Month: June 2021

Monday was Flag Day. Happy Flag Day!

Turns out, Flag Day is also Pop’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Pop!

A month in the life of our hops (video):

This week, we went to Katie and Brad’s for dinner. I put on my going-out clothes:

They have a four-story townhouse downtown with a ridiculous rooftop deck:

Even better than their deck is their dog, Poppy:

I love Poppy!

It’s popsicle season:

Strawberries for dessert:

Still missing teeth:

Father’s Day Sunshine Muffins:

Going paddle-boarding:

Father’s Day dinner – farro bowl with mushrooms, spinach, and tofu:

And, coconut custard pie:

The first strawberries of the season arrived this week:

I have another loose tooth. Right next to the missing tooth:

I discovered this week that I have outgrown my fish shirt, a realization that made me irrationally angry.

Making chocolate-chip beer bread:

Delicious. And messy:

I helped the Bigs install the last two privacy panels/blackberry trellises this weekend. Now we just need to get some blackberries:

In addition to the first strawberries of the season, we went for our first paddle board as well:

I still get towed upstream:

but on the way back, it’s all me:

By the time Sunday afternoon rolled around, I was exhausted, so I relaxed with some story podcasts while the Bigs did yard work:

Some of our food from the week. Pasta della California:

“Butter” “chicken” with Indian rice:

Spicy miso portobello burgers with carrot slaw, cucumber salad, and asian guacamole with truffle salt cabbage salad:

Now that I am a big swimmer, I need to work on my lats.

Every year around this time, we ride up Mackenzie Pass to the Castle of Dragons. I chose this riding attire.

It was not as sunny and warm as we thought it would be and I quickly bundled up.

By the time we got to the castle, we were cold and wet and in no mood to look for the dragon – unless he wanted to warm our frozen digits with his fiery breath.

If you look closely you can see moisture on my glasses. Wet. Very cold, pretty wet, but I didn’t complain at all. I just kept riding.

And I made it back to the car after…

riding 15 miles!

My day was not done, though. I had planting to do. I put some gerbera daisies

and petunias in for some color.

On Sunday, I met Issac for a ride on ELV and some gnome counting.

We stopped by the ‘flying chicken’ too.

Part I of Phase 3 of the Great Wall got installed this week. Soon there will be blackberries growing up the ‘cattle panel’ (metal mesh).

This week we tried grilled portabello burgers topped with grilled pineapple and sweet and spicy Brussels sprouts. This meal was ‘not my favorite’ as I like to say.

Strangely, I did love our other Brussels sprouts dish this week: Brussels sprout and apple salad.