Inside . . .

And out . . . 

But it was too beautiful this weekend to eat inside!  Lev and I had a lovely picnic dinner outside on Friday night (cold corn soup with crab, panzanella salad with grilled chicken).  I finally figured out how to turn on all the lights around the pool and under the pergola, and with the soft yellow light bulbs I installed, it’s quite romantic!  (Oddly, the switches are not all in one place. But I did solve the mystery behind most (not all) of the many light switches in the bedroom!)

I also extended an invitation to the adjacent neighbors to come by and say hello if they saw me around (a hand-written and hand-delivered note on thick card stock — feeling very Downton Abbey after watching the last few episodes of Season 3 last week).  So far no one has taken me up on the offer. Oh well, my good fences will make good neighbors.