21 June 2014: Saturday ... Summer Solstice (longest day) ... Breakfast @ Crossroads (my treat) ... Walk w/Doug & Dancer Paper Mill Park ... dinner at the Back Burner (a dad favorite)

The morning starts on the stoop with Dancer, hugging her, and listening to the subtle cacophony of bird communication. It's lovely and the road sounds from Limestone are less in the early hours of this Saturday morn. I want to identify the birds but cannot. Listen for the cat's sound, a marker for the presumed "catbird" with the black Mohawk patch atop its prehistoric head (I saw it this Sun morning outside the kitchen window, perhaps I should spread bird seed on the roof like dad did for years). 

We took a walk, together (Doug, Dancer and I) through the woods located along Middle Run Creek which runs beside Paper Mill Park, about 1.5 miles over a mountain bike trail with considerable ups and downs. And Doug enjoyed it even as we had to avoid the plenitude of Canadian geese doo-doo on the walkway around the park's perimeter. There was a child's birthday party going on with an inflatable jumping tent beside the eating covered area. 

Get a sneak peak of our new shop at "A New Nite Downtown" until 9 pm. We are in front of 58 E Main Street. 

A gentle suggestion from Gordon Roth "TO GET A MTB".

newarkbikeproject.org 

136 South Main Street, Newark, DE 19711 | Promoting bicycling to the community of Newark, Delaware,
two wheels at a time.

Back Burner Restaurant in Hockessin where we had dinner tonight.

I had two Heinekens (my limit) during the meal, in honor of dad, who was not a beer drinker but a dry (wave the Vermouth cap over the gin) martini enjoyer, that I shared with Doug last evening in the above restaurant, a favorite of dad's.