We have had a delightful time celebrating America's birthday with a five day weekend.
Our Mullein is also pretty happy. It's about 7 feet tall and gorgeous. We're not entirely sure how we got it. We nearly pulled it out this spring thinking it was a weed, but we're glad we thought twice about it. You can see it has little bell shaped flowers.
On Thursday we went to Tacoma for a little art tour. There were several highlights, but the museum of glass was way up there. They have a "hot studio" with stadium seating so you can watch them make glass sculpture right before your eyes. It took a well organized team of four artists to make one very cute little glass elephant.
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| Hot Studio |
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| Glass sculpture on the way to the glass museum. |
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| Hey! Look over there....are those cupcakes? |
There was also a cupcake bakery with only cupcakes. Fabulous ones at that! There was a steady stream of people getting their sugar fix ourselves included.
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| "Why yes, these are cupcakes!" |
Yesterday, I did it! I made my very first home made pie and pie crust. It's chocolate crust, with chocolate and cherry filling. I was a little unsure how it would turn out...but it was pretty darned good. That said, I don't know how grandma did it. It took ALL DAY to make this one little pie. Sure am happy folks liked it.
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| Chocolate Cherry Pie |
We enjoyed it with 7 friends who came over for grilling (on our new grill!) and games. Now we're off to see the Aquasoxs baseball and fireworks out of centerfield.
Happy Birthday!
