What's new at the beach?

Monday night at the movies!  Starring our new inflatable movie screen on which movies are projected.  Movie goers bring chairs and blankets and relax on the beach to watch.

Popcorn and ice cream in hand, the crowd assembles for tonight's movie.

Fathers Day on the Cove

What a perfect day on the Cove!  Fathers being honored, and a beautiful day with lots to do.

David is trying out his new paddle board

Larry joins Jack and Will on their scooters

Jim and Dave take out the sailboat

Fireworks!

Cukes

The garden is currently prolific in crunchy cucumbers, and I have a great recipe for easy, fast microwave pickles from my friend Anne.

Yesterday's pick

Early this morning I began slicing, measuring and microwaving.

Pickles!

MICROWAVE PICKLES

2-3 large cucumbers, sliced thin

1 onion, sliced thin

1 c sugar

1/2 c white vinegar

1 tsp mustard seed

1/4 tsp celery seed

1/4 tsp turmeric

1/2 tsp salt

Mis together and microwave for 8-9 minutes

Store in fridge

Last strawberries

Think that we have had our fill of fresh strawberries as their long reign over the fresh fruit corner of our local market is waning.

In honor of finishing our last bowl of this delicious fruit, I made strawberry biscuits....also made some strawberry lemonade.

Day at Assateague

Here I am with Wayne and Joanne, our dear friends who visited with us this week.  We are at Assateague where we got up close to the wild ponies who were enjoying beach time.  The newest pony is in the background laying down for her nap.  She has been named Giggles.

The ponies travel in bands (like families) with a mare who takes the lead and a stallion who stays in the back and protects from danger of other stallions who try to steal the mares and people who come too close.  Here are the mares in this band all lined up for the photographer.

Still strawberries

Strawberries were early this year and are still being harvested.  How fine is that to have a long strawberry season?

These are our strawberries...we share with the birds.

And here is my scratch angel food strawberry cream cake.....thanks, Martha!  I think I nailed it.

Music and moon

Ella (top left) is being patriotic and waving a flag during her spring concert.

And Layne sings her heart out during her concert (she is 2nd from left in the 2nd from bottom row).

Here is Keelyn at her spring concert on Monday evening.  The blue scarf she wears with her black and white dress denotes Select Singer, a special group of very talented middle schoolers who also sang in the concert.

Last night Jim took pictures of our new Indian River Bridge as the full moon rose.   Blue lights shine up to the suspension cables and the look is unique, especially in the moon light.