The 4th of July!!!!!

  This year we got our act together and had a little 4th of July get together in our new outdoor living room furnished with Dave's collection of water ski chairs and the new pub table etc.  We got some comfy cushions for the chairs and even put out the plastic garage we had for the kids wedding last year!!!  Works out great nice place to hang.

We had invited our good friends Bob and Jo Lynn. Bob is the webmaster here and has made me so successful with the internet!!!yea Bobbbie!!!!  My cousin and his wife John and Kim and Kim's sister Stacey, My parents Marge and Jack and my good friend from the Sewing Guild Carolyn and her husband Allen.  so we had a crew!!!  Dave smoked beef short ribs, 8 racks of back pork ribs and 16 chicken thighs, yummmm, they were out of this world.  To start with we smoked olives and artichokes and shrimp, very good.  Amazing what a bit of smoke does to Italian olives.  Then we had a cornbread salad that was really wonderful, Swedish style potato salad and purple hulled peas fresh from Arkansas made creole style.  And for dessert we had peanut pie, lemon ice cream pie and bars from Clasens German bakery, all very good.  we were stuffed.

It was a warm wonderful day and we all had a great visit and plenty to eat.  Today is Monday and it rained half the night and is warm, humid and cloudy, thank goodness we're not boating or camping, we had plenty of years at Camp Damp!!!!  Today is suppose to be a sewing day but we had to run errands and so the day slips by, still have to walk the dogs between the drops.

I really don't like the 4th of July  time of the summer as it means summer is half done and now it just flies by!!!  I much prefer long, hot summers.

Enjoy the rest of the summer and happy sewing!!!!!