Saturday

Check out this photo! It is the picture from the front of the anniversary card sent to us by Bob and Joanie. It is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time! Hopefully my blog won't be flagged for inappropriate content, but I just had to share it. Thanks Bob and Joanie, Jim and I love the card! I love it when I find the perfect card for someone-I imagine you saw this card and said, "YES!"

So, we had another beautiful summer day here. I went to the Park Avenue Festival and walked around for 2 hours-they didn't make much money on me, but I was glad I went. 

We spent a bit of time cleaning up the house this afternoon, because we hope the friends that we are going out to dinner with will come back here for dessert. We are dining with Tony and Ann Vodacek-Jim runs with Tony and we have done dinner with them in the past. I made a fresh peach cobbler before going to the festival so we have a delicious dessert to come home to. Of course, Corey would have liked to have had the cobbler for breakfast, but I squashed those hopes and told him we would try to save him some for when he came home from his boss's wedding. 

Tomorrow we go to Toronto, probably leaving in the mid-morning. I have the address of a yarn store that I've never been to in Toronto and I hope we can make a stop there. I put Jim in charge of picking a restaurant for dinner tomorrow night so he has been doing some internet research. My next post will include the highlights of our trip.

Fore!

 They say that practice makes perfect, but that proved not to be the case today. I did get Jim and Corey to go to the driving range with me last night (but only if I promised to buy them ice cream afterwards!) and we split a large bucket of balls. Jim quit soon after we got there because he was consistently hitting the ball out about 200 yards! Corey and I finished up the bucket, because we were inconsistent, to say the least. We must have been fairly entertaining because one of the guys who works at the driving range came out and sat to watch us! 

This morning I went to Twin Hills golf course with Sherri Taber and Jan Stanton. Let's just say that we got our money's worth and had more laughs than strokes (and we took a lot of strokes)! On one hole we each lost two balls-I lost one in the creek and one in the woods opposite the creek! I did get a bogey on one hole which I thought was amazing and never scored a 10 or more on a hole. It was hot on the course, but there were a good number of trees and my ball was like a tree magnet so I was in the shade a fair amount. We three went out for lunch after our golf outing and agreed to check our calendars to see if we could hit the links again next Friday. 

Tomorrow I am going to the Park Avenue Festival and in the evening Jim and I are going out to dinner with some friends. Corey's boss is getting married tomorrow and he asked Corey to be at the wedding/reception to "help out," whatever that means. He needs to be there from 10 Am to sometime in the evening. Hopefully, there will be good food for him to eat.

Just had a nice phone call from Tucker. He still plans to come home at the end of August which we are happy about. 

I've done a fair amount of knitting this week. I made a new dishcloth out of some of the leftover yarn I used for gift dishcloths and I finished the back of my cotton/lycra tank top and started on the front. Hopefully I will finish the top before the cold weather arrives!

I'll post an entry tomorrow before we go to Toronto on Sunday morning. I have my new Yankees baseball hat ready to go-it is pink!

Dog Days of Summer

Summer is here in full swing! Yesterday the temp hit 90 and today we're going for the record of 96 degrees! We must be approaching that mark right now in the mid-afternoon.

We've turned on the A/C and the house is comfortable, but it would be great to be at Jenny Lake where one could jump into to the lake and float to escape the heat. Bob and Joanie should be at camp by now-lucky them!

The above photos are from my 30 mile bike ride this morning, from Apollo Drive to Pittsford and back. The first photo is of the novice rowers from Pittsford High School, out for a work-out. Photo number two shows a couple of cabin cruisers heading for Pittsford. The last photo was taken by the mother of the little boy standing behind me. They were sitting on the rocks feeding the ducks when I asked the mother to take my picture.   I had a great ride and may try to organize a ride from Greece to Pittsford for some of my biking friends and colleagues. We could ride to Pittsford, eat lunch at Alladins Restaurant right on the canal and then head back to Greece. That might be a good thing to plan for the time right after we take Corey to SU and Jim is in Belgium (for work). 

Yesterday was August 1st and the first of any month means 2 things have to happen. One, the flower in my Beetle needs to be changed and two, the cross-stitched Snowman of the Month needs to be changed. I now have 2 minature yellow sunflowers in the Beetle and the August Snowman is standing in a field of sunflowers. I see a theme here!

We got some sad news yesterday and that is that Tom Ricci's wedding has been cancelled. We recieved a short letter from Tom's parents with that announcement, but no details. I'll have to ask around to see what has happened. I e-mailed Tucker with the news and am not sure what he will do about his plans to come home at the end of August.  

I went to the Greece Farmer's Market and got some peaches, blueberries and corn on the cob. We're all looking forward to the fresh corn with dinner tonight.

Tomorrow I am going to play golf with Sherri Taber-an annual summer escapade! Maybe I can get Jim and Corey to go hit a bucket of balls with me tonight so I can remember what it feels like to swing a club and hit a ball. Watch this blog for the highlights and low-lights from that outing.

Summer Fun

Ahh, the lazy days of summer.

I've been for 2 bike rides in the past couple of days. Yesterday I did a quick 12 miles and this morning I got 25 miles in. Both days were beautiful mornings for riding. 

Last night Jim and I went to Maw and Porges's. We took over a blueberry cobbler and our Iceland photos. We showed our photos and shared our cobbler in exchange for a colorful bouquet of flowers from Maw's cutting garden. Now I have beautiful flowers in the kitchen and living room. 

Corey is kayaking tonight and Jim is at track practice so I will eat solo tonight. I am trying a Turkey Club Quesidilla recipe in a Kraft foods cooking magazine that Maw gave to me. Instead of cooking the quesidillas on the grill, I'm going to use the George.

This afternoon I went out to lunch with Sherri Taber and Jean Tomasso. We went to the Pelican's Nest down by the river and had a good lunch and enjoyed the cooler breezes off the lake.

Tomorrow is August 1st. Yikes! I don't want to start thinking about school just yet!

Home Again

We had an uneventful trip home from Jenny Lake-it was especially easy for me because Jim drove the whole way freeing me up to knit on my pink tank top. We arrived home to find Corey in the middle of making dinner for us!! What a treat! He made Chicken Fijitas using 3 different colored peppers, Spanish rice, and guacamole dip with chips. It was excellent.

Our Iceland Slide show was a success. There were about 17 people there, not counting Jim and me and the slides lasted about 35 minutes. People asked good questions and several folks stayed after the show to get more in depth details. Jim and Sue Allen, along with Matt, Laura and baby Audrey came back to camp after the show for ice cream (Adirondack Bear Paw!!) and cookies. We will now put the photos up on Kodak Gallery and if you want to see them, let me know and I will have Kodak Gallery send you an invitation to view them.

I read a whole 300 page book while at camp this weekend! It was an easy read, the third book in a series with a knitting theme! Mom had gotten it out of the Corinth Library, but was going to return it when I told her that there were 2 other books before that one that she should read first. 

There were a couple of comments asking about what the rules were. Here they are:

1. Nobody at the house.

2. Don't be stupid (this one covers a lot!).