Grandma Keeps Cool

Favorite hot weather pastime is watching the sprinkler spin...

Summer on the Farm

GRANDMA VISITS LOPEZ

This is the best place for warm cinnamon rolls just out of the oven...but you need to time your order with the ferry schedule....if you're not in line soon enough, they will run out....but not to worry there will be another batch with the next ferry...!!!...and they are worth the wait...

...and had lunch with my cousin Linda, who is hosting our Swedish cousins for the weekend...

Rune and his favorite pose...

and Margareta...from Karlskoga...

Caden's Birthday Party #3

STEAMED MUSSELS

Shannon and I stopped to visit Bjorn and Christine's cabin on our bikeride along Hood Canal...and discovered a field of mussels on their beach...we learned how to harvest mussels... never cut off the beard...and loaded bags of the delicacies onto our handlebars...I'm sure we made quite a site as we traveled back down the road on our bikes...with the chef's rules fresh on our minds, we cleaned and rinsed and cleaned...we opted for the spanish version with a little cream, wine and saffron...then clipped the beards away just before adding the mussels to the sauce...so many...we had to recruit the neighbors to help us eat them all...

4TH OF JULY