A Day at Home and We Celebrate a Birthday

We spent a lazy day at home today. Even though Mount Vernon is quite an urban community, Daughter MM's house is on a ridge. Their house is down a gravel road off of a culdesac in a wooded area. We have seen several does and fawns when we've been here previously, but this is the first time we've seen this very nice buck. His horns are still in velvet --

Tomorrow is Mary Mae's birthday, but since Scott will be at work tomorrow and GD Claire has rehearsal tomorrow evening, we decided we would celebrate today.  Scott barbecued steaks for dinner along with some little summer squash I had marinated in olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Scott and Claire had gone out earlier and gotten her a chocolate ice cream cake to go with.

MM's blender decided to go up in smoke this morning when she was making Dutch Babies for all of us, so it was easy for Scott to decide what to get her for her birthday. I gave her the silk scarf I had found for her at Pike Street Market.

After dinner we all watched Crocodile Dundee. It's been a long time since we had seen that movie and it was fun watching it with the Varick and Claire. I remembered the scene where the crocodile almost gets Sue and the one where Dundee walks across the top of the subway crowd, but had forgotten most of the rest of it. It certainly is a classic.