Too much fun

We had a fun evening at our favorite sushi restaurant. Love Boat Sushi is tucked in to the local Lowe's strip mall. We started going there when we spent EVERY weekend at the shopping center.

But now we've become 'family' as they said the other night. We had a fabulous fresh fish with a bit of sake on the side.

Then the owner decided we needed flaming sake bombs, one problem though... they weren't made with sake. Yukon Jack and Sapporo, not a good combo people.

But all in all a good time, great time even.

Long legs make long shadows

It's going to be another warm day here today. Nothing like the east coast, but hot none the less. No breeze, no air conditioning, but lots of baking sunlight.

I've been trying to keep my newly planted garden alive by giving it just enough water to keep the plants from wilting. This theory will hopefully make the plants root deeper making them hardier.

By the time the cooler days of autumn arrive, I should have stronger, happier garden dwellers.

A pink morning

Good morning. I've been thinking about this pink verbena for the last few days. So today we have a pink morning.

It's very hot here in Southern California this week, today is a high of 81. Which might not sound like much, but when it is usually 72 with a cool ocean breeze, the hotter temperatures are very noticeable. There is no breeze, no air conditioning and no clouds to break the heat from the sun even for a moment.

Hopefully it will break soon and we can go back to the weather I prefer to brag about!

I also found some newly blooming fuchsia. Fuchsia has always seemed to me to be hard to grow. Until now. We have these plants as 'leftovers' from our wedding. I'm so thrilled they are not only still alive, but that they are blooming!

And lastly, the sky was just such an incredible shade of blue, which means the ocean will look fantastic today, that I had to stage a photograph.

Here is my coffee cup (a gift from the World's Best Mother-in-law) and that fabulous sky.

A misty morning

I love to see what the morning looks like when I open my eyes. This morning it was an exceptional find. The deck had a heavy coat of dew.

I found the remnants of a nighttime spiderweb. The dew droplets were dangling ever so delicately.

And a beautiful sky.