Freedom Trail

I estimated that I walked between 20 to 25 miles over the 4th of July weekend. Friday and Saturday I spent five hours each day walking The Freedom Trail, Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall, along the Charles River, Little Italy, areas with local shops and also the chain stores. Each evening we also walked about and scouted where to eat dinner. I was so impressed on how clean and safe Boston was. Tomorrow, I’ll tell you just how safe it really is.

I'm not sure if it was because it was the 4th, there were so many flag displays around the city.

I loved this topiary in the front yard of a private home.
There are so many statues in the city. Paul Reeve was my favorite.

Like the picture from my NYC trip, I wish I had a display case like this in my hometown. I hate to admit, my lunch on Saturday came out of this case.

A picture from my favorite store. I'm keeping track of all the states I've been into an Antropologie. To date; NY, Nevada, Pennsylvania, California and now Massachusetts. It won't be long I'll be adding Georgia. I didn't buy anything in MA thou.

Boston is a great city, if anyone plans on going I can give them some travel tips

Boston Fireworks

We spent the long weekend in Boston.

We watched the fireworks from the 38th floor of this building. We were told it was the best vantage point in the city. There was a radio on the balcony so we could hear the Boston Pops playing .

The fireworks went off a barge in the Charles River. There were over 15,000 shells and the display took 2,800 man hours to produce.

As much as we enjoy watching fireworks, the highlight of our evening was the flyover of two F-15’s at the end of the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner. They flew right down the Charles River, off to our right, at just about the same height as the balcony. Look at the beautiful color of the sunset. There was also a Blimp in the air.
This will be one July 4th I will always remember.

Happy Birthday

A Happy 232rd Birthday to the US of A.

Hope this July 4th weekend you will celebrate our freedom and independence and keep in mind those that are still fighting for our country.

Mother Daughter Reunion

Mom & Lilpoppy spent the last 24 hours visiting. Just prior to them leaving yesterday afternoon, we did a mini photo shoot. I wanted a three generation picture. Looking thru the shots, I don’t think we have one that I like.

There were some good mother daughter shots.

I hate being on the other side of the camera.

I'm so fortunate others will humor me when I'm behind the camera.

Amie left with them. They brought her to the airport for her flight back to LA. Thankfully in 29 days, not that I'm counting, I'll be meeting up with her in Atlanta.

Thanks for coming to visit and for allowing me to get your picture.

Cooking vs Apron

It’s really about the apron, an apron from Anthropologie no less, than it is about the cooking.

Britt's skills have come a long way since she first came to our kitchen some 10 years ago. She was in charge of dessert last night. (Amie's last dinner at home before traveling back to LA.) She prepared and served strawberries with biscuits and cream and/or her famous brownies with cream cheese frosting. Great going Britt!

High School Graduation Weekend

Vegetarian Dinner

Amie requested corn-on-the-cob and salt potatoes for dinner. Since she doesn’t eat much meat I decided to have a vegetarian dinner. I stopped at an Amish farm stand on my drive home & bought peas. I bought 2 bags at $1 each. It took me FOREVER to shuck those peas. I will never do that again.

What started out as a large pile ended up a very small bowl. Thank goodness Mick doesn’t like peas because there is not enough for everyone.
We have a local graduation party tonight & then Z’s party tomorrow. Let the fun begin!