Here Comes Trouble...

My Mom is here for a visit, and Mom is a character (with a capital C), so we've been having a wonderful time!!

Mom arrived on Tuesday, and we got her settled… Tuesday evening Jeff had band practice so Mom and I went for a walk…

We walked around Como Lake, Como Park St Paul.

Wednesday morning caught Mom chilling out in the Library, reading a book and watching the bird feeders… Wednesday was "errand" day, we ran lots of errands, got caught out in the rain without an umbrella, and laughed a lot… :)

Thursday was a "stay at home" day, we watched an old movie (The Music Man) while I did a bit of work in the studio… it was fun to sing & watch Mom dance to the silly songs in the movie…

Thursday night was "Date Night" and we forced Mom to join us (she was trying to stay home), we went out for a nice dinner at a good Italian restaurant in the area.

"Fashion Friday", we're all dressed up and ready to go… Strawberry Picking!!

Don't those look Yummy?  The 2 boxes in the foreground (cut off) are ours...

It was a cool day in the Strawberry fields, just perfect for crawling around on our hands & knees and digging through Strawberry plants… and of course we ate our share while picking (had to do some QA on the product)...

The picking was the easy part… then we went home and made: Strawberry Freezer Jam, Strawberry Yogurt Cake, Strawberry Sorbet, and the rest we cleaned & cut up with a bit of sugar for Shortcake.

At some point (Thursday or Friday??) I had noticed I had some Garlic in my garlic holder that had started to sprout… so I decided to plant it… It's already growing like gangbusters!!

Saturday we met the kids (Tim & Marta) for a very late breakfast… umm… it ended up being a kinda late lunch (Jeff & I had a morning meeting that went late)… then we drove through Minneapolis to pick up some Lamb Sausages from a local deli we like… then we had the kids over for dinner - Lamb Sausages & Burgers with Salad (had some of Mom's avocados in the salad)… Yum!!  Then we had the Strawberry Shortcake for dessert….

Today we went to church, then some more errands, then we went over to the kid's house (Tim & Marta's) for dinner - they barbecued us up an absolutely wonderful meal!!  All on the barbecue they did:  Chicken skewers, Veggies skewers (onion, bell, tomato), Chicken Livers, Artichokes, Grilled Bread, Grilled Peaches, and Grilled Pineapple.  Amazing what Marta can do with a little Weber grill & some charcoal!!