Saturday morning was spent hacking into the jungle that has become our own personal amazon here in E-town. Today was finally the day we had been dreading .... the unseasonal and early pruning of one of Washington's own, the Rhodie. Dont get me wrong, rhododendrens...they are a nice enough plant - in fact I was telling the kids that when I lived in Rotorua, the lovely house we had on the hill had a rhodie tree that was one of the most beautiful things ever with huge scarlet blossoms it rose about 25 feet into the air. This is the sort of rhodie I want our 2 foot want to aspire to be. Mr Big worked hard and sawed off all the limbs that had decided to go out instead of up and we put steaks into the ground around it to encourage the reaching towards the sky thing. Watch this space, luscious and tall rhodie here we come SPEAKING OF WHICH - check out Audrey.....
We had to name her when her leaves grew (literally) overnight to be larger that our heads and her height tipped 6ft. If you come visit the Allen Abode anytime soon you might want to give her a wide birth in case she is the man eater we named her after!
After gardening we decided to do back to school re-enactment photos even though we were sans Elmo. I felt the desire to do these pictures because, well, I pretty much was compelled by jealousy, of all those awesome Moms that thought to do this who posted their awesome pictures on Facebook. I salute you and your pictures. My dear girls which wonderful sports about my request and here are the results. Love you more than words can express Bob and Spot.
Beautiful girls inside and out.
Once we had finished up with the photos we chatted for a while with Tiffany our lovely neighbor. Tiffany has a gianomic rhubarb plant in her garden and gave us some to stew up. I knew you would'nt believe how gianormic unless I showed you evidence. It looks somewhat juarasic dont you think?
While you are looking and marvelling at the size of this leaf let your eye look towards the house in the background. Yes - you are seeing a yellow house with orange trim. Let me tell you that this is our neighbors new neighbors house AND they just moved in and repainted it this color, by choice. This friends, is evidence in plain sight that contridicts what I have always thought - that ALL gays have good taste. Sad, but true..
After gardening we headed out to spectacular spectacular AKA Bothell High School Drama Production. We were forboden to use flash photography because "the actors" didnt like the flash and it took them away from "their art" so the only pictures I could snap were right at the end when the thank you's were going on. Unfortunatly I wasnt at the ready with the camera and so the best I got of El was...
Anyways - thank you BHS, a tres fun eve. The confetti glitter cannon was worth every penny.
Sunday we were up pretty late but not too late to call and serenade the Grammie with a lovely happy grandparent day original song we made up on the fly. Even though we never heard it in her voice when she thanked us, Im sure she was misty up and had already perhaps shed a tear at the haunting beauty that is the Allen Family Choir. We all got ready and headed over to Gramsterdam AKA Monroe and took her to the Sultan Bakery Cafe for lunch. I have mentioned this terrific little spot in the the past - she seemed to like it alot too. Just for the record, this picture has not been digitally altered and is a true representation of the enormity of the sandwiches (this blog is turning into stories about big things inadvertently..)
This is HALF of a turkey/cream cheese/cranberry sandwich - we were guessing that about 1/2 of a can of cranberry jelly was used in the making of this monolith. Love you Evelyn, thanks for being you and just shining as you always do!
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