2 posts tagged “birthday”

...of being in my extremely late 40s. Tomorrow the odometer flips over to 5-0.

The Fruit Ranch

Today, my mom would have been 76. Each year Drake and I celebrate this day by having her birthday dinner. My mom always wanted the same thing every year: hamburgers on the grill, fresh tomatoes from the garden, and corn on the cob (which we bought at Anton's Fruit Ranch). Our tomatoes are still tiny and green, and it's 2,094 miles to get corn at the Fruit Ranch, so we'll get those items at our market locally.

Funny thing about the Fruit Ranch. I loved going there as a kid. It's a bit more upscale now, but back then it was more ranch-y feeling.  When I was in high school, the Antons moved right next door. I felt like we had real celebrities as our neighbors!