Welcome Summer!

- Unofficially, of course but Memorial Day is when we're allowed to start thinking summerily.

MD is the other half of what I wrote of last year in Remembrance Day. This one is to honour the dead & so, true to form, the Americans therefore feast & socialise that weekend. 
(Also heard at work, "it's a good day to buy a car." Of course, what else?)

Two invitations =  

Two cheesecakes, twenty-four cupcakes, a handful of strawberries & a whole lot of fun. Done. 

I was justifiably proud of our creative baking endeavours at 7½.  

 

         Red with blueberries; cookie monster blue with strawberries.

 

 ( John: 'So I'll get some PBR...'
  Marcia: 'Oh, Nikki won't drink that...'
  John: 'What kind of an Englishwoman is she?!'
  Marcia: 'A discerning one.'   

                                                          ... Six hand-picked craft beer bottles later....                                                                                                          I  ♥ my colleagues! )

 Booboo & Luna (mother & daughter) came to visit for peanuts too!

 Little bit shy at first....














Decides we're not altogether too scary...

Omnomnomnom.

Grin!

Next, to Newmarket to join with the last bonfire of the season. 

But MD really made me happy as (it being a Public Holiday) I felt that America had finally grasped the joys of the 3-day Bank Holiday Weekend. Yes to a whole delightful Monday for all!  

Following brunch out, 

we checked off a vital MBH tradition with a visit to Lowe's, the garden centre.

Yes!

And then there was the Mini Keg find 

to accompany the evening's Grill offerings. 

  Ginny dampened her feathers with a Shout! bath,
                    cooling off afterwards with Oberon.

                   

(This is also the last photo you'll see of the distant brown-sided shed  ^ ; 
it's gone all out with almond vinyl & a fair bit of sweat, blood & sunburn.)

Aw!