12 June 2016, Sunday -- Gala Concert of Italian Festival Cultural Event ...

Took photos at the 13th annual Gala Concert in St. Anthony of Padua church sanctuary of the Delaware Youth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simeone Tartaglione and one of the pieces played after the youth group was by a solo violinist and it touched me because it was a favorite of dad's, a piece foisted on the public by the multi-talented Fritz Kreisler, a recasting of an old masterpiece by Gaetano Pugnani, his Prelude and Allegro in his style:                           

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJUvPa7qC0Y

                       

11 June 2016, Saturday ... Doug's 58th birthday ... photo shoot of DSO Youth Orchestra at St. Anthony of Padua Church ...

                                                           We were milk drinkers.

Addendum (6/11/16): Coming from Maplecrest on our bikes, Peg and I saw Steve and Annie walking Kirby (Annie's leash) and Harriet (Steve's) at the park in Sheridan Square. They're such dear animals, perfectly named, and the abused one, used as bait (teeth filed down) for a dog fighting ring, Harriet, was quite affectionate and did not growl once. She even rolled over for Peg as she pet her. So nice to run into the two of them with their canine charges on a beautiful summer evening.

It's those lazy, hot, thirst-inducing days again ... "sumer is a cumin" ... and I drink three glasses of ice tea, which really doesn't quench thirst but entices it, at Peg's from a circular glass pitcher with a curved lip; but the day is hot, the interior of the car baking (need a reflector).

10 June 2016 Friday ... Peg's 2nd day on job @ Stacy's ... Patti visits shortly after Famatta comes to care for mom ... bought tail light for Honda ... bent to gather bush clippings

Beer Barrel Polka JibJab sent to Doug, Nick, Lindsay
Norma Clara, Norma Virginia, Peg and Susan, too,
for the first individual's 58th birthday tomorrow.

Went riding with Gordon last night starting about 6:30 from the baseball backstop at the park, whose name always eludes me for some unknown (early dementia perhaps) reason, and we hit the trails as we rode the Judge Morris course, which seemed endless and then through fields of glorious oats, we think (or at least Peg surmised, after I got home and she cooked a great steak dinner on the grill with corn on the cob and brussel sprouts).

9 June 2016, Thursday ... Peg handyman @ Stacy's ... lawn cut w/clippings for backyard ... brushed Dancer (lots of hair) ... birthdays of Eleanor Huether & Jay Gibson

    
She loves to have her belly scratched but dislikes when you pull on her feathers in the rear. That's her sensitive area. And boy did she produce a lot of hair that Peg said the birds would love for nesting material.

Today is the birthday of Peg's daughter Eleanor, who turns 29 today, and who, with her husband Chris, just bought a home in New York near her in-laws, a 4-bedroom place for just over $700K. It is also the birthday of Peg's second, adopted mother, Jay Gibson, who just loved the e-cards that I sent her from JibJab and AmericanGreetings.

Jay Gibson sheds light on her birthday.


Holy Trinity Greek Festival - 41st Anniversary, June 7 - 11, 2016
http://greekfestde.com/

A good time, a filled space where the seating is limited (we sat with young couples to eat our Moussaka and Spinakopita and Dolmades and then left, just as we finished, when another young couple came to join the other three at our table ... we did not have a conversation as many of the young people were invested into their smart phones) ... and then out to the dance area and the infectious Greek music and spirit and the line dancing holding hands or arm and arm. Peg pulled me out and used her international dancing expertise to get me on the right rhythmic path with feet and body movement. All in all, a good time for the evening.