People will start arriving at 2, my living room and dining room still look like I am a transient, the clothes line poles need to be built and installed, the yard cleaned up, the kitchen floor mopped... sounds like a perfect time to blog to me!
Most of the food is ready and waiting. All I have to do is make the pasta salad, but the condiments, oh, and grill the meat.
I am trying a new pasta salad today. Usually, I make Gazpacho Pasta Salad - which is so good I can't even begin to tell you - but this time i am trying my friend Emily's pasta salad. She mixes equal parts ranch dressing and Italian dressing, and tosses in green peppers, salami, onion and black olives. We have a vegetarian visiting, so there will be no salami, and I think I might toss some broccoli and cauliflower into the mix. What do you think? I will let you know how it turns out.
Today is going to be fun. I love sitting around talking to old people about their lives. One woman is 93, her husband is 89, and there will be a bunch of 70's. I commented to Marty that I think it will be fun to have friends around on a holiday. He said that he thinks it is funny that most of my friends are octogenarians. Hmmm...
For the record, young people will be here, too.
Am I the only one who misses planting graves for the holidays? Am I the only one with a crazy family that still does that? Maybe for July 4th I will find a random grave that isn't tended and clean it up and plant it. I am sure there is a veterans cemetery around here somewhere.
Well, I am off to construct clothes line poles. Woohoo.
Happy Memorial day!
Picture from flickr
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Tonight the wind is blowing and rattling my window panes. On nights like this I think how blessed I am to have a safe home, small as it may be. But what about the homeless out there with no shelter to call their own? What would you do to solve the problem of homelessness, so familiar in most USA cities? Vote in my poll and let me know your solutions.
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