Now that the swags in the border of the whole-cloth quilt are finished, I'm filling in the rest of the border up to the edge. Some progress happened during the week. I started the week with only the corner completed and most of the swags done. Now I'm a couple of feet in from the corner and moving along.
We had another Madroña pop-up "meeting," basically a wine-lovers online party. I had to sneak out early, though, because we had another rehearsal for this year's Sound Fourth concert that night. We had a Madroña Grenache Rosé with the pumpkin pasta leftovers. I only had a little of the wine because I was driving myself to practice.
We got in some walks during the week. We had been admiring the lovely ground cover at one point along the trail where the homeowner had put up some pairs of jeans filled with potting soil and plants. You may remember this photo of the arrangement in my June 2 post, showing the little astronaut the homeowner had made out of the porthole in the fence for his dog to look out. The plants at the base of the display were of interest.
They have grown and filled in since I took that photo, and the ground cover is impressive now. We wanted to know what it was, so I took a couple of photos and did a search. It's called Spotted Dead-nettle. It's related to Coleus, and it's a perennial. Now we have to find some.
Thursday evening we had our final rehearsal before the big performance. This is how it looked when I walked in.
Friday was the Fourth of July. The concert was at 3:00 PM, but we had to be there at 2:15. This was my view with still 20 minutes to go before the concert began. By "curtain-up" the seats were mostly filled.
There are always a few glitches, and this year was no exception, but it was a lot of fun and the audience really seemed to enjoy the performance. I'm getting pretty good with the kazoo, which we used in the "Colonel Bogey's Grand Old Flag" piece, which is a combination of George M. Cohan's "It's a Grand Old Flag" and Colonel Bogey's March from the 1957 film "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
When the fireworks started later that night, Dusty went and hid, Charlie went out to the trail for a better view, and Sandy and I got up on the daybed in the workroom, where we watched the fireworks through the window. It was hard to get a good photo with just my phone camera through the glass with the dark sky and the moving lights, but Sandy and I had a good time watching. The fireworks don't seem to distress Sandy, which is a blessing.
Earlier in the evening, Charlie and I started watching "1776," one of our favorite movies. After the fireworks were done, we watched the rest of it. Dusty came out of hiding only after the fireworks stopped, which was very late at night.
We're going camping for a few days this week, so I've been preparing food. I baked this sourdough loaf on Saturday.
I also made my no-boil lasagna and another batch of carob brownies to take with us.
Soren turned 13 on July 5th. He's a teenager!
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