Yes, it’s the moon AND fireworks at the same time. Columbus Ohio with the family last week for the gigantic fireworks display. We had a nice evening together.
it’s the annual effort to improve my fireworks photography.
And I am celebrating another year with my Fourth of July birthday today.
Happy Birthday to me.
Four Deflated Snowmen Found on July First.
Yes, it felt like 100 degrees in this heat wave.
At a high school grad party held at North Park Ice Rink.
No ice today.
Sun and blue sky Easter Monday in Berlin. No snow today. A national holiday.
When I saw MESSY was the WordPress Daily Prompt for today, I had to respond.
From the archives
Aftermath of Christmas Cookie Decorating in Ohio. The colored sugar is green mixed with red.
It might even be in the negative column for nutrition. Those maraschino cherries alone, with the preservatives and dye, could do you in but I remember this colorful combination from childhood. Bright green lime, white pears, red cherries. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon to cut the intense sweetness!
My mother always made this Christmas Jello. She’d buy a large green labeled can of Bartlett pear halves. She’d put a cherry in each indentation and hope they didn’t float away.
I don’t even know anyone who makes Jello anymore. Well, maybe a strawberry pretzel salad at a shower or potluck or picnic buffet?
For Easter she’d put together the yellow lemon Jello with grated carrots and a can of crushed pineapple to which she added a pinch of salt.
Because the green, white and red one reminded me of my growing up, I had my granddaughter Anna help put it together and it graced our Christmas dinner table at my son and daughter-in-law’s home.
Ascend.
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Guess they didn’t look like food to him? When he placed a gummi pineapple shape on the gingerbread house he said “I put on the vegetable.”
Laura whipped up some royal icing and put this kit together. Charlie (almost 2 1/2) helped.
Last night I helped Maura put together a gingerbread Starbucks Cafe. It collapsed and then we fortified it and propped it with glassware and coffee mugs. The second load of frosting worked like glue. Unfortunately, I didn’t photograph it.
Over the years, my friend Joanne has baked and decorated elaborate gingerbread houses from scratch. I baked a Church one year (1987) with melted lifesavers for stained glass windows and never again. I used to watch eager third graders make little graham cracker houses on empty milk cartons at school. Helped fish out milk cartons and rinse them, drain on a rack.
Little gingerbread houses appeal to me but I need to practice. Charlie loved the result!
The Columbus City Ballet School Production- Saturday December 9th
Maura was in two dances The Tea Dance and The Russian Dance. A couple of the moms helped me out as Maura’s mom was with her siblings at a swim meet. Suzanne watched her while I ran to get lunch after the morning dress rehearsal and I’d left the makeup bag on the kitchen counter so Shelly added the finishing touches to Maura’s stage look. 
Annelise and Elena with their mom Aunt Lala and Maura 
What a fun day. Great performances by all. Thanks to Shir Lee Wu, Artistic Director of the Columbus City Ballet School.
Good to be alive at sixty-five.
Happy Medicare card to me. I can get that free bus pass now.
My sister and I are in Columbus OH on the big birthday eve after our family gatherings and driving over 1700 miles.
Laura and James hosting a July 4th birthday celebration for me tomorrow.
Here’s a photo collage with some of my favorite things- my family, pignoli, fireworks, coffee ice cream, raspberries, Zeke’s coffee, reading books, teapots, knitting and sock monkeys. Oh yes, a few shots of me throughout the years.
