Friday's Favorites Fare

READING:   Decided to read a bit on India's history and culture since I was doing the cuisine from there last month, so have been passing my reading time with that and some Willa Cather that I dug out and hadn't read in years, oh, yeah, and more college materials.

LISTENING TO:  The Traveling Wilburys

COOKING BYTES:  This month's My Kitchen My World cuisine is USA, so guess that will be an easy one and I don't really need to read up much for it.

FAV NEW FIND:  Windows all freshly washed, all 45 of them!  It always makes the rooms seem so much bigger with them so clean.  The outdoors just moves right inside.  Love it.   

FAV THING THIS WEEK:  Well, July 1st came and went with great success, as well as July 2nd.  July 1st is the first day that colleges can call high school swimmers entering their senior year regarding recruiting them for their college teams, according to NCAA rules.  Elite swimmers everywhere look forward to the date, wondering if colleges will call them, hoping the colleges they want to call them will call them, and nervous about it all because figuring college choices out is hard enough without needing to factor the whole swimming thing in there as well.  Recruiting has begun with a bang around here.  Our phones were ringing non-stop from 7:40 a.m. until Matt hung up finally with the last coach at 10:30 p.m. on the first day...everyone he wanted to call did call, some he had no clue were going to call, called, and all in all, it looks like he is going to have some fine choices for college, all five of his Top Five called within the first few hours.  The second day was more of the same.  Life is good.
GOING TO:  Celebrate the Fourth!  Conner Prairie Symphony on the Prairie with Patriotic music on Saturday, Elwood for family gathering on Sunday, Fireworks, and to top it all off, a big party at Ali's house on Monday with fireworks because Buddy just can't resist celebrating in a big way...this year's theme includes remembering the IYC trip to Italy on the Fourth a few years ago, so have to think of something Italian to take along.          

   

PRAYING FOR:  Praying for our leaders, our service men and women, and prayers of thankfulness for being able to live here in the USA, please join me.