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Picked and ate our first heirloom tomato. I wasn’t sure it was red enough. Mark remembers from last year they were ripe enough when they are still pink. It was the best veggie bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich I’ve have had all year. One tomato made two sandwiches. The yellow tomatoes are so sweet. They taste like candy. Not good for anything but snacking. I was sure hoping I would be able to have a BLT on Katie’s birthday. I wasn’t disappointed.

Sue called yesterday to asked what day was her birthday. We all guessed wrong and it’s today. I feel bad I didn’t get her card and present to her before they left. I didn’t even know their address to give to Sue. I could have sent it too, like Sue. She is a good Aunt. Katie and Anthony are out of town. They went to Los Angeles to see the premiere of Wall-E and then they were driving to Tahoe.

We went and saw Wall-E this afternoon. Mark couldn’t decide if he was working from home or going to take the day off. He ended up working.

We bought tickets at Costco last night. They turn out to be a dollar off the matinee prices. We wished we would have picked up a few more. We still haven’t seen The Incredible Hulk and Indiana Jones. We went home and Mark back to working.

The smoke in the air is thick. Can barely see the close mountains and hills. Didn’t even get a pretty sunset out of it. The Sun was blazing red the closer it got to the horizon.

Blue won’t eat any dry dog food except for Kibble ‘n Bits. You would have thought we would have learned with our last dog. Toshiba would starve to death before she ate any other kind. Blue isn’t as bad. He eats only certain colors and kicks the rest out of the bowl. Well, maybe that is worse. The mess is unbelievable, impossible to leave until he get hungry enough to eat it.

My mom has the same problem with her dogs. She started feeding them it and that’s all they will eat now. Her husband, George, calls it Kibble and Crack because they are addicted to it.

Today when we went to buy more dog food they didn’t have any of the kind he likes. We could only find a dog food called Wholesome Medley made by Kibbles n Bits. Mark is going to chance it. Blue loves Fruits and Vegetable. He wasn’t 100 percent sure of his choice because he bought a small bag. I’ll take pictures when he doesn’t like it.

Today on Martha Steward she said she had a blog on facebook that she alternates writing on with her myspace account. I was wondering how that works? Do you have to be her friend on Facebook? I couldn’t find it. I checked her website and sure enough it was there. That makes total sense that if you are a famous person your blog would be on your web site. She has a list of blogs she likes. I checked a few out.

On one blog it said it is legal for women to walk the streets of New York without their tops, Just last week I was saying to Mark the next legal right we will see is that woman can go topless in public and they will be as common of a site as men without their tops.

As a kid I never wore a top. My parents took pictures of me. When I was a teenager they loved to embarrass me with them every time we watched home movies and slides. I have to agree with the blogger, if men can go topless then women should be able too but wish everyone had to wear their shirts in public. Some over weight men look ridiculous.

No excitement here, I’m not taking any topless pictures with my iphone. I could ask Joey to model for me. He never wears a shirt around the house on hot summer days. It drives the cousins fruits and I always have to explain it’s okay for boys not to have their tops on.

Fire works have not been legal in Santa Clara County for many years if not decades. There are some cities within driving distant that still allow them, Gilroy and Watsonville are two. This year most cities that allow them are thinking about banning them because of all the fires even though the money made goes to charities. I can’t even believe there is a choice.

The neighbors have been having a 4th of July block party for at least the last seven years. They have fireworks and not just sparklers and ground spinners but the illegal exploding and launching into the air type, bottle rockets and Roman candles. The last few years we have avoid going because we don’t agree with this practice. They aren’t even very safe when they set them off. One year the person lighting them was bare foot (and drunk). It seems like an accident waiting to happen. This year I thought they had the sense not to have the fireworks. We hadn’t heard anything so I thought there might not even be a barbeque, but a flyer showed up at the door. It seems like a different family is organizing it but they are still asking for donation for fireworks. I think we have silently protested long enough and need tell them we are against the fireworks. I’m glad we have a roof made of metal and no dried weeds and trees in the yard, unlike a lot of the neighbors.

The solar pump stopped working. I think it was just running off the battery and not charging. I got it to work but it still flashes red. It must just be running off of the solar. The goal is to have the battery light flash green but I would settle for yellow. I hope Mark can figure it out.

The fridge is leaking water and it stopped making ice. I wonder if it is fixable. I don’t want to have to buy a new one. We’ve probably had it 10 years. I miss not having ice. Joey says it’s not good for me anyway.

I have been having success with the updated version of onOne Software and Photoshop element 6. I like trying all the new frames. It does make my iphone pictures perfect.