The appoint was at 2:30. And the malaise of summer has set in.
Its really not malaise in a traditional sense. It is stay up late and sleep in late and do something that you couldn't do during the school year. So. lunch was not eaten before the appointment. When I arrived in Modesto in the industrial part, the East side of Kansas Avenue, I saw numerous spots to have a bite while they worked on my car. The problem.. I had only two dollars in my pocket. Surely there must be an ATM around. Well.. no. The closest thing that resembles an ATM as in a grocery store where you bought something and got change back. So said the Viet pho restaurant and of course they don't take credit cards.. only cash.
A half a block a head was the familiar green circle with the lady in it. Starbucks. I have a card with some Starbucks credit on it. Wahooo!
I bought a chicken cobb sandwich and a iced passion fruit drink.. yum. I know that Pete's is better. But sometimes it pays to have a Starbuck card with a little dough on it..
Today it saved me. Later I discovered that the Cheveron station another block down had an ATM.. so much for the exotic.
: ) Pat
Monday, July 13, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
The outcome of the sauce
The Asian Plum sauce was an interesting success in canning.. well sort of.
After combining the materials for this sauce and bringing it to a boil before adding the plums the sauce had to cook in an non reactive pot. I had guessed right that a 6 quart pot would be just the thing.
The jalapanos (2) had a real kick to them. I had forgotten the the fresher they are the more powerful they could be. I cut into them without the precautions of gloves and blistering the skins. I knew that the hottest part of the chili was in the seeds and the veins. In removing them I choked I coughed and I forgot the most important thing.. don't touch any of the your soft tissues around your mouth or your nose. My nose started to run so I touched it.. I fet the burn for more than two hours.
As it cooked down for two hours at a simmer, the house filled with the smell of onions, garlic and especially 5 spice powder. By the time it was ready to get into the jars, it had boiled down to fill only 5 half pint containers. The sauce is tasty and has that piquant sweet and sour combination that is so hard to get without such steps.
Overall it was worth it. I think that remembering good pepper safety would have made the experience more comfortable.
Pat
After combining the materials for this sauce and bringing it to a boil before adding the plums the sauce had to cook in an non reactive pot. I had guessed right that a 6 quart pot would be just the thing.
The jalapanos (2) had a real kick to them. I had forgotten the the fresher they are the more powerful they could be. I cut into them without the precautions of gloves and blistering the skins. I knew that the hottest part of the chili was in the seeds and the veins. In removing them I choked I coughed and I forgot the most important thing.. don't touch any of the your soft tissues around your mouth or your nose. My nose started to run so I touched it.. I fet the burn for more than two hours.
As it cooked down for two hours at a simmer, the house filled with the smell of onions, garlic and especially 5 spice powder. By the time it was ready to get into the jars, it had boiled down to fill only 5 half pint containers. The sauce is tasty and has that piquant sweet and sour combination that is so hard to get without such steps.
Overall it was worth it. I think that remembering good pepper safety would have made the experience more comfortable.
Pat
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Asian Plum Sauce to Can or Jar
This is today's canning project.. the last of the plums.
ASIAN PLUM SAUCE
4 lbs of plums about 10 cupa
2 Cup Packed Brown Sugar
1 Cup Granulated Sugar
1 Cup Cider Vinegar
3/4 finely chopped Onion
2 tbs of Mustard Seed
1 Tbs of 5 spice powder
4 TBS of Finely chopped chiles
1 TBS of Salt
3 Cloves of garlic minced fine
1 inch of fresh ginger diced fine
_____________
Pit and chop plums
combine sugars, vinegar mustard seed 5 spice powder, chile peppers, salt and garlic
Bring all but the plums to a rolling boil, add plums, cook simmering for two hours place in 6, 1/2 pint jars water bath boil with two inches of water over for 10 minutes.
use for dipping sauce, or last minute sauce on ribs.. etc.
Looks like fun?
: ) Pat
ASIAN PLUM SAUCE
4 lbs of plums about 10 cupa
2 Cup Packed Brown Sugar
1 Cup Granulated Sugar
1 Cup Cider Vinegar
3/4 finely chopped Onion
2 tbs of Mustard Seed
1 Tbs of 5 spice powder
4 TBS of Finely chopped chiles
1 TBS of Salt
3 Cloves of garlic minced fine
1 inch of fresh ginger diced fine
_____________
Pit and chop plums
combine sugars, vinegar mustard seed 5 spice powder, chile peppers, salt and garlic
Bring all but the plums to a rolling boil, add plums, cook simmering for two hours place in 6, 1/2 pint jars water bath boil with two inches of water over for 10 minutes.
use for dipping sauce, or last minute sauce on ribs.. etc.
Looks like fun?
: ) Pat
Sunday, July 5, 2009
The New Apple Toy
My oh My
The new Iphone is hot.
What it is not.. it doesn't come with instructions. This is the one thing that drives Heather crazy.. and also me at the begining. The interface is supposed to be so complete that it is intuitive.. well not exactly.. as the old ad would say,
I left the Apple store with my new phone ready to work. I even made a call right out of the box.. almost. But for some odd reason, probably tied to my not completely understanding the interface, I got the new phone off to speaking DANISH. All the menu commands, all the program instructions.. almost everything was written in a language that I could not even begin to understand even with my Romantic language exposure. So how to fix it? I went on line and looked at how to solve it. Everywhere I went it said go to settings and choose international and from international choose the language. This left the the hanging question, "How do you say international in the language that this device is stuck in?
Eventually I came down to find something that was close to international in the settings panel and about half way down was able to change the language to US English and son of gun the thing worked! It was not going to be a fancy brick toy after all.
With this information I was able to get in my internet account and yahoo mail translated to and from pac bell dot net. And so the oddesy began. The interesting thing about the whole platform in the beginning was the disappearance of the barrier between mobile calls and the internet. Mobile calls are run on text messaging (with the new generations) and internet messaging is through email. The interesting concept is when a text messsage becomes an email pulled off the air and referenced with a web page that is collected with the cell phone (the Iphone is hardly a cell phone but from past understandings and usefulness it may serve this purpose). The metaphor changes when a device is able to do both. Throw in the abilty to be an Ipod (although limited by its size) The abilty to take credible photos and movies and to move them into an editting program such as Iphoto or Imovie.. you have really changed the concept.
I am very impressed with its abilty to pick up internet Wifis and use them when permitted. This would be pretty important to slower phones. It dosen't seem particularly slow in my environments becuase of the built in speed. I also am used to being in slower iternet environments having lived through 24K dial up.
It does facebook. It does flickr. It can even read my blog. I like the abilty to make pages bigger with a very sensitive keyboard. I learned the thumb and forefinger pinch move easily. I am still a little slow with when you tap and when you double tap. I like moving the pages the Tom Cruise.
I can see why people are spending their lives looking down and touch keyboarding.
Linzi recommeneded a couple of good "Apps" one is the Bart one for the Bay Area Rapid Transit schedule and Pandora that lets you set up an individual radio station. Both are great. I saw an add for the AAA discount App. It lets you know the merchants in any given area that will honor your AAA card for discounts. Its free too.
Its amazing how much more you can text with a decent keyboard. I was watching "THE" Wimbledon mens final today and the adds for the new Plam Pre looked cool. One problem, their keybord is limited to those darn little buttons. I like the abilty to turn it on its side and click away. I need to learn how to copy and paste.
The girls are learning from each other. One shared with the other about when the keys are shaking they can me re arranged. I have experienced that on the phone but did not know what precipitated the keys to start to shake.
I wish you all a new Iphone.. they are wonderful
: ) Pat
The new Iphone is hot.
What it is not.. it doesn't come with instructions. This is the one thing that drives Heather crazy.. and also me at the begining. The interface is supposed to be so complete that it is intuitive.. well not exactly.. as the old ad would say,
I left the Apple store with my new phone ready to work. I even made a call right out of the box.. almost. But for some odd reason, probably tied to my not completely understanding the interface, I got the new phone off to speaking DANISH. All the menu commands, all the program instructions.. almost everything was written in a language that I could not even begin to understand even with my Romantic language exposure. So how to fix it? I went on line and looked at how to solve it. Everywhere I went it said go to settings and choose international and from international choose the language. This left the the hanging question, "How do you say international in the language that this device is stuck in?
Eventually I came down to find something that was close to international in the settings panel and about half way down was able to change the language to US English and son of gun the thing worked! It was not going to be a fancy brick toy after all.
With this information I was able to get in my internet account and yahoo mail translated to and from pac bell dot net. And so the oddesy began. The interesting thing about the whole platform in the beginning was the disappearance of the barrier between mobile calls and the internet. Mobile calls are run on text messaging (with the new generations) and internet messaging is through email. The interesting concept is when a text messsage becomes an email pulled off the air and referenced with a web page that is collected with the cell phone (the Iphone is hardly a cell phone but from past understandings and usefulness it may serve this purpose). The metaphor changes when a device is able to do both. Throw in the abilty to be an Ipod (although limited by its size) The abilty to take credible photos and movies and to move them into an editting program such as Iphoto or Imovie.. you have really changed the concept.
I am very impressed with its abilty to pick up internet Wifis and use them when permitted. This would be pretty important to slower phones. It dosen't seem particularly slow in my environments becuase of the built in speed. I also am used to being in slower iternet environments having lived through 24K dial up.
It does facebook. It does flickr. It can even read my blog. I like the abilty to make pages bigger with a very sensitive keyboard. I learned the thumb and forefinger pinch move easily. I am still a little slow with when you tap and when you double tap. I like moving the pages the Tom Cruise.
I can see why people are spending their lives looking down and touch keyboarding.
Linzi recommeneded a couple of good "Apps" one is the Bart one for the Bay Area Rapid Transit schedule and Pandora that lets you set up an individual radio station. Both are great. I saw an add for the AAA discount App. It lets you know the merchants in any given area that will honor your AAA card for discounts. Its free too.
Its amazing how much more you can text with a decent keyboard. I was watching "THE" Wimbledon mens final today and the adds for the new Plam Pre looked cool. One problem, their keybord is limited to those darn little buttons. I like the abilty to turn it on its side and click away. I need to learn how to copy and paste.
The girls are learning from each other. One shared with the other about when the keys are shaking they can me re arranged. I have experienced that on the phone but did not know what precipitated the keys to start to shake.
I wish you all a new Iphone.. they are wonderful
: ) Pat
The new teenage Agnst with Royalty
My sister Kelly and I noticed at the fair a pretty interesting phenomenon.
Down in front of us three rows in a growingly impacted crowd a group of three 16 year old boys had saved a pretty large section of seats by "spreading out." Nothing too unusual about this until the female "royalty" arrived. You know the royalty.. that group of "popular" mostly blonde girls that float through their lives with every privilege and whose main preoccupation is the maintenance of their beauty. When these girls arrived.. all 7 of them in their identical blonde coiffures, the waves parted and suddenly their were plenty of seats in the "boy row." The girls lasted two songs of Charlie Daniels and they were off.. again moving over all the older audience members on their way to the aisle and out of the concert. I mentioned the royal status.. and Kelly confirmed.. she said you know why they are the royals? The size of the group and no attached boys to the arms or shoulders of the girls.
Last night Sue and I took the trip to Atwater for the fireworks scene. 5 dollars a car.. they turned the soccer field into the parking lot. The operative word is car.
We got out of the truck and headed for the bowl area of the parking lot. Their we joined a nice group of families with little kids stretched out in jammies and ready for the show. It was a perfect scene reminiscent of the family trip to the drive in shows in the summer when the double feature included Pollyanna and Summer Magic. The day was hot, but the night in Atwater was just right. The fireworks were wonderful but as expected it was a long wait to get out of the parking lot and on to the street to get home.
We sat in the car and watched the royalty in action next to our truck. A Honda civic with the requisite spoiler was parked next to us. The occupants were four tennage boys about 17. They were having a good time and staying out of trouble.. when along came the blonde royalty. Four damsels in distress.. or sort of.
They were determined and rightly so due to their status.. that they were going to go to a party or home with these boys. Four boys, four blonde girls all trying to get out of the fireworks show together in a honda civic. A Honda civic is not a 7 passenger car.
All of us real adults know that this really is not a possiblity. The VW never taveled when the half generation before ours crammed in. The telephone booth did not need to meeet the CHP with all its jammed occupants. So to get all of the royalty and the boys that brought the car could jam into the Honda civic but to move it down the road..
One royalty member started to organize the task. We can have the guys in the back have girls sit on their laps.. I don't want a guy sitting on my lap she said.. so it will have to be like that.
Then their was the problem of the purses. How will the girls organize their purses?
The guys who were the owners of the car were thinking about the problem in another way. Their can be people facing sideways that can sit with their knees up. Oh with that much more wait the car will be too low to get over the speed bumps.
Finally a solution was reached by the queen and her court. A guy that came would walk out and they would pick him up after they dropped off one of the queen's attendants nearby. So even though he came with the car, he agreed and the royalty had a ride out fo the parking lot.. or so it seemed.
It must suck to be royalty.. ha
: ) Pat
Down in front of us three rows in a growingly impacted crowd a group of three 16 year old boys had saved a pretty large section of seats by "spreading out." Nothing too unusual about this until the female "royalty" arrived. You know the royalty.. that group of "popular" mostly blonde girls that float through their lives with every privilege and whose main preoccupation is the maintenance of their beauty. When these girls arrived.. all 7 of them in their identical blonde coiffures, the waves parted and suddenly their were plenty of seats in the "boy row." The girls lasted two songs of Charlie Daniels and they were off.. again moving over all the older audience members on their way to the aisle and out of the concert. I mentioned the royal status.. and Kelly confirmed.. she said you know why they are the royals? The size of the group and no attached boys to the arms or shoulders of the girls.
Last night Sue and I took the trip to Atwater for the fireworks scene. 5 dollars a car.. they turned the soccer field into the parking lot. The operative word is car.
We got out of the truck and headed for the bowl area of the parking lot. Their we joined a nice group of families with little kids stretched out in jammies and ready for the show. It was a perfect scene reminiscent of the family trip to the drive in shows in the summer when the double feature included Pollyanna and Summer Magic. The day was hot, but the night in Atwater was just right. The fireworks were wonderful but as expected it was a long wait to get out of the parking lot and on to the street to get home.
We sat in the car and watched the royalty in action next to our truck. A Honda civic with the requisite spoiler was parked next to us. The occupants were four tennage boys about 17. They were having a good time and staying out of trouble.. when along came the blonde royalty. Four damsels in distress.. or sort of.
They were determined and rightly so due to their status.. that they were going to go to a party or home with these boys. Four boys, four blonde girls all trying to get out of the fireworks show together in a honda civic. A Honda civic is not a 7 passenger car.
All of us real adults know that this really is not a possiblity. The VW never taveled when the half generation before ours crammed in. The telephone booth did not need to meeet the CHP with all its jammed occupants. So to get all of the royalty and the boys that brought the car could jam into the Honda civic but to move it down the road..
One royalty member started to organize the task. We can have the guys in the back have girls sit on their laps.. I don't want a guy sitting on my lap she said.. so it will have to be like that.
Then their was the problem of the purses. How will the girls organize their purses?
The guys who were the owners of the car were thinking about the problem in another way. Their can be people facing sideways that can sit with their knees up. Oh with that much more wait the car will be too low to get over the speed bumps.
Finally a solution was reached by the queen and her court. A guy that came would walk out and they would pick him up after they dropped off one of the queen's attendants nearby. So even though he came with the car, he agreed and the royalty had a ride out fo the parking lot.. or so it seemed.
It must suck to be royalty.. ha
: ) Pat
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Red Jam Day
When I was growing up we always ended up at Grandma's house for a week or two in the Summer. My mom's mother was a prodigious canner. She made all kinds of perserves. Living on a 40 acre peach farm in Western Colorado, there was a bounty of veggies and many fruit from the peaches and the cherries and a couple of old gnarly plum trees.
It was always my job, along with my sister's, to pick the Santa Rosa plums for canning and jam making. It was kind of a layed back thing since the trees were pretty tall and the fruit was scattered. Its only care was the feeding from the chicken yard that it sat over. Little water, no pruning and they just grew.
At any rate, jam was made and so was jelly from the fruit of these trees. Although the prized jam came from the sour Damsen tree down by the canal.
So all summer long the major sweetness on the table was this plum jam and jelly. I really didn't like it so much then. It was always the same flavor.
Fast forward from the 12 year old kid to the 59 year old man. I have a plum tree that was a sport off the Santa Rosa plum. It was a remarkable plum in that it produced beautiful plums with wonderful flavor two to three weeks earlier than the Santa Rosa. My friend who had the sport, patented the tree and named it. When production began to make many more of these for sale a series of very unfortunate events occurred. Great rows of these trees were inadvertently plowed over. This farmer, teacher fought hard to get this tree out there. The industry fought to keep it off the market... or so it seemed.
This friend of mine gave me a bare root of this tree early in production. He knew that I would be a willing backup if the industry froze him out and destroyed his discovery. So I planted it and it grew. Every year it produced very nice fruit, but what do you do with it besides eat the fresh plums? I could make some dreaded jam. I recently found out from my friend (I had not seen him in 10 years) that the tree was not consistent in commercial production because it required a pollinizer at a particular time of blossom. A pluot would do however since it is in bloom very early. Yep, I have a pluot and that is why it is a consistent producer.
Surprise.. I made some jam a year or two ago and believe it or not I sort of like it. Today was a canning day.. and I made 6 pints of it (two batches). Sue even likes it.. especially if it stays red.
Plum jam takes a bit more work. The plums do not come off their pits. So they have to be cut off the pits. They have to chopped. A batch takes 6 1/2 cups of chopped cooked plums. That is about 8 cups of fresh chopped off the pit stuff. Then it goes into the food processor. Everything is chopped really fine. They it is heated to boiling and simmered for 5 minutes with a 1/2 cup of water. Then its the standard low sugar mix of 6 1/2 cups of fruit to 4 1/2 cups of sugar. First the pectin is added with a quarter cup of sugar. As it cooks in, it has to boil for a minute. Then the just of the sugar is added along with a couple of lemon cubes that I saved from the Fall harvest. Everything heats to a point where you cannot stir down the boil and it must boil for a minute. Then it all goes in sterile jars. The lid surfaces are wiped and the threds of the outside of the glass jars are cleaned. lids are aligned and rings are installed, Each jar joins the others for a bath under 2 inches of water that is is brough up to boil. The jars are boiled for at least 15 minutes.
I learned today that while canning jars a tough, the temperature change can be brutal. They can make the jars crack. Dropping cooler jars with canned apricot halves into the boiling canner resulted in two quart jars cracking and dumping their sweet contents in the boiling water.. what a mess. So I am a little more careful about temperature changes. Jars are put into luke warm water and then heated with the water. Jars are also allowed to cool down to luke warm terperature before they are pulled out into the air. Live and learn.
At least now I can say that I finally appreciate plum jam. I have also learned about the physics of cold and hot water.
All is not lost today.
: ) Pat
It was always my job, along with my sister's, to pick the Santa Rosa plums for canning and jam making. It was kind of a layed back thing since the trees were pretty tall and the fruit was scattered. Its only care was the feeding from the chicken yard that it sat over. Little water, no pruning and they just grew.
At any rate, jam was made and so was jelly from the fruit of these trees. Although the prized jam came from the sour Damsen tree down by the canal.
So all summer long the major sweetness on the table was this plum jam and jelly. I really didn't like it so much then. It was always the same flavor.
Fast forward from the 12 year old kid to the 59 year old man. I have a plum tree that was a sport off the Santa Rosa plum. It was a remarkable plum in that it produced beautiful plums with wonderful flavor two to three weeks earlier than the Santa Rosa. My friend who had the sport, patented the tree and named it. When production began to make many more of these for sale a series of very unfortunate events occurred. Great rows of these trees were inadvertently plowed over. This farmer, teacher fought hard to get this tree out there. The industry fought to keep it off the market... or so it seemed.
This friend of mine gave me a bare root of this tree early in production. He knew that I would be a willing backup if the industry froze him out and destroyed his discovery. So I planted it and it grew. Every year it produced very nice fruit, but what do you do with it besides eat the fresh plums? I could make some dreaded jam. I recently found out from my friend (I had not seen him in 10 years) that the tree was not consistent in commercial production because it required a pollinizer at a particular time of blossom. A pluot would do however since it is in bloom very early. Yep, I have a pluot and that is why it is a consistent producer.
Surprise.. I made some jam a year or two ago and believe it or not I sort of like it. Today was a canning day.. and I made 6 pints of it (two batches). Sue even likes it.. especially if it stays red.
Plum jam takes a bit more work. The plums do not come off their pits. So they have to be cut off the pits. They have to chopped. A batch takes 6 1/2 cups of chopped cooked plums. That is about 8 cups of fresh chopped off the pit stuff. Then it goes into the food processor. Everything is chopped really fine. They it is heated to boiling and simmered for 5 minutes with a 1/2 cup of water. Then its the standard low sugar mix of 6 1/2 cups of fruit to 4 1/2 cups of sugar. First the pectin is added with a quarter cup of sugar. As it cooks in, it has to boil for a minute. Then the just of the sugar is added along with a couple of lemon cubes that I saved from the Fall harvest. Everything heats to a point where you cannot stir down the boil and it must boil for a minute. Then it all goes in sterile jars. The lid surfaces are wiped and the threds of the outside of the glass jars are cleaned. lids are aligned and rings are installed, Each jar joins the others for a bath under 2 inches of water that is is brough up to boil. The jars are boiled for at least 15 minutes.
I learned today that while canning jars a tough, the temperature change can be brutal. They can make the jars crack. Dropping cooler jars with canned apricot halves into the boiling canner resulted in two quart jars cracking and dumping their sweet contents in the boiling water.. what a mess. So I am a little more careful about temperature changes. Jars are put into luke warm water and then heated with the water. Jars are also allowed to cool down to luke warm terperature before they are pulled out into the air. Live and learn.
At least now I can say that I finally appreciate plum jam. I have also learned about the physics of cold and hot water.
All is not lost today.
: ) Pat
Friday, July 3, 2009
County Fair Was Great
It was last Wednesday.
It was hot here in the valley. it was 10 degrees cooler in the Livermore Valley. My sister Kelly and i try to scope out the best day to go with mom and dad to the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton. Its a long time family tradition. The parents love to see good entertainment. If it is included in the price of admission, so much the better. There were only two viable options this year for them. One of them was Charlie Daniel's on the first day of the fair and the other one would be BJ Thomas later in the schedule.
Charlie and his band put on quite a show. An hour is not much time to cover the diversity of his music. There were two big bridge sets that took up a lot of time as well. Despite this, he came through with many of his hits that the savvy audience knew. A lot of redneck talk and some patriotic illusions as I expected from such a "Simple Man." He sang a gospel song as he always does.. "How Great Thou Art." and finished the set with a very hot rendition of the "Devil went Down to Georgia." We hydrated up and enjoyed the concert from under the shade of the big tree and the cloth spread above the audience.
Mom and dad seemed to enjoy it. Dad's only comment was that he couldn't make out the words of the first two songs and then he wished there was some banjo and mandolin playing in the group. I pointed out that they were a little ways away from bluegrass which would have those components.
I ate some barbeque pork sandwich when we first arrived. Sue had the tri tip dinner with the cole slaw and beans. Bubbas was pretty good.
Sue found a jewley salesman in the comerical exhibit and bought a copper bracelet and a pair of copper angels. She also found the "happy feet" sandal display and bought a great pair of black sandals with multicolored straps.
We got to tour the quilts and collections and the gardens. They were based on a Victorian theme this year. There were lots of delphiniums and hydrangea flowers displayed in garden settings by the pros.
Overall it was a great time.
: ) Pat
It was hot here in the valley. it was 10 degrees cooler in the Livermore Valley. My sister Kelly and i try to scope out the best day to go with mom and dad to the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton. Its a long time family tradition. The parents love to see good entertainment. If it is included in the price of admission, so much the better. There were only two viable options this year for them. One of them was Charlie Daniel's on the first day of the fair and the other one would be BJ Thomas later in the schedule.
Charlie and his band put on quite a show. An hour is not much time to cover the diversity of his music. There were two big bridge sets that took up a lot of time as well. Despite this, he came through with many of his hits that the savvy audience knew. A lot of redneck talk and some patriotic illusions as I expected from such a "Simple Man." He sang a gospel song as he always does.. "How Great Thou Art." and finished the set with a very hot rendition of the "Devil went Down to Georgia." We hydrated up and enjoyed the concert from under the shade of the big tree and the cloth spread above the audience.
Mom and dad seemed to enjoy it. Dad's only comment was that he couldn't make out the words of the first two songs and then he wished there was some banjo and mandolin playing in the group. I pointed out that they were a little ways away from bluegrass which would have those components.
I ate some barbeque pork sandwich when we first arrived. Sue had the tri tip dinner with the cole slaw and beans. Bubbas was pretty good.
Sue found a jewley salesman in the comerical exhibit and bought a copper bracelet and a pair of copper angels. She also found the "happy feet" sandal display and bought a great pair of black sandals with multicolored straps.
We got to tour the quilts and collections and the gardens. They were based on a Victorian theme this year. There were lots of delphiniums and hydrangea flowers displayed in garden settings by the pros.
Overall it was a great time.
: ) Pat
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