Partying Hearty!

I woke up early on Saturday (I must have overdone that relaxing thing). I checked the temperature and it is was only 60 degrees outside! So, I opened a bunch of windows to help the air conditioner later.

Today my mission is to go to Jake and Carla's for a pool party. Besides me, the guests include Acenter (Carla's Mom) and Jeremy's family. As usual, I messed up the timing. After Saturday Morning Over Easy was done (say 11:30-ish) I shaved and took my shower. But, I didn't have to be there until 2:00 PM. So, I thought a half hour nap might do me good. I woke up at 2:15 PM! I was frantically getting ready when the phone rang. It was Carla, wondering where the hell I was.

I thought I'd make up time by using the expressways, but I-275 was a parking lot. I got off on Lucas Creek Road and went to Eastwood. That worked okay until I got to the main street heading into their subdivision. There was a stopped train across the track. I waited for a bit but it wasn't moving. To demonstrate how close I was, if the dumb train wasn't sitting there, I could see the back of their house. Finally, I turned around and tried other cross streets. Nope, still had the train. Finally, I went to Denbigh Avenue and over to Moyer and came back down. I got there about an hour late.

I greeted everyone and gratefully accepted a beer. They had told me not to make or bring anything and at that point I understood why. There was enough food to feed an Army regiment!

Let's see if I can list all of it: As far as protein goes, there was pulled pork (Jake had me taste test it when he was adding barbeque sauce - It was perfect and I told him so), 1/3 pound hamburgers, hotdogs, smoked ribs and barbecued chicken legs.

For sides there was Acenter's potato salad, corn and tomato salad and coleslaw. There was also lettuce leaves, pickles, onions and sauerkraut as toppings.

Dessert was cupcakes and later, Jake broke out the cookies he had ordered from Germany.

It has been quite a long time since I had a decent burger, so that's what I chose, along with a spoonful of the coleslaw and the potato salad. All were excellent! Unfortunately, that's more than I've eaten in a couple of months so I couldn't try the ribs and chicken.

I think the only ones who actually went swimming were Riese, Joe and Carla. I tried to talk Acenter into going in, but she said no way was she putting a bathing suit on a 54-year old body. Funny, but whenever I was talking about this, both my kids and my grandchildren quickly excused themselves from the room.

Now, about the Germany cookies: Back in the day, my German relatives used to send a big tin box of them every year to my Mother and Dad and then to my Mother. She would share them with us kids and grandkids. Apparently, Jake had a jones about them, so he ordered a tin box from Germany! Unfortunately, most, if not all had nuts in them (Carla's allergic). So, late in the afternoon, he broke them out. Mindful of my diabetes, I just had a small piece, but, talk about bringing back memories! He made a plate up for Jeremy's family and a big one for me. I had to promise I would take them out to Lake Orion on Monday for my daughters.

Carla also made me a big tub of leftovers: some of the potato salad, the coleslaw, the corn salad, two chicken legs and some of the ribs.

Jeremy and his family left about 6:00 PM (we gave them the traditional wave on the porch) and I left about 20 minutes later.

I forgot my swimming suit, towel and the hedge trimmer.

I took the leftovers inside, but left the cookies in the car to avoid temptation.

I took the time to water the new grass, the herbs and the lavender.

My friend B___ called to see how the pool party went. He mentioned that Turner Movie Channel (TMC) was hosting an all day movie marathon starring Errol Flynn (one of both of our heroes) and the next one coming on was "The Sea Hawks." So, when it came on, we hung up and I watched it.

I stopped it at one point (there are no commercials on TMC) and make a cold supper plate with one of the chicken legs and all of the potato salad. Messy, but excellent!

I went to bed at 11:00 PM.