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Father's Day 2017


Bruce was thrilled to receive the book Running With Raven for Father's Day when we opened presents tonight after another family barbecue at our house.  We had three dads here tonight for dinner; my brother, Bob, Bruce and my sister's husband, Jim.


It was a smaller crowd that last Sunday when we had 16 people here but still another delicious meal. 


 Lauren and Ari brought a marinated green salad from Metropolitan Market deli (our favorite neighborhood grocer) that had summer squash, eggplant and various other vegetables; Barbara and Jim brought a homemade green salad and bread; Bob and Jennifer brought a homemade quinoa salad and teriyaki chicken that we cooked on the grill


and we provided drinks and appetizers of smoked salmon and caprese. (mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil with a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar.)


The drinks were once again Mai Tai's and gin & tonics.  I'm beginning to see a pattern to this summer already.  


 Bob's son (my nephew, Cameron) made dessert of brownies but they apparently turned out to be more like chocolate wafers. And we loved them!  We made them into ice cream sandwiches or cookies and cream.  Our family can be very creative when it comes to anything edible.  There wasn't a crumb left.


 My brother-in-law received a new backpack for his trip to Europe next month.  


 Summer will prove to be a busy time for everyone and soon we will all be going here and there and doing all kinds of fun things.  I love summer! You might remember when I wrote about Bruce running with Raven in 2014.  And then he ran with him again in 2016 before we went on our cruise. 


 Well, now there is a book about Raven.  I knew Bruce would love it as a gift and he did.  Everyone enjoyed paging through the book reading little tid bits about Raven who has been running his eight mile stretch on South Beach since 1975, never missing a day since.  Yes, that's right.  15,345 days and counting - straight days of running eight miles for 40 years.  And Bruce was his number 1,942 running companion.  You see, people from all over the world join Raven on his run and he documents it all on his website, sort of a modern day Forrest Gump. Raven is an inspirational story, a perfect addition to our Father's Day celebration.










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