippey's. Kelly made roasted vegetables, mashed potatoes, pork loin, chicken, salad, and brownies with ice cream. First though, she made an artichoke spinach dip. I remember the recipe. 1 cup each of mayo, sour cream, and parmesean cheese, and mozarello cheese.. Mix with one can each of artichokes and spinach. Add salt and pepper and 1 T. herb seasoning. Bake at 350 for 20 min. Serve with little slices of soft French bread. I was full before we started the main course.
Tues.-Claire and Susan spent the night in the mancave bedroom. They went down to the river in the dark last night and got a little spooked by the branches cracking around them. Went down again today. The river is our happy place and the bugs aren't bad right now. Last year the little 'bee's were tormenting me so much I spent little time down there during the summer. The bluebells are still pretty but will be gone in a few days. Haven't heard from the honeymooners. No news is good news. And I don't expect to hear from them.
(It's April 25th and I am going to try to catch up on blog today.)
I packed for a week in Pa and the shore. Shippey's had us over with the rest of the family. She made chicken, pork loin, roasted veggies, mashed potatoes, and hot caramel and chocolate syrup salted caramel ice cream with warm brownies.
Wed.-Met Bantons at the Food Lion in Dillwyn and Lindsay rode with me until we reached a Starbucks in Harrisonburg. Enjoyed coffee and snuggles with Adi. It was hard for me to say good-bye. Had a hard time staying awake this trip. Pulled off and slept in a store parking lot and went shopping at the thrift store when I woke up. Stopped at Glenwood Foods before arriving at Rosalee's around 3:30. Had such a nice visit with her. Jim brought Benji, Mother's cat, all wrapped up in a blanket and I held him for a long time. Rosalee served a delicious supper on Mother's dishes. (turkey sausage, brown butter noodles, peas, salad, applesauce, applepie filling cake and ice cream.) Katrina and Annika are both expecting. Found out Abie's and Karen's Kendra is too. Christmas should be really exciting this year. Nathan will be the oldest little cousin. Went to Naomi's by 7:30 and settled to bed early. I always sleep well at Naomi's.
Thurs.-Rosa met us and we went over to ? Oh, I forget the name. Summerfield Farms? We bought breakfast sandwiches and saw Tom Berg there. His baby girl is getting married. I've always had a special place in my heart that holds her dear because I was there at her birth. We headed towards Atlantic City and went shopping at the outlets because the owners of the beach house doing some work on it. We found things at Dress Barn, Ann Loft, and Van Huesen, and ate at our Mexican Restaurant. We came back to OC and got settled n our rooms and then walked the boardwalk from beginning to end. We ordered pizza and asked for it to be delivered and it got to our place before we did. We watched 'Shall We Dance?' and got to bed early. Woke up and fell back to sleep again. I feel like I could sleep all day.
Friday-Lazy morning. Walked up and shopped on Asbury. Got our pastry at the bakery. We had a lot of packages and asked Bev where she was and didn't she pull up just as we were coming out of a store. She brought lunch and we went to the beach and walked on the boardwalk. We ordered in Chinese and watched 'The Intern.' This is new for us this year. The ordering in. And we love it. We want to be hunkered down at night watching a movie in our PJ's instead of dressing up and going out to a nice restaurant. Again, we packed far more clothes than we needed. Plus bought some more. Someday we'll learn.
Sat.-Note I copied from face book. For Aluminum removal from body eat coconut oil and drink Fuji mineral water-1 liter per day for 5 days in one hour. Did I copy that right? We had a leisurely breakfast of Naomi's yogurt, granola, fresh fruit, Cinnamon rolls that Bev brought from Shady Maple, and coffee. We walked up to Asbury and watched The Doo Dah parade. 500 beagles with their owners plus other parade like things-bands, etc. Shopped and found Christmas gifts for the girls and right now gifts of jewelry from Ta-dah. Got another fresh pastry from the bakery. Came back to house and rested and watched another movie and got dressed to go out to the Melting Pot that night. It was interesting. And funny. Rosa kept sighing and saying, "There's so much meat." Later, we found out that Naomi had slipped 5 pieces of her meat over to Rosa's plate. It makes me laugh every time I think about it. A lady came in and caused some problems at the front desk just as we were leaving. One of the girls at the desk called 911 or security. Bev herded us out the door in the wrong direction down the street. It was a little scary. I wonder if the lady is homeless and what happened to her to make her lose her mind. We came home and watched 'Nantucket'-a Moby Dick story. Very good, as was The Intern for the most part. I won't mention that movie that had us in tears about best friends and one dying of cancer.
Sun.-Naomi and I walked the board walk. I found a soft blue sweatshirt for Susan and a life guard hoodie for N. We ate the best pizza in the world made by several generations of an Italian family. Also got a Kohl's orange cream and vanilla twist ice cream. Oh, and a licorice pipe in honor of my dad. It always embarrasses Naomi a little when I act like it's a real pipe as we stroll down the boardwalk. It can't be as embarrassing as the tail of toilet paper that trailed down my backside for half of the stroll down the boardwalk. Oh, this year we started a journal. Now we're trying to remember the past 20 years of crazy things that happened. That being one of them.
Came back and Bev and Rosa joined us all bundled up on the beach for several hours. Ordered out at an Italian Restaurant. Watched another movie. Then Bev had to leave. But she was rested and happy. Watched the Proposal on TV and went to bed.
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