We do
have an irrigation system which keeps our yard and plantings green when the
rain doesn’t do the job. Our back yard
lawn area is allowed to be ‘au natural’ as we don’t want to use chemicals any
more than necessary. In addition, we
want that big Oak tree at the right to thrive…and our arborist warned us that
chemicals on the lawn could negatively impact that big tree.
I haven’t
even been creating very many ‘novelty egg breakfasts’, i.e. eggs on top of
something other than potatoes, bread or similar morning meal items. In this case however, I ‘had to’ finish off
some grouper filets that were left over from one of Laurie’s recent dinners in
a local restaurant. So, I warmed them up
in a frying pan, melted shredded sharp cheddar cheese on them, added a couple
of over easy eggs on top and then sprinkled the conglomeration with a bit of
Tabasco. Yum!
Fortunately,
our neighbors living in the new home to the right of our home like to entertain and they
decided to have a Labor Day Party! They
even had canopies erected to protect the crowd from the sun and a number of fans
operating to keep us cool…
Our host
Mike (on the right) had these steamers working as he prepared the main meal for
the group…14 friends and neighbors in total.
Mark, at the left in this photo lives on the other side of Mike and his
wife Sherry. Mike and Sherry are from
Rochester New York, while Mark and his wife Sally, moved here from Michigan.
It was
quite the varied group career wise… In addition to Laurie and me, the group
included a forestry consultant, teachers, a corporate pilot, veterinarians,
homemakers and more.
One of
Mike and Sherry’s guests showed up “riding in” his personal hobby. “Boy’s toys” do tend have a little more growth with age don’t they!? Sherry was very
happy when she was taken for a ride in this classic Corvette!
OK…it’s
time for me to own up to a major omission (failure) on my part! In this photo, everyone was drinking, talking
and snacking. My failure was that
despite having my camera in hand, I failed to take pictures of either the
appetizers/snacks or the main feast!
The
appetizers/snacks varied from dips and chips (including a great buffalo chicken
dip) nuts, candy, cheese crisps, to nachos, guacamole, etc. There was a whole refrigerator full of beer... Mike and Sherry did a fine ‘boil’ for the group's entrée! It included shrimp, potatoes, corn and
andouille sausage. Good food!
Following
the meal, the ladies retired to the living room/family room to chat and then to the dining room table to play Five Crown cards. The guys first moved out to the screened porch to discuss retirement and then headed
upstairs to watch some sports in Mike’s man cave.
Eventually
we all moved back outdoors to the front of the garage in the original party
place… Although you may have noticed this stack of blocks in earlier photos, it
was pretty much ignored until after dinner and the ladies card game.
That was when we started playing “Jenga” in earnest! If you’ve never played Jenga, the object is
to remove blocks and re-stack them on top of the pile without the whole thing
collapsing. We got up to 30 levels
before the stack fell over while Laurie was playing the game. (Both Laurie and
I tensed up while playing the game…too much pressure for us! Retirement is hard!)
To learn
more about Jenga, go to http://www.jenga.com/about.php.
Just
click on any of the photos to enlarge them…
Thanks
for stopping by for a visit!
Take
Care, Big Daddy Dave
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