Saturday Night in California

It has been a week today that I got back from Texas. It is beginning to feel like home. We got up this morning and went for a walk, which is all uphill on the way back, I might add, so it got our hearts pumping pretty good. Randy is outside washing his car, and I am inside having just made cream puffs for our company tomorrow night. We will be going today to buy a lemon tree for the patio. Everyone here has lemon or lime trees planted in yards and they just look so Californie (yes that is a word, in my world, anyway). So we will be off to explore the nurseries and buy a few plants for the patio today. We started to wonder what we should serve tomorrow night and Randy wants an “all junk food weekend” so we are having sloppy joes,salad (yes, the people out here always have a salad, no matter what they serve, fruit (we had to have fruit instead of chips because everyone out here does that) and cream puffs. That is our way of “meeting them in the middle, fruit instead of chips). Our new friends don’t know that we have a stash of chips in the den, so will be making several trips to “check out the game scores” in the den. I will just have to remember to take a napkin in the den to wipe the chip off our faces before coming back into the kitchen. Tonight instead of partying down with the stars down in the Grove, Randy and I will be looking for great hiding places to stash our chips, french onion dip and Dr. Peppers. No one out here drinks anything but bottled water or Chrystal Light. We will let you know if we get caught, sneaking our Texas trash food. If we do, we will just pretend that we are “under the influence” of Dr Pepper and we couldn’t help ourselves.