Cracker Barrel - good eats

One of my favorite things to do is eat at the Cracker Barrel. Wednesdays they serve up broccoli-cheddar-chicken casserol which is one of my favorites. Thursdays they serve a Turkey dinner with stuffing and 2 side dishes of your choice. My fave sides are okra and green beans or corn. We went there last night as we missed out on Wed. I recently have mastered the Peg game they have on all their tables.

Sweet Peas

One of my favorite flowering plants is the sweet pea. It is also one that my Dad has grown for years - but never at the house I grew up in. This year I tried to grow some just out of curiosity. I was thinking that they only grew in the cool of the NW. Wrong I was... I actually got them to grow and BLOOM. I have never been so happy abt that. I also found out my brothers wife - Brenda - loves them too. When I was in Seattle over the 4th of July for my Dad's 80th bday party, my brother, Stan and Brenda were moving. Dad's sweet peas were in bloom then. We brought some to S & B at their new house and we all were blessed with their beauty...

Dad making his kite

Dad learned to sew from his Mom who was a professional seamstress in her day... Dad can sew many things including his kite creations.
Colleen flying one of her many kites during a dry spell on her trip. (can you imagine, some people even fly kites in the rain. Yuk.)
You could go fishing when kite flying was feasible....


Dad flying one of his award winning kites. He received first place for this kite - it's a Cody style. He made this one himself also.

Let's go fly a kite..

My sister, Colleen, just returned from a 10 day vacation to Long Beach, Washington to attend the Washington Kite Festival. This is her 4th time going with our folks (who have been going for over 20 years). She drove the whole way there herself - 2 days and 1 night to get there. I can't seem to drive more than 5 hrs before having to stop and sleep or EAT if nothing else. My rear gets tired of sitting and my eyes go crossed. Ugh. Anyway, back to her trip... There are kites of all sizes and colors represented. Colleen has abt 15 larger size ones and a few smaller ones. You have to have pretty big winds to get up some of the ones she has. My Dad has made several over the years which he's flown and won awards for the workmanship. This is one of the latest he's made. The weather was too rainy for him to fly it when that particular kind of kite was to be flown, but he did get a pin for the perfect construction and colors of the material. Dad usually wears the most colorful clothes when he is out in his element. You just gotta love it - no inhabitions. The pants are pretty subdued this year. Other years they too have been just as colorful as the jacket. I just love my Dad.