Al and I truly live in a wonderful town with terrific neighbors and ex-neighbors too. From left to right in bottom left picture.... John and Alana former Ryderwood residents now living close to Olympia, WA, then Stella and Jerre (our super neighbors) who had the 4 of us over for a great luncheon. Stella was raised in Hawaii and loves that cuisine, so she served us a culinary delight of Chinese Chicken Salad. I told Stella we would bring the dessert and my superman husband got up early today, went out on the logging roads that surround our town and picked an ample amount of fresh blackberries and made a blackberry cobbler. In the upper right picture Stella has the blackberry cobbler with French Vanilla ice cream ready to serve and Jerre is supervising. Everything was wonderfully ono (that is yummy in Hawaiian).

Visit my blog soon to see my cousin Diane's visit. Please check back! She is adorable and much cuter than I am...by far...