{"id":70417,"date":"2023-07-02T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=70417"},"modified":"2023-07-03T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T18:53:48","slug":"sunday-has-arrived-we-get-ready-for-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=70417","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Has Arrived; We Get Ready For Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We got up and decided to head for the office first.\u00a0 It was a lazy day, I was up at 7:00 am, and Sleeping Beauty found her way out of the bedroom at 8:00 am.\u00a0 We were sipping our coffee and planning the day when the sideyard gate slammed; OMG, what could it be?<\/p>\n

It was the stork!\u00a0 His name was Carlos (our landscaper!)\u00a0 He and his youngest daughter, Camilla,\u00a0 delivered our grapefruit tree!<\/p>\n

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A perfect delivery!<\/p><\/div>\n

Camilla and Mary did a garden tour, and Mary gave her flowers to give to her mother.\u00a0 I am blessed with a thoughtful wife, always thinking of others.<\/p>\n

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Camilla and Scout hit it off!<\/p><\/div>\n

He came complete with four small but ready-to-grow grapefruits in his new home.\u00a0 Tomorrow we will get some small flowers around the tree’s base.\u00a0 The name for the Grapefruit was created by a Jamaican farmer when he noticed the fruit grew in clusters similar to grapes.<\/p>\n

Did you know the Grapefruit is a hybrid fruit?<\/strong> It was created by crossing a pomelo and an orange. Much of the history around the grapefruit mentions the fruit was created accidentally in the 1700\u2019s in the West Indies. In the early days the fruit was called the \u201cforbidden fruit\u201d and was mostly grown as a novelty fruit when it came to Florida in the 1800s. Today the United States is the leading producer of the fruit, with Florida as the top producing state.<\/div>\n

Why did the grapefruit fail his driving test?\u00a0 It kept peeling out.<\/p>\n

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Our baby has arrived!<\/p><\/div>\n

We are having a hoot-a-nanny on the 4th with Robin, Bob, Vicky, Jim, and Irene, so Mary thought some hor’s d’douvers would be nice.\u00a0 I gave her some pictures of potential candidates; we shall see what happens!\u00a0 We are missing Bob and Donna, but this was the weekend to go to Oregon and visit their daughter.<\/p>\n

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Mary practices her horses doo vers!<\/p><\/div>\n

Before anything else, we needed to check out the local OC Ranch Market, just up the hill from us, for beef bones.\u00a0 The gentleman behind the counter told us about bones and sold us two different types.\u00a0 Vanna White C\u00f4t\u00e9 did her thing in from of the counter!<\/p>\n

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We went shopping for ribs!<\/p><\/div>\n

While we were there, we walked the whole store as they had a lot of fascinating items not carried by the big chains.\u00a0 We snapped this picture and sent it to Joe and Amy; Amy responded, “This is a great brand, and I buy stuff from them all the time!”<\/p>\n

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Does Amy own a pizza company?<\/p><\/div>\n

Returning home, we unpacked the car and took a quick stroll through the backyard to see what we might need at Home Depot.<\/p>\n

Mary stumbled upon two frisky moths.\u00a0 It might take a block and tackle to tear these two love moths apart.\u00a0 They were so busy they did not ever see us watching (and taking notes).\u00a0 How do they do that without backup mirrors?\u00a0 I was puzzled!<\/p>\n

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Oops! Caught in the act!<\/p><\/div>\n

We went to Home Depot and got two containers of propane refilled and got some geraniums to fill the areas wonder of our Plumeria trees.\u00a0 On the way home, I suggested we stop and have a drink.\u00a0 We tried Aces, but it was so noisy we left before being served.\u00a0 Then we got the great idea to go to OC Mining Company; it was late enough that the brunch rush would be done.<\/p>\n

Mary had a glass of wine, and I tried Glenfiddich, 21-year-old Scotch.\u00a0 Well, I offered a sip to Dr. Mary with the following reaction!<\/p>\n

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First taste; it burns as it goes down!<\/p><\/div>\n

Then there is the aftertaste; we think Scotch is not one of Mary’s favorites.<\/p>\n

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Scotch 101; Failed!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Did You Know?\u00a0 <\/strong>The Glenfiddich Distillery was founded in 1886 by William Grant in Dufftown, Scotland, in the glen of the River Fiddich.\u00a0 The Glenfiddich single malt whisky first ran from the stills on Christmas Day, 1887.<\/p>\n

In the 1920s, with prohibition in force in the US, Glenfiddich was one of a very small number of distilleries to increase production.\u00a0 This put them in a strong position to meet the sudden rise in demand for fine-aged whiskies that came with the repeal of prohibition.<\/p>\n

Onsite there are 31 distinctively-shaped “swan neck” copper pot stills.\u00a0 These stills are smaller than those now in use at most other major distilleries.\u00a0 All stills are handmade, and Glenfiddich employs a team of craftsmen and coppersmiths to maintain them.\u00a0 \u00a0These stills have a capacity of around 13,000,000 liters of spirit.<\/p>\n

The water source for Glenfiddich Whisky is The Robbie Dhu Springs, nearby to the distillery.<\/p>\n

Glenfiddich is matured in American Bourbon Whiskey barrels of consumption in America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I unloaded the car and worked in the garden when we returned home.\u00a0 Mary began cooking up a storm.\u00a0 It was 86 degrees outside, but the house was in the mid-70s.\u00a0 I wore my short shorts to get slightly tan before going to Hawaii in a month!<\/p>\n

We decided the hot tub was needed after dinner, so I turned on the heater.\u00a0 It works well but is a little smokey!<\/p>\n

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The spa heater was on!<\/p><\/div>\n

Since it was time for warm water, we decided to take a bath.\u00a0 I ran inside and got the Cowboy Bubblebath!<\/p>\n

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Srub-a-dub-dub!<\/p><\/div>\n

Dinner was amazing.\u00a0 We had two huge steaks, one of which went into the frig as we could not finish them.\u00a0 We had fresh string beans and squash steamed to perfection, and Mary made some more bruschetta.\u00a0 Wow is a definite understatement!!\u00a0 Oh, she also tried her hand at making kale chips and did them perfectly.<\/p>\n

After dinner, watch an interesting documentary movie about folks going over the Oregon Train to Willamette Valley in the 1880s.\u00a0 Summary: Meek’s Cutoff is a 2010 American Western film directed by Kelly Reichardt.\u00a0 The film was shown in competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.\u00a0 The story is loosely based on a historical incident on the Oregon Trail in 1845, in which frontier guide Stephen Meek led a wagon train on an ill-fated journey through the Oregon desert along the route later known as the Meek Cutoff in the western United States.\u00a0 The film is formatted in the Academy ratio (1.37:1), a standard used in many classic Westerns.<\/p>\n