God bless

Though we hosted many cookouts at the Motel in the tiny, tiny front yard, I was very excited to have people over to our ginormous yard yesterday:

We set up some tables and put out some food and let our guests do the rest:

Croquet was played throughout the day:

And we drank “American Champagne”:

I started writing this journal 9 years ago, on July 1, 2000. Things have changed so much, it seems. I like where I ended up.