I finally crawled out of bed at 8:00am Saturday morning, feeling so much better than the last couple of days. But even before having coffee, Sue suggested that I should water the grass as it was going to be another very hot, humid day. After taking care of that and some other things around the house, Sue and I were off to do the shopping for the party.

Saturday 07/06/13 Sue and I hosted The Great 2013 4th of July Backgammon Tournament And Light-em-up Spicy Black Bean Salad Explosion!. Though really hot and humid, we spent the first part of the party out on the deck, and then went in for dinner.

The games went smoothly, and, despite the heat, Sue had made some refreshing specialty strawberry, watermelon Margaritas that hit the spot! For dinner I made a cool Light-em-up Spicy Black Bean Salad over herb basmatti rice. Well, it wasn't that spicy! I held it down to just nicely seasoned. But it was great.

And for desert Sue had spent the morning concocting a Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp. A nice cool top off to the meal itself. We finished off the evening with the 2013 movie Gangster Squad

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