A Day in the LIfe of Cap'n America...

We woke up this morning to a gray cloudy day

And it happens to be Cap'n  'Merica's day off, and although he said  there will be no rescues to be made today, he put on his suit (just in case) and picked up the bag of stale bread, and bravely headed on.
That's right, today's mission on his day off is "feed the birds"

And off he went, throwing a piece here, and a piece there......

Soon the birds congregated for the homemade stale bread

What a hero!!! Even to the birds!!!!

Now these three are the smart ones, they do not like their bread thrown in the sand. They don't like their chow gritty. They like their provisions thrown in the air and they catch the pieces with their beaks.

And CAP'n likes that!

They do land too for some rest, yah?

Cap'n is growing so tall and lean...hey..what's that?....

Did you know he is a big fan of  Sponge Bob Square Pants?
(yep, he wears his Sponge Bob Square Pants crocs on his day off)

and the action continues....

A cute lady jogs by but Cap'n notices not...

His mission must come first....

Cap'n is slowing down a bit.....something is  the matter, Cap?

Oooops, nothing serious, just a little wedgie there...

and he belts out a loud guffaw....it was just a wedgie...

The birds are getting too close, one's about to land on  his head...

oh, and he's got only one bag of stale bread..

Bag's empty now...

Birds fed! Bag's empty...

Mission, accomplished!

The lifeguard requests a picture with Cap'n America...and Cap'n obliges.

Hurray for Cap'n America!

Movie Night at the Beach

We've been really busy doing our own fun this summer that we missed a lot of the free concerts and movies at the beach. We did catch one movie at the beach last night and THIS cannot be missed since our neighbor Richie told Zachary about it (The Avengers) and Zachary noted it down on a sticky and  posted it on the refrigerator.

So off we go to see Avengers  just before sunset

 Daylight still at 8 p.m.



So while we waited for the screen to be set up, we sat quietly in  our beach chairs and contemplated the setting of the sun

What a treat, huh? God's handiwork blesses my soul.

People are waiting

and enjoyed the sunset as we did

Meantime, the sun put on a beautiful show and...

we  feasted our eyes on this beauty...

Up..up..up the screen went

My two love-doves waited patiently

meantime, someone went around offering free bags of chips for the moviegoers...
(love Long Beach!)

of course I brought my own exotic snacks!
Thai Lime and chili cashews, chile spiced mango for Steve and me and Goldfish and Nissin wafers for Zach (wafers compliment of Tita Ruth all the way from the Philippines)

Eating Nanay's kind of wafer
Glad I brought some malongs. It was windy and we wrapped ourselves with them.

Movie nights at the beach sure is fun!
 

Tail-End of Summer

We have about one more week of our summer vacation so we try to get the most of our free time together.

Zach brings his own chair (a backpacker chair I snagged from a flea market at the Poconos ...for a dollar) Do you see where  Steve is in this picture. (He is sitting under the colored umbrella waiting for us)

Zach goes straight to the lifeguard mound and make friends with the lifeguard.
He entices them with his Pokémon Cards (he found out that the lifeguards are crazy about Pokémon) then after  many games, he yaps their ears off. (This lifeguard here if you notice never took his eyes off the water...diligently  doing his job)

The water was too cold, people just stood and chatted at the  shore.

Later in the day, the  beach filled up.

And we headed for home to eat a late lunch.
Right away, Flo's Bistro was in business...
(it pays to have home-made pizza dough on hand all the time)

Zach ordered his usual homemade pizza---pepperoni pizza with basil from the garden of course.

and my preference....artichoke, capers and pepper and green olives...

I threw in a pan of wild-caught salmon baked to perfection with some cherry tomatoes, pepper and lemon

Instant late-lunch...

Not bad, huh?

Waiting to be served...

like I always say...I am the baker he is either the slicer or the cutter :-)

finished the late lunch off with  blueberry banana slices