Birthday Boys

What a wonderful weekend filled with great friends and beautiful birthday celebrations.

Happy Birthday to Frankie and Kevin!

First Picnic

"She wasn't bad, she was just drawn that way."

The temperature finally broke 70 on Saturday and the whole city was in central park.

Even Emma and I sat out in the sun, on the grass, had our first picnic.

We ate, watched a guy for an hour trying to locate his friends on the great lawn, saw too many short shorts, and I sketched.

All great fun, however, 3 hours into it, I had enough. I missed my leather jacket and boots.

The Promise

Song: The promise
Band: When in Rome
Friends: Diane, Kevin, Kirk and Jennifer

Flashback 1: Jennifer goes up to the DJ booth and requests the song. 4 friends dance as if the empty club was their own living room. Later on, Jennifer falls on her ass from the over croweded stage. Success.

Flashback 2: Another weekend road trip to visit Kevin at Austin, 3 friends, in the latest vintage finds, blast the song in Diane's Trans Am, top down. Dairy Queen coming up.

Flashback 3: Jennifer plays the song at Cubbyhole's Jukebox wishing the song is availble on itunes. Emma surprises Jennifer with an old fashioned CD a few days later.

I gotta tell yaaaa ...I will.

Home sweet home

Thanks to the new power drill and someone's patience, Mom's painting is finally properly on display.

It's the first thing we see when walking into the apartment, aside from the tail-wagging Oliver. Now we just have to shorten the light fixture, so it doesn't look like the cottage is under a hot lamp.

Home sweet home.

Soul Good

Baked chicken cutlets coated with onion flavored bread crumbs. Sides were fresh corn on the cob and collard greens with bacon. Loved every bite of this country goodness.

Cow Tipping

New friends we brought home from the Chelsea Flea Market last weekend.

Emma named the largest one on the far right, Daisy.

Kind of makes me want to serve up ice cream and root beer floats.

Halibut & QVC

Pan roasted halibut with zucchini feta topping, and grilled eggplant with cucumber dill yogurt. By Emma, of course.

Followed by 5 colorful macaroons in wedding almond, praline, pear, raspberry and earl gray flavors, while we watched Paula Dean's 2nd anniversary special on QVC. Oh my stars.