Yay! Joe and Kathie and Josh came up on Saturday afternoon, and we "christened" (with fire) the gas grill that they gave us for a housewarming gift. I had bought big sirloin steaks, and made a pot of Santa Maria Beans; we had a couple of fine little salad sides to accompany the meal and plenty of local bakery Francese bread (which makes wonderful leftovers sandwiches, too, as we found out this noon!) They brought a lovely bottle of Merlot from Santa Ynez Valley, to accompany the meal, and we finished it off with fresh peach ice cream. (There you go, foodies.) It was a lovely, balmy full-moon evening, and we had a great time helping Josh fly his old-fashioned balsa-wood airplane that Grandpa John got for him. I could not conquer the "add image" process on this blogger -- it was taking over an hour to upload -- so instead I infested your inboxes with jpegs -- but at least you got photos somehow. (Jimma, I hope you enjoyed the Weisse-Blau picnic tablecloth!)
Sunday morning we went to church, did a bit of shopping, and then stopped at Scopazzi's for a late lunch on their verandah, to celebrate the fact that John's gout is much improved.
Everywhere we go in this valley, we run into people we know: at K-Mart after church, our closest neighbors, Teresa and Ted, chatted with us for a while; at Scopazzi's, the Bracken Brae treasurer, dear Lynn Newsome, was lunching with friends and waved us over to meet them.... I love village life!
4 comments:
alright, woman, next we work on images. For starters, you can't upload the full-res image. I'll be calling you this weekend to explain. Will send charts and diagrams as well :-)
Hey hey Mama,
I think a Mountain BBQ should be accompanied by fine music, specifically "Mountain Jam" by the Allman Brothers!
Love,
Trees
We love village life too Mom! Ours just has an Italian accent....but sounds pretty similar, peacefulnesswise and communitywise...
xxx
No music yet, but John's working on the system; it should be in place in another week or so (we miss our CDs and NPR!) Hey hey, Teri: no Allman Bro's, how retro is that? .... Kathleen dear, please do send me a written explanation of how to upload photos to the blog -- I'm down with printouts but don't learn much via oral instruction. But would love to chat with you on the weekend!
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