Thanks everybody for the blogaversary love and the congratulatory comments. I took them to heart and, uh, *celebrated* just a little...per your instructions. (ha ha) Yes, I’m blaming YOU for my bad behavior here.
The Mister doesn’t help either. He thinks we should start every morning this way. We split this giant croissant (from our favorite French pastry shop) in half as it was, but I munched on so many strawberries this week I gave myself hives. I just can’t resist these tiny ripe ones, they’re so sweet and delicious. The rest is safely put up in jam jars now, but I threw in the towel after the second batch because the temperature soared to 102 degrees here in the valley on Saturday! Just too hot to be standing over a boiling pot. Too hot to do be doing anything but floating neck deep in a pool of water, I say.
Instead, we went to watch the regional horse trials (out here) yesterday. The weather wasn’t as hot as the day before, but still, significantly warmer than usual, (about 90 degrees and humid). Particularly uncomfortable for spectators as there was no place to sit down or duck out of the sun, which was searing through my hat. The riders and horses seemed to be handling it beautifully, but I still felt sympathy for them all buttoned up in their riding costumes.
Sarah, is going through a horse phase. Horses have been on her mind and in her daydreams for some time now actually, and she's been piecing together a large wall mural with detailed drawings of scenes just like these, with riding arenas and horse ranches, and continues to expand the "facilities" so that the mural is about six feet by four feet at the moment and probably growing as we speak. It's fantastic.
Anyway, we’d been standing and watching the competition for about an hour, when she suddenly went pale and collapsed in a dead faint into her father’s arms. She came out of it OK, but that was the end of that. She was done in. Not sure if it was the excitement or the heat, or both, but we went straight back home and consumed lots of iced lemonade and strawberry sorbet.
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Got some good pictures though. Love this one, it looks like a carousel horse! More my speed.
Oh, the poor thing - I hope she feels better now! I'm intrigued by that mural of hers - pictures please?
Happy blogoversary to you - it looks like you celebrated it the right way - that croissant looks delicious!
Posted by: mathea | June 30, 2008 at 08:35 AM
It's so scary when kids faint! My 7-year-old passes out at the sight of blood. Yikes!
Posted by: Lizzie | June 30, 2008 at 08:47 AM
Your blog is looking just beautiful!! I love your photography. What a delicious breakfast :o)!! I went through a horsey phase when I was about 10, too!! I'd get horse magazines from the library at school and pore over breyer and julip model horse catalogs. Take care & stay cool! Keep drinking that lemonade and eating those strawberries!
xox,
Linnea
Posted by: Linnea | June 30, 2008 at 12:31 PM
It sounds like heat and hormones. When I was that age, I used to faint in church.
Posted by: diane | June 30, 2008 at 01:03 PM
~Bless your heart sweet Ginger. Hope your feeling better. ~Mandy
Posted by: Amanda Roberts | June 30, 2008 at 06:47 PM
Charming blog. That last photo needs to be made into a block for a horsey quilt. Piano keys and all feet up. Too Cute!
And sorry about the kid, but if you're going dead faint into someone, who better than Daddy!
Posted by: Judy | June 30, 2008 at 07:14 PM
That looks fantastic. I thought maybe you were in there riding at first!
Posted by: Mary Smith | June 30, 2008 at 11:26 PM
Well, I just want to whip up a mint julep now! :) And I don't even know what's in a mint julep, it just seems like the right thing to do.
Posted by: Tammy | July 01, 2008 at 08:33 AM