Anita, our vegetarian, cooked dinner tonight: "Chunky Oven Baked Ratatouille." She went to the library and borrowed vegetarian cookbooks to find her recipes and has volunteered to cook one meal a week. She served the ratatouille with rice pilaf. Delicious!!!!! Great job Anita. Thanks for a very yummy meal.
If you click on the photo it will enlarge it for a better look. Wasn't Mom Mom, our mother, really beautiful?
Found this weird mound of pellet looking stuff. Soft and really weird. Don't know what it is and whether it came from the tree it's under or from the ground. Anyone?????
Unusual sky this evening. Thunder storms were going on all around us. Again, we didn't get the rain. I love sky shots.
Pretty sky the other night.
Zoomed the lens and got this cool shot. Weird how the tree looks black.
The butterfly that I enjoy watching on the sparce butterfly bush after the japanese beetles chomped off all of the leaves. It's slowly coming back. Yay!!!!!
This is the tomato that I picked and was going to eat green. I was determined to eat a tomato before the squirrel took off with it. With patience, I noticed it turning red soooo, tomorrow I am going to make me a BLT with the first red tomato from our garden.
Anita spotted the squirrel grabbing and running with one of the large Ramapo tomatoes. We ran outside and yelled at the squirrel until he dropped the tomato. He left his teeth marks in it. We brought it in the house and may eat the good half. After all, this is my "hope to be great Ramapo tomato" the tomato created by Rutger's Univ. to bring back the "Jersey Tomato" flavor we haven't tasted for many years. As you can see, I went to Lowe's and bought screening to wrap around the tomato plants. Keeping my fingers crossed.
These are a few of the tomatoes on one of the Ramapo plants. I hope to taste a couple of big, red, juicy tomatoes before the summer is over. My small garden seems to be fighting challenges that change from day to day. The squirrel ate off the corn stalks. There were six, now there is one. The beetles were eating the mint. Dill is a lost cause. Oh well! And then there's the destruction of the butterfly bush. It seems to be coming back, slowly. A butterfly actually visits the few blossoms on the sparce plant. And, the milkweed plant is dying. I guess it will not be home for Monarch butterflies. I don't know what's killing it.
Blew out all of the candles on one try. Thank goodness they didn't put on 69 of them.
Powdered sugar instead of icing. Just the way I like it. I ate three pieces. BELLY ACHE. haha
After I removed the remainder of the cake from the pan, this heart was on the pan, a smaller version of the cake, from the middle and outlined with powdered sugar. NEAT!!!!!
The tomato plants are loving this heat. When I checked it today 7/7/10, I saw many more tomatoes popping out.
This is what the butterfly bush looks like after the japanese beetles chewed off all of the leaves. I treated the bush with liquid onion and water and it seems to be keeping the JBs off. Today, 7/7/10, a large yellow and black butterfly was on a flower on the bush. I was beyond excited. Doesn't take much to make me happy. haha
Is this a great picture or what? Aren't they gorgeous?
Antonio and Anita's friend Jenny at the fireworks.
Closeup!!!!! Love those eyes.
Anita wrapped in our fireworks blanket. My friend Audrey gave me the bedspread at least 20 years ago. It's still hanging in there.
Anita goofing around. The blanket made it into a lot of pictures. haha - Famous red blanket.
The girls had a combined graduation party. Had my camera. Didn't take a picture until the end of the night. Thought I should get at least one shot. When I aimed my camera, all three turned just at the right moment. Congratulations again Jess and Rox. Love you. Same goes for Russ.
Graduation evening. I love this picture. Don't they all look great?.....family smiles all across.
Davey and me. I'm so proud of Davey, as a graduate and, 'cause he's an awesome guy.
The procession to his seat. He walked with a skip in his step. Graduation day is here and he has reached the culmination of his high school years. Next, on to college.
Davey's in the back row on the right. When I arrived at graduation, I expected a class as large as Roxanne's. Debbie reminded me that New Egypt High is much smaller then Hammonton High. The ceremony was a lot shorter. This shot is half of the class. I can see you standing out in the back Davey. Standing proud. Love You!
A closer shot of Davey in the back.
Finally, I got a shot of one of the four graduates receiving his diploma. Davey received his from Mr. Probasco, Kait's dad. That was cool.
Proud graduate walking the procession back to the high school, diploma in hand. 
Mom was super proud and she showed it.
Happy, happy tears. "My baby graduated high school and soon he'll be off to college."
Davey and Kait
Can you see the family resemblance? Davey, mom and aunts Donna and Diane.
Awwww Mom? I know how you feel. Thanks for the love.
Davey, Dad and Sis.
Sun setting at the end of a beautiful graduation ceremony and another proud family gathering.
Anita and her friend Jenny.
Hanging in the Media Center.
