A day of firsts

This is my first ever blog post. Thanks to my new friend Brooke for introducing me to it. I met Brooke over the weekend at her house where she hosted a fabulous dinner party. I ate my weight in homemade ravioli with gorgozola cream sauce. I am very much looking forward to future culinary events and getting to know Brooke and her family better.

Maddie and I went to Priest Point Park for the first time today and hiked down to the ocean. It was low tide and the signs all said something about not touching anything and showering thoroughly if you do. Of course the first thing Maddie does is bound off into the mud flats and get her shoe caught so she falls and rolls the back of her body in the mud. Good thing I am not a germ-a-phobe. What doesn't kill us...right? We did see our first Sand Piper not in a book and Maddie actually knew what it was. My budding ornithologist can remember bird names better than I can.

Another first was our dinner tonight. I picked some fresh zucchini from the garden and fried it up in wedges like I had once a hundred years ago at Red Robin. I think they used a beer batter and I just used an egg wash and panko bread crumbs so mine were tasty but different. I also roasted some beets and potatoes. So for the first time in a long time we had a vegetarian meal. We are sans Dad this week so we can be less carnivorous while our T-rex is at his work conference.

I saw my first swallow tail butterfly on our Budliea today but it was too late to get Maddie to have a peak. She is ready with her butterfly net. I just hope she can wield it carefully enough not to injure the beautiful creatures. Ever since Grandma Darlene bought her the Fancy Nancy Butterfly book she has been dying to try out her net.

I will close for tonight.