I slept until 7 yesterday, so no blog when I got up. My Dad was already here. We had bacon and eggs, produced here, and homemade raisin bread. Just need to figure out how to get local butter. He did some work in the garden and I mixed up some cookies. It was too hot to bake them, though, necessitating the closing of the windows by the time Ray left for work. Fortunately, we had gotten the house cooled down a little.

I went to Sky's and picked about 4 pints of berries. It took me forever. I am not that fast at it. So it was after 10 when I got home. My Dad had watered everything and picked a lot of stuff. I took a quick bath and we made gazpacho. He peeled tomatoes and chopped things and we discussed every decision about what to put in--herbs, lime juice, cucumber, red onion. It was delicious, but we made quite a mess. We ate hot dogs, too, and Ray joined us for those. He is not a fan of gazpacho. Too bad--now we have a lot of it! Captain and I each had two bowls and then he wrote down the recipe. We watched his sky diving video and it was almost too exciting for me.

Ray worked on his notes and I finished up a job application that I will turn in today, while the temperature climbed outdoors but we stayed comfortable. At 5:15 we met Janna and Ron and their friends Beth and Joe to see Hysteria, which was pretty fun, although I was sorry not to see it with Becky. Then we went to Chipotle, which opened this week next to Chili's. It was good and filling, but I was kind of anxious to get home. Lots to do, especially for Ray, who was up until 4 or so again--I don't really know. I made bread and baked the cookies, so I was up until midnight myself--and then awake again in the night and up before 6. It will be a good day to take a nap.

The day before was lunch distribution with Gere and we had a lovely dinner with the Captain at Porterhouse--we split lamb chops and I had the most wonderful scallops appetizer, with creme brulee for dessert.