Back to Family Home Page
Rose Family Website
06/30/22: 4th Of July Holiday Weekend

We actually just had a pretty quite and relaxing 4th of July weekend. Living in the beautiful Lakes Region of New Hampshire, major holidays like this result in hordes of tourists flooding into the area, and clogging up the roads. We choose our times to go anywhere carefully, and just stay on some of the back roads when we can. It's more scenic anyway....

So, for us: the holiday actually began on Thursday the 30th. After watching a new sealer coating being laid down on the driveway, we had a marvelous dinner out to The Breeze restaurant on the water in Gilford, NH.


Current Picture
New driveway sealer looking good!


Current Picture
Beau helping Sue work in the upper rock wall flower garden.


Current Picture
The Orange Day Lilies in the front flower garden have bloomed!


Current Picture
View of the lake from our table at The Breeze Restaurant


Current Picture
Celebrating the 4th of July and my largest currency trading monthly profit of $30,000 in June at The Breeze, on the water in Gilford, NH.

We had the duck as an appetizer. Sue loved it, and for me it was good - which is huge because I really don't care for duck as it tends to be a bit oily (if that's a good term) for me. But this was done really well, and I'd even have it again. And the really tasty raspberry cheese cake we had for desert was a great ending. For dinner, Sue had the salmon and enjoyed it, but it was just a bit too spicy for her. I had the chicken, and the flavors and herbs were perfect, as was the side of asparagus, all going well with the lovely 2020 Cedar + Salmon Willamette Valley Pinot Gris Sue had, and the Clayhouse Paso Robles Cabernet I selected.

Saturday's tale: And of COURSE: while walking with Sue and The Beau Dog today along River Road, Sue stops and is taking pictures of some random plant.


Current Picture

"What's the big deal with that stuff?" I asked lamely - City Boy is not conversant with plants....

"Oh," she says, casually continuing her walk, "that's water hemlock, a really poisonous plant that I've just noticed growing all over the sides of the hill along here." Really....

I think nothing of it until we get home and she sends me this link to a USDA government site.

After reading that, I did some further investigation and found the following happy facts about this stuff:

  • Water hemlock is the most violently toxic plant that grows in North America.
  • Do not burn the plant, as the smoke can contain deadly toxins. In fact, hemlock is so poisonous that some of poison hemlock's alkaloid compounds have the ability to pass into milk when animals feed on sublethal amounts of this plant, which can adversely alter the flavor and safety of milk used for human consumption.
  • Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) is now naturalized in almost every state in the United States. It was introduced in the 1800s as a garden plant, marketed as being a “winter fern”.

Terrific. Absolutely terrific....

Sue got a couple of great shots of the fireworks from the ridge Monday night.


Current Picture


Current Picture


Current Picture
A final late night shot of Dr. Jack Daniels to celebrate not only the 4th, but again my $30k June trading profit - gotta celebrate.

Back to Family Home Page