Happy Father's Day Weekend!

Our weekend began with a Saturday morning phone chat with Carolyn and putting AA's ear drops in. 

While AA and Ford had a golf practice, I drove to Carolyn's to help her out (secretly while she was at work). She's had a few issues lately so I hope by mowing her yard (and puttering inside while I cooled off from "heat stroke!!", I did the dishes, cleaned a little), then gave Bella a short time outside to pee, so that Carolyn can rest for a day. Such a hot day!

Only pulled a few weeds, way too hot for me!

Didn't plant her Ponderosa lemon tree, next time!

Back in the garage, the lawn mower cooled down while I cooled off inside:

At 5:00 p.m., we had our weekly Zoom meeting Happy Hour without Kathy. Lots of discussion but need to plan some topics, like books, movies, and interesting stories to talk about. Always a good time visiting. After, a rotisserie chicken with fresh roasted asparagus and onion for dinner.

Sunday began with making homemade biscuits for breakfast. Didn't have buttermilk, so used part Greek yogurt and whole milk, no difference in the taste after baked. Ford opened his gift from AA, a "UF Gator" corn hole game. I gave him new LL Bean "swim shorts".

Recipe (again):

We (AA did 90% of work) made pasta salad (trying to be close to AA's favorite at Sweet Sensations - pepperoni, diced bell pepper, olives, Italian dressing) and homemade lemonade (Dad/Ford's favorite drink):

Lemonade: Boil 1 C. water with 1 C. sugar. Cool. Add 1 C. fresh lemon juice. Add 4 - 5 cups cold water to taste.

Then they went off to pick up dinner of ribs from Sonny's, all pre-ordered but still took forever, too crowded.

Then off to Maggie's, some fresh brews and Sonny's BBQ ribs for dinner back at home. Only things we could think of to do, stay outside and away from crowds. Caught Ford in the pepper plants, no new varieties so only bought two flowers for my hanging basket.

Maggie's chicken, digging in the cool earth, shaded:

Corn hole game!!!

Ancient City Red Ale and Anastasia IPA was our beer choice today. Had to go inside to the bar to order, Ford with mask and Clorox wipes. We wiped down the table and chairs. Only one other group wore masks. Many people came and went grabbing door handles and going inside with no masks, no visible cleaning of hands, etc. The business did have hand sanitizer in the outside area and a portable wash station, didn't see anyone use them. So they at least offered some way to clean hands.  

We finished the evening with watching a movie AA found, "Knives Out", a great murder mystery (11/2019)! A happy father's day!

Don’t expect Rian Johnson’s star-studded whodunit Knives Out to feature any outdated references to past wars or broody main characters common in this genre. Instead, the lively murder mystery includes an eccentric bunch of characters who smoke Juuls and have obviously seen Hamilton.

"One of the big things that’s interesting to me is usually when you see whodunits, they’re period pieces," Johnson said. "They’re set in the past or they’re timeless. I thought, 'What would a whodunit look like if it was set in 2019 in America?'"

When the Thrombey family patriarch, Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), mysteriously kills himself, Daniel Craig’s Detective Blanc is left wondering why, while most of this millionaire’s family is busy fighting over their inheritance. Johnson, who most recently directed The Last Jedi, dusted off the old murder mystery and brought it into the present, intertwining the hunt for the killer with a satirical examination of wealth and privilege in the Trump era.

While the family debates immigration policy from the comfort of their mansion, their father's caretaker (played by Ana de Armas) worries about keeping her mother's undocumented status under wraps — a fact that becomes harder to hide and is even used against her as police begin to snoop around after Harlan's death.......