Memorial Day Party

Hi folks - didja think I'd left? Nope, just working my tail off. Also, I'm so mad - my camera decided to do a "format error" on the memory stick (I'm sure I didn't do anything to it!) and I lost all my pictures from our Memorial Day cookout! I'm so mad! We had such a good time despite the occasional fire ant. We sat in the back yard under the big oak tree with picnic tables (actually borrowed tables & chairs from our church) and ate and visited well into the evening in our vintage metal lawn chairs. There was a nice breeze so it didn't get too hot. My dear Husband cooked all afternoon - smoked chicken, sausage and burgers. We had potato salad, baked beans, and all the trimmin's and my friend Sandy baked her prize winning carrot cake (& a chocolate cake, too) - I swear, it's like an italian cream cake almost, it's so moist. It was a special request from me! Thanks Sandy!

Anyway, a good time was had by all. Everyone loved our house. I filled up all the rooms with roses and had them outside and on the tables. I also pulled out all my old vintage table cloths and old dishes. Soft drinks were iced down in a big ole galvanized water trough. We did a grand tour, several in fact, for the stragglers. We have several that would like to come "borrow" our little farmhouse for a weekend away from home. I guess we could go into the bed & breakfast business if we wanted, huh! That's a thought. But no, maybe for special people - otherwise, me and my family wouldn't get to stay there much...

I'll leave you with this photo - the place I wish I was 99% of the time. Mexico.

Don't guess I'll be going anywhere this summer, as we gotta get Princess ready to go off to college, and all that entails....