A good weekend

We went over to our neighbors on Saturday night instead of just watching a movie on our own. The night before, (while I had just popped in for a chat) Cheryl's dad had brought over some ribs he'd just made for dinner. Of course I had to try one and oh my goodness was it good. It was a dry rub he'd used on there and the flavors were ginger and teriyaki. So for Saturday night I bought the rub too and took out two racks of pork baby ribs from the freezer. We took them to Cheryl's for dinner. She grilled steaks too, and made stuffed jalapeno peppers wrapped in bacon AND made strawberry margaritas. And at 9pm she whipped up a quick chocolate cake and put it in the oven, that made the whole kitchen smell delicious. Cheryl's sister and her friend were there and all 6 of us played a game of 'Battle of the Sexes' :-)

On Sunday morning I went to pick up Kristen from her sleepover. She'd had a fun time but said she didn't get much sleep cos some of the girls were talking still past midnight!

I didn't go to church yesterday :-( Instead I got out my sewing machine! We changed the game room around yet again, and it looks in more of a mess than it previously did, so still no pics I'm afraid. In the hopes of 'pulling the room together' once we get it all decluttered again, I bought some material to make some curtains and cushions. I made one curtain yesterday. It came out ok, and now I have to do two more. Hopefully I can get them done this week otherwise I will become bored with them. I am feeling more in the mood for sewing though (a good thing considering my new $500 machine hasn't seen much of the light of day since I bought it last year) and I think I will look in to taking more sewing lessons. It took me an hour just to get the machine to work yesterday! I was probably threading it wrong or had the tension wrong, who knows, but eventually it worked.

My sis asked how the sunflower was doing? I took this picture last week when we finally saw the head of the flower emerge.

Unfortunately the head of the flower never really got any bigger than that and it now seems to have wilted and died already :-/ Still an impressive sight, and we might think of planting more next year around the edge of the garden. The tomatoes could be doing better. Our plants are huge and there are many green tomatoes on them but they seem to be taking a while to turn red, and by the time they do the skins are split and dry (not surprising with 100 degree weather every day) and one was already pecked by birds. We need to put some netting around and I think up the watering too. So far I've only tried one tomato which tasted lovely, so I would like to have more.

This morning we're off to piano lesson at 10.30am and then it will be back home to escape the heat, and get on with the sewing! Hope you all enjoy the day.