We enjoyed a beautiful, although hot Independence Day. It started on July 3rd in the evening at the Gardens of the World. Maddie, Max and I listened to the Air Force Band of the Golden west play a patriotic set and also celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Air Force. Both Maddie and I were dressed in Air Force T-shirts and while we waited for the band to start, someone from the Ventura County Newspaper took our picture. It must of been b/c both the children were glued to their gameboys waiting for the concert to begin! We must really be Conejo Valley residents now that they want to put our picture in the newspaper. The concert was great, free and the garden's of the world are beautiful. Who would have thought that tucked right off of TO Blvd., such a beautiful place existed! So far we haven't seen ourselves in the paper yet. I am hoping it happens and certain teens are hoping it does not! Funny how some people like the spotlight and other's do not! I think teen thought it would be so incredible uncool to be seen at the patriotic concert, but I think she actaully had a good time.
The fourth began with, sleeping late, watering plants and then a small shopping trip for Maddie and Mom to KOhls'. After that we came home and headed out to the pool for an hour. Much fun was had by all. Our swimming star, Maddie was beaten by Mom in backstroke and Dad in freestyle. 8-( She is convinced that she now needs to do some laps or something b/c she used to be able to beat us both! I must say that my rear and butt are hurting today from the swimming. We came home and I began working on the feast in honor of America. We had surf and turf, a spicy non-mayonnaise potato salad, bean salad, and corn on the cob. The only problem was that the grill gave out in the middle of cooking the turf. But we stuck it in the broiler and it turned out fine. After dinner, we met up with our neighbors up the street, Max's very good friend Chase and his parents and we climbed the mountain across from Peppertree to watch the fireworks there. We could see the mall fireworks and much to our surprise, someone in Newbury Park was lighting the fireworks right on the street below us. We had a great view of the fireworks and did not have to battle with any traffic, which is really nice when your poor hubby has to go to work the next day! The guys from down the street came over and we all ate red, white and blue cake. I tried a new one this year with ice cream on the outside inside of icing. It turned out great and now my friend thinks that I am a gourmand. She kept asking me, "How'd ya get the ice cream on there?" And saying "That had to be really hard!" It took a little patience and fast work, but it was really easy to do and tasted pretty good, if I must say so myself. We had a nice time.
We have been busy. I had been playing too much when summer first started so last week I had a huge to do list. I got most of it done. But, now I am on to the getting ready for vacation to do list.
Applied for a job. We'll see what happens with that. Am ambivalent about the whole back to work thing. Anyway, once I return to CA from the vacation then I'll get down to seriously trying to find something.
Vacation should be busy. A lot of people to see and visit with. I am blessed to have so many people who are close to me.
Maddie has her classes today ... stained glass and volleyball. Don said yesterday after hearing her rave about the class "We have no room in our garage for a stained glass studio." He seemed sort of sad or wistful (can a man seem wistful?) when he said it, almost as if he would actually like us to be able to do stained glass in the garage. Hmm, maybe ...
Anyway, much to do ... so toodles for now. So Cal Trixie
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