We went to Sue and Richard’s (in Newton) for a fourth of July cookout. I was tapped to make pies, a blueberry pie and a lime chiffon pie, for dessert. The menu always features grilled kielbasa, which I never get any other time. It was a little too rainy to eat outside, though I was left in charge of the grill to do the hamburgs before it really started raining. The fireworks started ahead of schedule — we weren’t at the field yet when the first rockets went up — because it was darker sooner than they expected. Watching fireworks in a light rain wasn’t bad. A good thing that they started early, too, because it was raining hard ten minutes after we got home.<\/p>\n
The highlight of the trip home was seeing an opossum crossing Centre Street, I think just on the Newton Corner side of the Cabot Street intersection. We weren’t sure at a distance what it was — Arlene said her first impression was of a 2-liter soda bottle rolling across the street — but we got a good clear look before it turned around and scurried back the way it had come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We went to Sue and Richard’s (in Newton) for a fourth of July cookout. I was tapped to make pies, a blueberry pie and a lime chiffon pie, for dessert. The menu always features grilled kielbasa, which I never get any other time. It was a little too rainy to eat outside, though I was … <\/p>\n