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Happy Anniversary, Shirley!

Update--Therapy Session

Just so we are all clear - this therapy session was needed as a break from work not my husband! :)

me and my camera

On the Green

Can you spot the difference?

Picture 1

Picture 2

We went to the beach music concert on the green this past weekend. The concert was really crowded so we actually ended up across the street in the shade of some trees. It was nice on our side of the road, we could hear the music, enjoy the shade, and not be part of the mob scene.

Now - back to the difference between these two pictures. The difference is our luck. I don't know why this always happens to us - I have some theories - but people always sit RIGHT next to us. See the guy's elbow in the first shot? As I already mentioned, it wasn't that crowded on our side of the street, however this party of three plopped down right next to us. This incident wasn’t as bad as the last – that guy actually bumped into Allen a few times AND had super stinky cheese on his dinner. I mean super stinky cheese. Anyway, this group had hamburgers which smelled strongly but it wasn’t necessarily a bad smell.

This luck seems to follow me to Zumba class as well. Zumba is a high activity cardio dance class and you need some space. Now, I know my Zumba class gets really crowded but seriously folks - why do you need to stand within an arm's length of me? I've tried standing in different places around the room but someone always decides that they need to stand on top of me. I have hit (& kicked) a few people but that hasn't changed my luck...


Ah well - we enjoy the concerts and I love Zumba so C'est la vie.

Saturday Evening Post

In true Shirley fashion - this post is most random.

It all started on Friday when our bison was still frozen so we had to postpone our homemade bison burgers and settle for leftovers.  C'est la vie.

Nothing was planned for Saturday so we made sure to sleep in and start the day lazy.  We decided we couldn't be lazy all day so we headed out to do some yard work.  I declared war on the grass growing in the flowerbeds and proceeded to get distracted.  While about half of our  flowerbeds are now grass free - here's the real fruit of my labor from weeding...

I can't remember what this plant is called (we call it the purple one) but it is on the West side of our house and the morning sun hadn't dried up the rain from last night yet.  I was very intrigued by the water droplets and the indirect light they were getting.

Luckily, when my husband found me with the camera he too was intrigued at what caught my attention and was not annoyed that I had been distracted from my chore.

It's good to have someone who understands just how hard it can be to not drop your weed bucket and run inside to grab the camera when greeted with this type of scene.  If only this could be my life work.

After lunch and all that weeding (ha), we headed out to run a few errands.  Our first stop was Goodwill to drop donations off.  I couldn't help myself and checked out the book selection. 

Look what I found for 75 cents! 

 

The lady behind me in line said that I could learn how to set a table if I read the front of the book.  I politely told her my mom made sure I knew how to do that long ago.  But yes this book is great for everything from setting the table, to preparing a fire for outdoor cooking, to cooking a crown roast.  Some recipes I've already spotted (but may not necessarily make) include peanut butter and bacon sandwiches, strudel, wiener schnitzel, raspberry sherbet, chicken divan, and French toast waffles.

Our second errand was to the grocery store where we picked up the condiments needed for our bison burgers. Once home, we fired up the grill and got ready for dinner outside until the thunder threatened and we moved our picnic inside.  Despite the change of venue, our burgers were delicious.

A Burger (almost more stuff than burger)

K Burger  (leaning tower of toppings)

Here's our inspiration for this meal.

 How'd we do?

While, we didn't have crinkle fries - I think we did a pretty good job.

Yum!

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Homemade bison burgers for dinner.  I'm so excited; I can hardly stand it.

Delivery

Our new grill was delivered today, so of course I had to break it in! 
What was on the menu?

Pizza of course!

I didn't make the dough tonight, but I found a recipe, so I'll be attempting that someday soon.

Better Late Than Never

Here we are showing off our masterpieces at MegArt last month. 

Good times, good friends, and pretty cool pottery!

Four Courses

My parents were in town this weekend, and to celebrate Mother's Day, we went to The Melting Pot.  We went for it all and ordered the Big Night Out with cheese fondue, salad, main course fondue, and of course chocolate fondue.  Three hours later we were stuffed and on our way home.

Portrait attempt number one.

Attempt number two didn't go much better.

Not as much trouble taking a picture of this side of the table.

Choose your own destiny.

Presentation and Execution of eating a lettuce wrap.

Raw chicken and green shrimp - Yum!

Making sure everything was cooked through and through.

Dessert on fire!

Happy Mother's Day!

Cotton Candy

Served up as tonight's sunset.

Hometown Baseball

We spent last Friday night at the ballpark. We've heard great things about the stadium so we decided to take our nephew to a game. My sister and some of our friends came along so it was 5 adults to one kid but we made it through anyway. He was really into it - however I'm not sure if it was the baseball or the crazy stunts between innings that really had his attention. He was fascinated by the radar gun and was always reporting back just how fast the pitch was. We ended the night with ice cream served in a mini helmet. As my sister said, "I'm a sucker for the souvenir cup." Of course - we can't forget the firework show after the game was over.

Because an 8 year old never poses normally for a picture.

Looks like 28 year olds don't either.

Saturday we went to the Furman game to see my sister at work.

She was covering the double headed which didn't end up so well for Furman.

We enjoyed our time on campus anyway.

The hit that made history.

This homerun hit broke a freshman conference record.

Isn't she lovely?