July book club

Kathy decided to take advantage of all the good fresh summer vegetables for our lunch. 

That is purple hull pea hummus in the back there. Whipped goat cheese with fig preserves and pistachios in front.  

Look at this sweet table. 

All veggies and fruit. 

My beautiful plate 

We discussed the book Broken Country. Very good but also sad. 

Gorgeous linen from Greece. 

Y’all won’t believe this. Key Lime pie ice cream. You mis vanilla ice cream with a whole Key Lime Pie and mix and refreeze. Crust and all. Decadent chocolate with pistachio filling plus tiny cream puffs. Lord have mercy. 

Met a little friend at the pool. 

Look at that color. 

I should probably be ashamed of this but it was so good. I had leftover chicken so I  made chicken and rice casserole the old fashioned way, with cream of chicken soup. 

Birthday festival.

Birthday happy hour with Book Club. Only took one picture. Shared celebration with Priscilla. Got some lovely cards and gifts. 

But took a picture of this hare Kathy gave me in honor of the book we enjoyed. 

Pool day with Lucy Friday. 

Pool day with Amy2. She brought donut holes and colaches. 

Tiara I wore to church. So many smiles and well wishes 

Met in town kids for lunch. 

Sophie brought the centerpiece. I trained her well. 

Little Tokyo. Got my favorite. 

Patricks always bring flowers. 

Sophie shared garden bounty. 

Backyard

While feeding my poor hot goldfish , I noticed this little fluffy white confection. 

One of my favorite midsummer backyard bouquets. 

They are always at their peak at the same time. 

I like to put them in this pottery vase that Kathy M. gave me. 

Score

Amy2 and I went to 3 fruit stands looking for okra. Didn’t find any that looked good. But I did get lady peas, speckled butter beans and baby limas. Also a gorgeous eggplant, bargain bag of squash and a Chilton county peach. 

Mushrooms!

Not super impressive but looks like a cauliflower on a stick. 

Little red one

All were tiny but trying hard. 

Wild strawberry. I remember as a kid trying to sweeten and eat these. Not good. 

This was someone’s dinner. 

These looked like toasted marshmallows. 

Great day at church. Rob was back in the pulpit for Pride Sunday. As always , made me laugh and cry. 

Nailed it with pork stir fry. 

First watermelon of the season. Very good. 

Garden tour

So…I picked up Mary Grace to go help at church with the Gayrage sale. They had lots of help and really didn’t need us. We walked around and then headed to Sophie and Paul’s house. 

The Fondren Bottle Tree garden tour was also today. S&P were number 23!

Cute side yard welcomed us. 

MG was ready for the hot weather. 

Welcoming tables with peppers holding down the flyers. 

I enjoyed seeing her using Candy’s things. 

Candy loved her little cityscapes. 

Sunflowers are crazy big. 

Not sure how they can cut them!

Onions harvested and set to cure. Then we set off to cool off at Tuk Tuk Boom. 

June Book Club

First a tour of the yard at Sue’s.

It was all so beautiful. These pictures don’t capture it. 

Even the garden was pretty. 

Even the appetizers were color coordinated. 

Table was lovely. 

Food was healthy and good. 

Ice cream with lavender topping.