Fourth of July Weekend

I hope everyone had a good 4th of July weekend.  These are some of the many flags I saw flying in our neighborhood during our early morning walk on Saturday.  I love the patriotism of this area.

In addition to seeing all the flags, I enjoyed seeing all the beauty in my garden and my neighborhood this weekend.   I am loving all the beautiful summer flowers all around my home.

There is also a lot of deliciousness in my garden right now.  All of my tomato plants are loaded with fruit.  I also have fresh peas and raspberries, and expect some fresh green beans soon.  This weekend, I harvested some of the peas and tomatoes that were ripe. Everything fresh from the garden was so good. 

Charly has been doing some painting out on our patio, and he worked on that Friday and Saturday. Charly is such a neat and meticulous painter. He took Sunday off and will finish this project on Monday.

Our 4th of July was fairly low key, due the virus.  Even fireworks in our area was cancelled, so Josh and I decided to go an evening hike. This trail is just north east of downtown Salt Lake City, in an area called City Creek Canyon.  

The trail goes off of the north end of this lovely city park known as Memory Grove where there there are a lot of monuments for soldiers from Utah who died in the various and wars from the past century - World War I and on. Josh and I enjoyed getting outside and hiking this trail on the evening of the 4th.  Charly was tired from the painting project, so he opted to stay home.

Charly and I went on a lovely walk Sunday morning.  Due to summer heat, we have started walking as early in the morning as we can.  We have also been taking a second walk later in the evening. 

When we got back home, we had our home church and watched a wonderful message.

After church, I did my scripture reading and Come Follow Me study.

I got the slow cooker out...

...and started a pot roast for dinner...

...using this recipe that cooks the roast in Coca Cola and chili sauce.

I found the recipe in this cookbook, that I recently got at a thrift store. 

We had the post roast for dinner and it was delicious!  The recipe is a keeper.

I also did some indexing of family records from the 1920s and 1930s.

I finished these masks, which I made for my daughter and her husband.  They will go in the mail tomorrow.  I made two masks for each person in the family since I think we will be wearing them for several months to come.  Also, masks will be required for my grandkids when they go back to school in August. 

That was our weekend.  It was low key, but an overall good weekend.  I hope your July 4th weekend was good too!  Enjoy the week ahead!