I went to Walgreen's to pick up cat food and guess what?

They were having a buy one get one free sale on Haagen Daz and Ben & Jerry's pints. I got Dulce de Leche and Brownie Batter. (The selection was rather limited.)

Enemy of America, Hil. Enemy of America. t sighs

Enemy of America, Hil. Enemy of America.

But, but, ... peach! With little cruncy cinnamony shortbread bits!

Vw that's a beautiful quilt!

Had dinner with the parents at one of my favorite local places. They make up vegetarian plates the waitress told me - just give them a theme, do you want Asian or Caribbean-- but they had fried okra on the menu so I asked for a Southern plate.

Whole fried okra, thick cut sweet potato fries, creamed spinach, cooked apples, new potatoes. So yummy. Plus for dessert Dad and I split the Apple Gallette and flourless chocolate cake.

Dad gave me interesting presents for my birthday. Two really neat dragonfly wall hangings I'd seen at the nursery. And on the unusual side -- Ginger skip the next paragraph!!

caterpillars. Which sounds totally weird I know but he got me a Happy Home and some plants , fennel and hop plant and now I have 2 types of caterpillars that will turn into butterflies. On the hop plant there was one that's going to make a chrysalis at anytime, a tiny one , and an egg. They will transform into Giant Swallotails and the ones on the fennel will turn into Black Swallowtails.

In Father's Day news, I'm going over to his house to give him the plants I bought for him and then I'm taking over some of Season 2 of Doctor Who and introduce dad to David Tennant.

Poor Emmett! I hope he's feeling better.

This talk of ice cream is making me crave B&J. Turtle Soup is my favorite.

askye, ewwwwwww.

Fried okra good. Caterpillars bad.

Below is a partial cross-post from my lj...it was a fantastic game...

Today was the Championship game for CJ's Little League team - the Brewers. The opposition - the Giants - had suffered only one loss the whole season. To our team.

So, today's game was amazing. It was an amazing game. Our boys were having fun and tried so hard to pull out the win. They play 6 innings at this age level and we were the visiting team. In the top of the 5th the score was 2-1 them and CJ was on deck (the next batter). We had two outs, runners on second and third, and the batter had a full count. Me, I'm in mom-freak out that my son is going to come to bat with two outs, bases loaded and the whole game on his shoulders. The batter struck out, so CJ is now going to start off the last inning.

In the top of the sixth, CJ got a nice hit into the shallow outfield, giving him a clean single. As the next batter struck out, he stole second. The following batter walked and CJ stole third. He was poised to score the tie run. The next batter struck out and we now have runners on second and third. Again. The pitcher walked the sixth batter, loading the bases so now some other kid is up with two outs, bases loaded, last chance to keep the game alive. He hit a nice line drive down the third base line and, giving credit where it is due, the Giant's third baseman made an amazing grab, ending the game.

Even though they lost, our kids kept their heads up the whole game and had FUN.

I've never seen turtle soup!

(BTW, neither have I ever seen Americone Dream. I have a friend who saw the label where it was supposed to be but the store was out. That is it. I think it doesn't really exist.)

I finally scored some last week. Very yum - much better than I expected. Now I want the peach.

I also got a big giant fennel plant and a hop plant out of this.

But I feel like I've got a bit of a science fair experiment in my house.