The House of Italy

Today Dennis & I, Mom, and Angie & Gary went to Balboa Park for the Italy open house. We examined the map of Italy and Sicily to locate the cities where our relatives were from. Afterwards, we visited the other houses in Balboa Park and ate an Italian sandwich (either sausage or meatball) in the park. Mom had her picture taken in front of Poland, where her relatives came from.

 

Dessert

Who else has a husband that can and will make a dessert like this one: a crepe filled with ice cream and topped with whipped cream and berries. Low fat, of course.

Movie Tuesday

After a week's hiatus, we went to the movies today and saw 42, about the life and career of baseball player Jackie Robinson. He had to go through a lot of discrimination to play baseball but ended up a sports hero. Very good movie. We took Uncle Johnny to see this movie because he had actually seen Jackie Robinson play football at UCLA.

Squirrel-Lee

This little guy was standing at the door just like this for about 5 minutes. I took a whole bunch of photos and he didn't move a muscle. Weird.

Boston Marathon

I didn't feel like posting anything yesterday while the horrific events were going on at the Boston Marathon, but neither do I want to just let it pass without saying anything. It's horrible. I can't understand how anyone could do like that. It's disheartening, depressing. I'm so sorry for all who were affected by the bombing in Boston.

Big Boy Restaurant Strawberry Pie

This was a post on Facebook from my friend Maureen Barte:

Local & Sweet STRAWBERRIES are here! Do you remember BigBoy Resturant? Here's the recipe for BigBoy Strawberry Pie:

2 tbsp. cornstarch
1 c. sugar
1 c. water
1/2 pkg. strawberry gelatin
1 baked 9 inch pie shell, cooled
Whipped topping

Blend together cornstarch and sugar. Combine in saucepan with water. Cook, stirring until thick 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add gelatin. Stir until dissolves.
Mix berries in gelatin before placing in pie shell. Pour into pie shell
let chill 2 or 3 hours. Garnish with whipped topping. ENJOY!!!

Breezeway

We're finally getting a door in the breezeway so we can go into the cattery from the breezeway instead of having to walk through the house and around. It isn't finished yet.

Flash

I just wrote an entry in Flash's blog. If you're interested in his progress, take a look. http://flashthebordercollie.blogspot.com.

Movie Tuesday

Today we saw The Call with Halle Barry starring as a 911 operator who gets a call from an abducted teenage girl and then .... Well, it's a thriller and I don't want to ruin it for you.

Have to admit, we were thrilled and a little scared, too. 

Deer

Wow, we were sitting on the sofa around 7 tonight when a deer ran into our yard above the barbecue. I'm pretty sure she wasn't volunteering for dinner as she kept right on going.

Lost Cat

A couple of days ago, Precious II wouldn't come in at night. She kept playing on top of the hill behind the koi pond, but wouldn't come down when we called her. For the next two days, we called her but -- no cat. Then last evening she just wandered into the yard, hunting birds. I snatched her up and put her in the cat house overnight. This morning, she went out with the other cats but, again, tonight she didn't appear when the other cats were being put up. Then, around 6 p.m. she came  hunting birds again. So I caught her and she is now safe and sound in the cat house. I guess this is the new norm for her.

Snake!

Tuesday Homero killed a baby rattler--the first this year.

Movie Tuesday

Today's movie was Olympus has Fallen starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman. The premise of the story is that a North Korean terrorist brings an army of his countrymen to take down the White House in order to gain aims that I'm not going to tell you and ruin the story. I will tell you that they really made a mess of the White House and I was pretty upset about it. It really was an action thriller, as advertised, and I didn't fall asleep.