Happy Birthday Tim! 24!

Happy Birthday, Tim! I can't believe you are almost the same age as I was when I met your dad!

I hope you had a FABULOUS day! Love you!

 

Dolcetti Gelatto - 2023

This little place is SO cool! When you walk in, this is what you see if you look to your right. 

This is on the right, but farther into the store.

This is a view of the counter in the back. 

This is the view to your left as you walk in.

Here is a better view of the left wall. 

These parasols were right above where you order.

A purple chandelier! 

All of their tables had all of these little trinkets to look at. It could keep you busy for hours.

I wonder how long it took to accumulate all of these.

It was very fun, and they also have AWESOME gelato and baked goods!

 

Park City 2023

FINALLY, Park City 2023 trip is HERE! For the fist time since we have been going to the Best Western, we weren't able to get into our room early. So we went and did our Park City Roasters run at the beginning. While we were there, we decided to go next door to Park City Brewery. I am happy to say that I got my first brew sampler. I got Mexican lager (like Pacifico), Sneaker IPA, Hoppy Pale Ale, and Amber. 

Here is the menu....

I am happy to say that I tried something new, but at this writing, I am STILL just not a beer girl.....

I still forgot to take a lot of pictures. One of the nights, we went to Maxwell's. It had been featured on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. I later found out it was the SLC location that was featured. I am not sure what happened, because the food was meh, but the place was falling apart and not very clean. I had ravioli. Terry's was better, he had chicken parmesan. 

I did make my pilgrimage to Park City Nursery and, as always, got some good stuff!

Not sure what this one is, but it is some sort of Elephant Ear or Begonia? I hope I can keep this one alive!

This Tilandsia was in the dress shop...

This Rainbow Succulent came from Walmart. When I saw it, I thought it would be perfect for Topher. I got it for him as a thank you for house sitting and being Lady's companion for the weekend. 

I don't know what kind of succulent this is, but it came from Park City Nursery hot house.

Here is another Tilandsia from the Park City Nursery Dress Shop.

This is a Living Stones from Park City Nursery.

Here is a Limestone Succulent from Park City Nursery.

This one seems to be part of the mint family, but not sure of the name. This also came from Park City Nursery. 

I love this purple one! Plant Snap doesn't know what this either. Again, this is from Park City Nursery. 

It was a long awaited and BADLY needed trip. I wish it didn't cost so much to go up there. I would go once a month, for SURE. Hopefully we can get up there again before ski season starts. I don't want to wait clear until next year....

 

Mother's Day 2023

 I have the best kids. Alex called Terry and the two of them got a little family gathering together. Terry bought Little Caesers and we had pizza and salad. Bren and Lyndie brought me these beautiful roses.

Alex got me a smart ass cup. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, does it?

He also knows me SO well with the Trek stuff!

It was a great day. Tim and Toph said that as soon as they got paid, they would get me a gift, but I just love that they were there. I sent my mom and grandma gifts via Amazon. I am just to ill to make any visiting trips. Boooo. I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day! 

Plant Update 5-18-23

 I just wanted to post pictures of all of my plants as of 5-18-23 so I can go back and look on them at a future date. 

This is the fig tree that Peama gave me. It was from Steve's funeral.

I was taking pictures of the new growth so that I could show her. She gave it to me because she was moving to Virginia with Kasey.

Here is the bay window in the kitchen. I should have taken the pictures at night so that the plants stood out clearly instead of just their shadows.

Here is the East wall in the living room.

Here is the picture window on the west wall.

Here is Topher's old game room, or the Plant Room as it is now being called. I want to move out the drawers that are left in there to the new spare bedroom, and then add a chair so that it can be the Reading Room. I probably should start calling it the Conservatory. 

I bought some eucalyptus from Smith's. Very thirsty, better smelling, and twice as many as Succulent Studios $20 bunch for only $7!

It will be fun to look back on this and see what ends up happening.....

Terry Turns 50!

Terry turns 50! Alex said, Happy Birthday you old bastard! Tim suggested we make pizza pasta, so I bought all of the ingredients and Tim and Toph cooked it. 

We also found this DELICIOUS peach ice cream

Alex, Brendon, Lyndie, and Ashley helped me decorate the garage

We didn't make the birthday sign...it came with the "a" and "y" transposed...

Here is Terry opening his present from Gina. It was a whole bunch of money, mostly $1 bills taped together and coming out of a money box. We took video, but it wouldn't attach here.

Here is the card she gave him. 

He picked out (and paid for) his own birthday "cake". It is a raspberry Boston cream pie. I got these really cool gold colored candles for the top. 

Here are some of the decorations...

I bought a crown for him, but totally forgot about it for the party. About a week later, he asked me about it because he saw it on the Amazon order summary. When I got the crown, I put it somewhere so that he wouldn't find it. I hid it so well, that as of this writing, I STILL don't know where it is! Hopefully I will find it for his 60th birthday. Happy birthday, T, I hope your day was special!