Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Happy Belated Fourth of July!

We had a LOVELY Fourth of July weekend - hope you did too!
My friend, Donna, made this patriotic (and delicious!) dessert for our dinner.
But before the Fourth, Rilla came up and we headed up on Thursday. On Friday, we took a drive down a new gravel road and saw some neat sites...

A really cool old tree!
And this grasshopper came along for the ride on our windshield for a little while..

We also saw two sets of mother and baby deer while out driving - the babies were very small with lots of spots - unfortunately, no pictures!
Meanwhile, Tom washed and compounded his tractor, hoping for great results...

My cousin gave me her old dishes with roosters on them, so Rilla helped me reorganize my cabinets - it's so good to have someone tall around besides Tom!
Our neighbor, Donna and Raymond drove up on Friday to join us. Raymond settled right in...
Donna, Rilla and I took a short walk to gather some wildflowers for our table

On Saturday, the boys played golf, and we headed over to West Jefferson for Christmas in July. It was really crowded, but we managed to find a couple of fun things for the house. First, this rooster for the porch (he's much less scary looking in person!)

And this cute sketch of roosters called "The Boys" by a local artist...

After we all got back home, we had the traditional chicken barbecue. Raymond insisted that the grill be FULL and it was - 12 leg quarters and a half dozen breasts!





and here's out dinner table and view for the Fourth - pretty nice, huh?


And here are the group shots - first, the girls....
And the boys...

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Her highness - the grandbaby...

We had a visit from Her Highness, Savannah, this past weekend. Even though we weren't at the Roost, I had to post a few pictures!

PawPaw helped her decorate the door...

Auntie Anne watched cartoons with her...

And PawPaw also helped her with her new puzzle...


And I couldn't resist. Suzie had a couple of skin tags taken off. She looks really traumatized by the cone, doesn't she?