TGIF 8-17-18

Good Morning!


TGIF!!!  Yesterday's events at work were fun - the kids all had a great time.  So much for them to do!!  Spin art for Tee shirts, photo booths, games, movies and, of course, Food!  The office ended up closing at 3, but I bolted around 2:30.  It was a very noisy day and I had a major headache.


Col was over for dinner again last night and grilled delicious burgers.  He also made a wonderful cole slaw adding some of the carnival peppers from the garden.  I was so full from those that I couldn't eat the corn I had picked up on the way home and I still have NOT had a piece of the pie!  Colin had some and took most of it home to share with Mailing.  There is one piece left which I am hoping to split with Fletch tonight.


Fletch is growing sweet potatoes again this year.  In the past, they have tended to be very small - almost like carrots.  But this year?

YAY!!  A nice sized sweet potato (which we may split tonight). 


Work will be busy today.  I have a conference call in 20 minutes and another one at 10.  As usual, I'm hoping to get out of here by Noon or 1 at the latest.  I have a number of things I'd like to get done this afternoon (chore-wise) as tomorrow is a play day with Dee!!


Last, in honor of Friday Felines, here is a shot that Colin capture of Tyg during his yoga practice:





So relaxed!  If only my spine would bend like that - lol.


Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!!

Thursday Stuff

Well there's an imaginative title for you!


Colin was over for dinner last night and brought some produce from his garden plot at work - romaine lettuce and radishes.

The lettuce was like micro-greens and so good.  he made a simple salad of the two dressed in olive oil, freshly ground salt & pepper.  It was perfect to go with the pasta we had (sauce with previously grilled hot and sweet sausage, garden onions and peppers).  Col also brought a nice bottle of chianti to go with the meal.  After that, no one felt like peach pie!  Fletch did have a piece later in the evening as a snack and pronounced it great!


Tonight's menu is burgers grilled, corn and cole slaw.  Hopefully there will be room for a piece of pie after that.  I'm also hoping for a game or two of Cribbage.


Meanwhile, today is our "End of Summer Bash" at work.  Folks are bringing in their children...a Disney movie in the a.m. along with face painting and balloons...tee shirt dyeing.  A caterer is setting up a BBQ station on the deck and the lobby of the building is being taken over with games for the kids:  mini golf, mini basketball, tic-tac toss and who knows what all.  It will be a noisy day!  But, should be fun for the kids.


Nice to be on the down-side of the work week.  Hope everyone is having a good one!

Unraveled Wednesday 08-15-18

Good Morning All!


Wow did we have a ton of rain on Monday...and a bit more on Tuesday.  Today is supposed to get very hot again, but it was pleasant on my patio this morning - 68 degrees and just lovely.


Once again the week is flying by.  I haven't managed to do much knitting at all.  Monday night we were waiting for a plumber to show up (clogged drains over the weekend).  The good news:  the drains cleared themselves and there was no charge by the plumber because he was unable to arrive in the window of time given us (2-6 p.m....and he showed up after 8 p.m.!).  It's all good.

And last night instead of knitting, I baked a peach pie.  My pies are not the prettiest by any stretch of the imagination, but they usually taste pretty good - lol.  Can't wait to have a piece of this tonight.

The peaches I bought over the weekend are delicious!  I am going to stop by the store to get more and have plans to make some peach-ginger jam.


I finished The Radium Girls on Monday night.  Glad I read it, but glad to have it finished.  It's an unpleasant story, but one I had not heard about.  I'm reading a light mystery now, but will be starting The Weight of Ink which just (finally) came through on Overdrive.


Look who showed up the other morning!

Busy destroying some of our daylilies (not good) and a bunch of weeds (good).