Sea Girt, NJ

Drove 60+ miles to Sea Girt. And the corgi walked about 2 blocks.

Sea Girt lighthouse in the background....

Surfing in NJ is always wet suit season !!!

Ocean Grove, NJ

Finally took a trip to Ocean Grove, NJ. (Just south of Asbury Park).  Really amazing place - i think it has more original Victorian houses and rooming houses than Cape May.  Plus, the camp grounds and tents.


THE TENTS - Still in use and quite popular.

THE AUDITORIUM.........

THE BEACH - YES, IT HAS BEEN TAGS IN SEASON. 4-story Victorians along the park.

The Snows of the Past.... Last Week

View to the Street.

Shoveled the walk for the mailman.

Ice berg forming in the street

Looking down the street

Crab apple tree and Japanese Maple

Heap O' Snow

125' long X 8' wide

Back Yard

Walking around the neightborhood

More Neighborhood

Golf Course - with new stream (added after last flood)

Feeder Stream to the Golf Course

It never broke

Ice

The Corgi Path !!!

More Corgi Path !

Feb. 14, 2014 - More Snow

no comments needed...........

Feb. 4, 2014 - SNOW, SNOW, and MORE SNOW

It was only about 8" of wet and heavy snow. It took 4 hours to clear the driveway (125' X 8'), and paths (including a separate path for the dog).

Will have to hike out to the golf course today and take more photos.

Street view - 1/2 way down the driveway.... ice sheet on left.

The driveway - street view.

 The big crab apple tree (back) and the little Japanese Maple (front)

Entrance to back yard.... can't see the path I created for the dog.

Ice sheet at the end of the driveway.

View down the street.

Gingerbread House - Finished

Now I know why no one makes a geodesic dome house out of gingerbread.
After several small disasters, the 2013 house is finished.... complete with dog house (and 3 black Scotties) and sharks in the stream and pond.

The long view....

Front view....

 Shark close-up....

 Top view...

Dogs in front of the dog house...

Geodesic Dome Gingerbread House

Building a Geodesic Dome Gingerbread House - part competition/ part fund-raiser.

The finished house will be on a 16" x 16" square of double foam board, covered with aluminum foil.
The 'plot' will contain the house, a small dog house (with black Scottish terriers - licorice), snowmen and trees, with a path.

This is not a kit - I made the pattern and the gingerbread from scratch.

All items must be edible (part of the contest rules).

The theme for the house is: SPARKLE !

Day 1: The paper model - to get the scale right. It's a little ragged, but I got the scale right, pasted on some gold and silver sparkle paper (to be replaced by pastry sprinkles on the real one), tested some candies for the path and the snowmen.

Day 2:  A gingerbread prototype: to test the gingerbread recipe, to practice cutting gingerbread with from the pattern, test grating the gingerbread to get the edges straight and smooth (for gluing with royal icing).

Gingerbread out of the oven - cooling. Enough (isosceles) triangles for two pentagons, plus two equilateral triangles to join two pentagons together.

Pentagon pinned on foam board to position it - the center is raised, so it will be 3 dimensional when it's part of the house.

The dog house - all of the edges have been grated so they fit together.












Day 3: Whip up a batch of royal icing and glue the parts together.

Day 4: Glitter and decorations testing......

A Corgi Day at the Beach

First, you get your peoples to drive you to the beach.
Here's my peoples - hard at work driving Miss Millie (me).

Here's a picture of me (Millie) waiting to get to the beach. It was a looooong ride.

Then, when you get to the beach, you have to walk for a loooong time to get there.

Here's how long it took:

Starting out. I can't even see the beach.....

More walking......

I tried to turn back.... it was just too far to walk......

FINALLY !!! I could SEE the water.......

I was so exhausted !!!  Here's the rest of my walk on the beach:

The End....... by me (Millie).