Sun On Daisies

This past weekend, we had our first social evening with our neighbors -- it started our with just the couple next door (roughly our age) but elevated to include everyone in our little cluster of four homes (where we are all are related by blood or leases.) We had a truly great evening sitting out on their garden with a bottle of wine or seven, some perry (pear cider), a beer or two, and great impromptu BBQ with chicken, burgers, and more. Late in the evening when just the young crowd was still up, we had some homemade "gin" that I need to get the recipe for -- it was made from a small plum that grows around here. It was very sweet and strong.

One of the best things to come out of it was Boo now has her first English friend, Dolly. Dolly is a nine-month-young black lab pup who is intended to be a working dog but the jury is out on that, it sounds. After a couple of scrapes and some "sexy" time from Boo, they seem to have become fast friends. Bruce, the older dog in the group, was a bit cranky and before the night was over, Boo lost it when Bruce growled at her... Boo had to go home not long after that -- she had every intent of 'keeping it real'.

Yet another outcome: we have our "in" for the local events that happen in the Callow. There is a pig roast coming up in August that we hope to attend with the neighbors where we will no doubt meet more of the Callow residents. On queue, a roasting pig went by on a trailer and the smell was heavenly.

At one point in the evening, the conversation was about the sunsets here -- we had noticed them many nights. The colors in the sky are phenomenal and different every night. Lisa told us that there will be nights when the sun is setting and the moon is rising and the sky will be split between orange and red on one side and blue and green on the other. If you walk up one of the high roads (we are down in a small valley), the view is spectacular, she said. I'll leave you with some of the many pictures we'd already taken of the sunset and hopefully one night we'll get a shot of the sun and moon together.

Cheers!