Weekly photo challenge: Today

Posted on June 1, 2012 by

Flat Ruthie gives a shout out to Chicago John – from Bartolini Kitchens blog for his expertise on the map counter insertion on the blogs. Photo taken just minutes ago TODAY.

See other bloggers responses at fellow bloggers responses

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Flat Ruthie on the Honeymoon Island Nature Trail – Florida

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

and another adventure with Liz of Garden Capture

Excursion two was to the Honeymoon Island Nature Trail where there were a pair of nesting eagles and a pair of great horned owls. Its a beautiful natural trail. There are several islands in the Dunedin area, west of Tampa, north of Clearwater/St Pete. Caladesi and Honeymoon Islands are really beautiful.

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Maybe You’d Enjoy a Visit from Flat Ruthie and Show Her Around Town

Posted on May 30, 2012 by
Flat Ruthie is getting ready to go to China and that’s exciting.  And Wales.  A couple of friends have Flat Ruthie pics in their cameras and I look forward to receiving them when they get time
I knowFR has visited 10 countries and 23 states now.  Here is a note from Betty and a link to her post.  Thank you Betty for hosting in San Diego.
Betty writes-
Ruth:
Here’s the last installment in our adventures;
Thanks for the opportunity to host Flat Ruthie. We had a great time!! Best of luck to you in the days ahead!
betty
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Chula Vista But Soak City Doesn’t Open Until June First!

Posted on May 29, 2012 by

Betty from Views From  Benches Blog writes on her post-

SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012

Fun in Chula Vista

Saturday….. Weekend fun…… We decided to take Flat Ruthie for a drive around the city we live in.
Chula Vista.
I hesitated in the past to give a definite city I have lived in but heck I hesitated in the past
to include a picture of myself on the blog
and we all know I changed that a few weeks ago
So I live in Chula Vista, California
Its a suburb of San Diego
but it is a pretty big city in of itself.
Its about 10 miles from the Mexican border and Tijuana.
It has picture perfect weather
and we are about five miles from the ocean
We per se don’t have a great beach with waves and sand
but we do have the marina that we walk Koda a lot at
We also have a place to go sky diving
Flat Ruthie wanted to sky dive
But she didn’t meet the weight requirement
and I don’t like heights.
so we didn’t sky dive

We also have an Olympic training center. I think they are really busy this time of year getting ready for the summer games in London.

It was getting lunch time so we decided to check out somewhere to eat. We happen to like the Cheesecake Factory. Who doesn’t with their delicious food and multiple choices of cheesecake?

We also have P.F. Chang’s. Good Chinese Food.
We couldn’t decide, so we kept driving.

It was a nice warm day, not super warm, but warm enough. We drove by Soak City, an outdoor water park, hoping to be able to go and cool off. Unfortunately, it hadn’t opened for the season yet (scheduled to open June 1).

I think Flat Ruthie enjoyed her day.

I enjoyed showing her Chula Vista and sharing the city I live in with you guys.  When my family first moved to California when I was seven years old, we lived in La Mesa, which is about 10 miles from here. It is a nice town too and I wouldn’t mind living there again.

When I got married, I moved to Chula Vista and we lived here for six years before we moved to Oregon.  We eventually moved back here almost 1-1/2 years ago. Hubby’s parents moved here in 1963 when his dad got transferred to San Diego with being in the Navy. They called it home for the rest of their lives.

Not sure if we will call it home for the rest of our lives. We’ll see where God takes us in the days ahead.

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The Sponge Docks-Tarpon Springs, Florida

Posted on May 28, 2012 by

Liz  (of  Garden Capture: Garden and Botanical Photography) writes:

Excursion to Tarpon Springs on an uncharacteristically rainy florida day, so what better place to be in the wet, but The Sponge Docks.

This is a little Fla gulf seaside town, developed by Greek immigrants who were brought there by a Chicago businessman for the purpose of sponge diving and developing a sponge industry.

Its a fascinating place and Ruthie fit right in, especially after meeting flat sponge diver

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Flat Ruthie at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia

Posted on May 27, 2012 by

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Flat Ruthie at PNC Park

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

Flat Ruthie resisted all the food available at the ballpark.

No hot dogs, no cotton candy, no beer, no peanuts, no nachos, no soda!

She had just eaten at home before she went to the game so saved a lot of $, too!

Good thing she went Monday night as it was the only night the Pirates won against the NY Mets this week.

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Sea Salt Making, San Diego Harbor, A Sunset and Vote for Jessica Sanchez says Flat Ruthie

Posted on May 22, 2012 by
Thanks to Betty from A Bench With a View  at Blogspot who is hosting Flat Ruthie in San Diego

MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012

Fun in the City

So Sunday afternoon we took our usual Sunday afternoon car drive with Koda (yes, he is that spoiled; he does love his car rides though :) We piled Flat Ruthie into the car and headed to show her the sights.

First stop was the sea salt making plant in our city. Those mounds are salt that have been made from ocean water evaporating leaving the salt. Not sure what they do with the salt though because on eating a hard boiled egg this morning for breakfast, hubby noticed the Morton’s sea salt came from Spain and we certainly don’t live in Spain. But it is impressive driving past them and Flat Ruthie seemed to enjoy the view.

Then we headed down to the San Diego Harbor. We were hoping to find a parking place and get out and do a little picture taking but it was a beautiful sunny day and everyone and their neighbor was out and about and we couldn’t find a close parking place and it was a bit warm so we couldn’t keep Koda in the car if we did decide to take a walk without him. However, Flat Ruthie quickly got out of the car and had her picture taken by the commercial fishing area part of the harbor. I believe tuna is something that is fished off our coast.

In the background is the Star of India, it is a ship from the 1880s; it is impressive to visit; its a museum now; it has been out to sea recently though; I think they refer to it as a tall ship.
The picture was taken from the car while we were waiting at a red light. Hubby is pretty quick at getting these pictures. It was hard for me to line Flat Ruthie up and hold Koda at the same time.
Our intention was to do a bit more driving in the San Diego area around the harbor, catching some more sights, but we drove right by the airport when a big plane was taking off. Koda doesn’t like loud noises like that and where we live, we are sometimes over the flight path of the Navy jets that are very loud, which makes Koda scamper for cover. Once he heard the big plane at the San Diego airport, he started quivering and shaking so we had to cut the visit short and head home. Flat Ruthie was very understanding.
Once we got home, we all took a nap. I’m happy to report Flat Ruthie doesn’t snore. I’m not sure about the rest of us.

In the evening we took Flat Ruthie down to the Chula Vista Marina where we walk Koda a lot. She enjoyed looking at the ships here.

What a beautiful sunset! We also saw a bit of the eclipse; we didn’t look at the sun but you could tell it was different than an average day!

On our way home we stopped by the local library. Jessica Sanchez, a local girl, is in the finals for American Idol. The city is pretty excited about it all; signs all across supporting her. Flat Ruthie and us will be glued to the TV Tuesday and Wednesday evening to see the season finale for American Idol and if Jessica Sanchez wins.

Alas, back to work for me today. Flat Ruthie is cool hanging around the house playing with Koda and doing some reading and Internet surfing. Our next adventure will be next weekend :)

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Someone’s In The Kitchen With Flat Ruthie- Woof!

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

http://viewsfrombenches.blogspot.com/2012/05/fun-in-kitchen.html

 

Fun in the Kitchen

So, as you all know, Flat Ruthie came to visit on Thursday and like I said yesterday, I was going to put her to work (lots of work).
But first she had to meet Koda.
I think the meeting went well.
Yes food was involved.
Then she and hubby got busy in the kitchen.
I was scheduled for hospitality at church today.
Something terrible happened last month when it was my team’s turn.
We ran out of food.
I don’t know how that happened, because I thought we had planned a good amount.
One of the team’s husbands had to run to the store in the middle of the second service to bring reinforcements.
I wasn’t going to let that happen again.
So I got my thinking hat on and began to plan this month’s.
And this is what we came up with.
Made this delicious creamy salsa dip. Cream cheese, sour cream, salsa and seasonings.
Served with tortilla chips; it was a hit.
Made a batch of chocolate chip cookies (from a boxed cookie mix).  Yum.

Made an apple crisp.  It was tasty.

Made raspberry bars; another yum.

Made lemon glacier bars, a crowd favorite.

Flat Ruthie and hubby were in the kitchen most of the day and into the late evening. I helped with the apple crisp and the cookies, otherwise, they did all the other things (I had to work in the morning).

What troopers they were! Thanks Flat Ruthie and hubby!

In addition, we brought cheese, salami, crackers, grapes, bananas, Cheese-Its, and regular salsa dip.

My other team members brought foot long sandwiches cut into about 12 pieces each along with more crackers and Goldfish and donut holes.

We had SO much food this time we all brought home leftovers (which hubby didn’t mind because he especially liked the lemon glacier bars).

So what did we all do after church? We took a little drive showing Flat Ruthie some of the sights, check back on Tuesday for where we went. And then we all took a Sunday afternoon nap :)

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San Diego Adventures for Flat Ruthie are Just Beginning

Posted on May 20, 2012 by

Yesterday St. Peter’s Basilica with Suzanne and Mark.

Today in the kitchen with Betty in San Diego. Cake mixes are unfamiliar and new to FR and she is wondering about the boxes she is posing with today. She looks happy to be there.

Can’t wait to see what happens next.

Amazing how FR travels  as fast as the speed of light and does not seem to suffer from jet lag.

The first link -

Six Words Saturday from Betty of View from the Benches blog

http://viewsfrombenches.blogspot.com/2012/05/fun-in-sun.html

Playing along with Cate’s 6WS today;
here’s mine
FLAT RUTHIE CAME FOR A VISIT

I found out about Flat Ruthie from reading another 6WS entry a few months back. Flat Ruthie travels the globe, like Flat Stanley does, having adventures and meeting new people.

I thought it might be fun to have Flat Ruthie come and visit us here in the San Diego area.

She arrived Thursday night. I’m looking forward to showing her the sights.

But first I’m going to put her to work (lots of work).

Come back tomorrow night or Monday and we’ll show you what we’ve been up to.

To check out more entries or to play along, click here

Thanks Betty.

 

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