One of Brian’s high school friends had a beach wedding last week. The reception for it was yesterday at the Imperial Ballroom in Ebensburg. It was a nice, low-key affair. Brian gave the toast or his “speech” (as many people there called it). We had to leave a little early as it was a school night for Jake, but most of the festivities were wrapping up by that point anyway.
final appeal
Good thing for books and movies, otherwise I wouldn’t have anything to blog about. It seems like it was a busy summer, but I don’t feel like we really did anything. We did almost zero entertaining this year. And, with the exception of the bathroom remodel at our rental, we’ve been staying away from that kind of work in the summer. I did do a good job keeping up with my weeding tasks, so apparently that’s what I did this summer. I also canned and froze a bunch of stuff (and am not done yet).
That said, I finished this book yesterday. It was another one from Lisa Scottoline. It was all right, but nothing to write home about. This was one of her older works (I like her newer stuff better). Scottoline writes legal thrillers, by the way.
I did have some motivation to finish it up as the latest Sookie Stackhouse novel arrived at the end of last week. Though that book did not get good reviews on Amazon, so who knows how that one’s going to turn out? Check back in a week or so to find out.
ethnic fest
We went to the Ethnic Fest yesterday to get our pierogi fix from St. Mary’s church. They were delicious as usual. There weren’t any good bands playing while we were there so we weren’t down there very long, but we did manage to run into a couple of people we knew. It seemed like they had a pretty good turnout this year. Hopefully today’s rain didn’t put a damper on things.
american reunion
This was probably my least favorite of the American Pie sequels, which is not to say it wasn’t funny–there were some good one-liners, but I don’t think it was as good as the other movies in the series (of course, I can’t really remember much about the previous movies at this point, but apparently I really liked American Wedding). Overall, it went well with my Margarita.
fall planting
I planted my fall garden in one of the raised beds Jake made for me in the spring. I bought hoops for it for when the weather turns cooler. I installed them and put summer-weight fabric on it. I figure it’ll keep the birds and chipmunks from stealing the seeds. I will put a heavier fabric on whenever it cools off.
I put in bunching onions, mesclun, carrots, spinach, beets, swiss chard, radishes and beans. Some of these things I’ve planted in the fall before, but some are new. I just keep trying stuff to see what works. I’m hoping to be harvesting well into November this year–that would be awesome.