We are happily participating in the Great Outdoor Challenge. When I think of getting out doors, I think Stuga, which means "little red cabin" in Swedish, well it sort of does.

After a terrible winter of snow, ice, and trees falling on my little house, I finally could make it up the mountain to spend sometime in the great outdoors.

Oh how I love to sit by the lake with my cup of tea and just ponder the world.

While I was sitting there pondering…….a celebration was being prepared for a dear friend.

Complete with burnt dogs, chips, and cake. Yum!

Can you guess who our birthday girl is? It isn't me and it isn't the funny one doing the mustard commercial.

  Happy Birthday Sweet Ruth! May you have 50 more! I know….you don't want to live to be a hundred but we can sure have fun trying. 0: