Adventures with Mom!

Last week my Mom was here to visit and since she is thinking about moving down here in the next couple of years, I think it was a good thing for her to come in mid-July to see just how much she still liked North Carolina when it is 95 degrees and humid every day. She has always hated the cold and weighs in at a whopping 95 pounds (which amounts to zero insulation), so needless to say the heat didn't bother her in the least. We had a great time together and

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crammed a ton of activities into the week she was here. The first night we took her to Ace Speedway which is just a couple miles from our house (you can hear the cars from our back deck on Friday nights, so cool!) and spent half the time watching the race and the other half watching the people... both were very entertaining!
Saturday we went to Reidsville to pick up some canning supplies at Saunders Hardware, which is a fun place to go because they actually still have appliances from the 70's that are still brand new in the box (but with updated prices!) Picture a harvest yellow waffle maker and the original Osterizer blender, brand new...crazy!!

On Sunday we invited Melissa and Ronnie over to shoot skeet...we all had a great time and it was nice to know I can still shoot pretty well after several years without practice. Neither Melissa or Ronnie had ever shot skeet before, and if you've never done it you'll quickly realize it's a lot tougher to hit a moving target than a stationary one, but they were quick learners and busted up a few skeet before the day was over. Then we celebrated our victory over the clay pigeons with some margaritas and steaks on the grill (and turkey brats for me), it was a perfect day :)
Later in the week Mom and I visited the local winery and were quite impressed with their wines! Who'd have thought NC had any decent wines? I am proud to admit that I am finally starting to acquire a taste for red wine (although the full-bodied ones are still bit too much for me). I feel all grown up and semi-sophisticated now...ok not really I know I'm still mostly a redneck...but I can pretend! :) Mom also helped me make garlic-dill pickles with our over-abundance of cucumbers, I can't wait to try them! Right now the tomatoes are only producing a couple of ripe ones each day, but there are a ton of green ones on the vine, so I'll bet next week it will be time to start canning and making salsa, who hoo!!