Monday, July 4, 2011

Happy 235th Birthday America!

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.
Hot Studio
Glass sculpture on the way to the glass museum. 

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.

"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.
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!

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