Happy Birthday MOM!!

Happy Birthday to my Mom who has a BIG birthday today that she would rather not talk about but it starts with an 8. My friends would never guess that's her age (they've told me so) because she looks so great. Here's to wishing you many, many, many more and to have yourself a wild and crazy day Mom!! But, take it easy on the sugar OK. . . ha! Love you!

Happy Birthday Dani!

Hope you had a great day! I'm sure Brayden was on his best behavior for your birthday! Too bad those Beav's couldn't win one in honor of your day, oh well, there's always next week!

It's a Jack jam . . .

Is it a celebrity? Is it a popular politician? Is somebody handing out free giveaways? What can it possibly be? It's got to be the longest line I have ever seen into a fast food drive through! All waiting to get their taste of the new restaurant in town. Jack in the Box! You can really see how pathetically desperate our city is for some new places to eat. Holy moly . . .there hasn't been this much excitement in town since they opened the McMenamins' Grand Lodge. You could probably almost drive to Hillsboro's Jack in the Box order, get your food, and be back in the Grove before you made it to the window. It's a really cool looking restaurant, I guess the design is from their drive in's in California, this is the only one in Oregon that looks this way. You can watch them cook your food while you are waiting in your car. The best thing is that they serve breakfast ALL DAY, no McDonald's 10:30am cutoff time. Well, we will see how long the hoopla lasts, I don't think anybodies burger is worth a line like that, but whatever.

R.I.P. City mourns . . .

I don't care about David Cassidy! . . .

"Hey Monica! . . . Come here . . . look who's on Oprah today" . . "Who?" . . "It's David Cassidy, didn't you grow up with him?". haha . . very funny,maybe . . . smart ass young teacher. Geezzz . . he looks . . cough ... cough . . mature! He has definately got a different hairline and Oh man . . he's had some facial work done. No . . definitely not . . David Cassidy was never one of my favorite poster boys. My bedroom walls were covered with posters of Davy Jones (The Monkees) now he was cute!

Also, Bobby Sherman (he was my favorite!),
and Sajid Kahn (from DakTari) Hey! anybody remember that show? He was the cute kid in the loin cloth that rode on the elephant. I really don't even want to know what they look like now. I would like to remember them as they were. I was totally destroyed for life when I recently saw Peter Frampton in a GEICO commercial and he looked like . . uuuuhhh elderly!!! I want to remember him with his big bushy blond long hair on the cover of his Frampton Live Album

but now all I can see is a guy with short balding grey hair that sings like him!!! It can't be possible!!!! How did this happen, they were just on my wall??

Sooo many pictures . . .

Hubby had a fantastic trip to Germany. He was able to do alot of sightseeing this trip as well as travel to visit a retiree from Leupold that lives in the city of Acosta, Italy. He ate lots of great food (in Germany they put gravy on everything he says) & drink (bier/wine) and now it's back to the gym and moderation for awhile. When he returned, the other 2 Leupold guys that he traveled with took all of the pictures and burned a CD, it has over 600 pictures on it. Dale really loved all the places they visited in Italy, they were close to Milan but never made it into the city. Someday I'd really like to make it to Rome, maybe if the Euro and the US dollar can ever get in sync again it might happen. This particular picture they took while hiking on one of their excursions in Italy, I thought it was really beautiful.

Bring on the produce! . . .

Now I'm not a farmer's daughter but I do know that right now is the BEST time for fresh produce around here. It's my favorite time of year for stopping by the local farmstands to pick up fresh peaches, sweet corn, tomatoes and peppers. The corn stand along TV hiway has caused daily near miss accidents as customers suddenly slam on their brakes to whip into the parking lot to check out the flatbed heaped with the beautiful sweet stuff. It's funny to watch how people pick out their corn, some smell it, some squeeze it, some pull down the husk and just take a peek at the kernels. I just buy the ones that look fat, seems to work for me ;0), I absolutely love fresh peaches. You can never get tree ripe fresh ones at the store, they are always hard as a rock and they just don't have the same flavor even after you let them sit out and get soft. My mother-in-law makes the best canned peaches (I'm not a canner), so I'm gonna have to make a deal with her, I buy and you can . . pretty pleeeezzz, sounds fair to me! This year in our backyard vegetable garden we planted yellow plum tomatoes and some romas. They got a late start but are loaded now, we pick a few ripe ones every night. Can't seem to ever save enough to make anything, we keep munching on them just like on the farm.