Happy Memorial Day especially to David our nephew-in-law (I think that is the term for someone who marries one of your nieces) who is serving our country in Afghanistan. It has been a few weeks as I didn't get to the blog last weekend and I wasn't home on Monday to catch up - more on that later. I won't try to catch up on everything but you should know that starting here and for the next few months you will be inundated with vegetable garden photos - consider yourself warned, you can always just wait until late September if you want to spare yourself.
Last weekend we spent the days working around the house doing the usual mix of summer repair chores - sanding and getting the first coat of paint on the bulkhead doors, mowing the grass, and edging the beds. But the highlight was getting all of our crops planted in the garden. Everything is now in the ground and once again it is up to the weather gods and fertilizer gods to determine what will rise. We are hopeful of having a good strawberry crop as many of the plants have strawberries set, just need some warm sun to turn them red. We have enjoyed our first few strawberries and combined them with rhubarb from the garden for our first dish made from the garden this year, strawberry/rhubarb cobbler. Warmed up and served with ice cream, it was excellent.
On the social front, last weekend we had Deb and Rich, and Mary and Dave over for an evening of dinner and conversation. We only manage to get everyone together once every six months due to family and business schedules so we spent the evening catching up along with solving all the world's and Pfizer's ills. This week, Jo's sisters and nephew Drew are visiting for the long weekend. They have taken a world-wind tour of the sites in CT with tours of Mark Twain's house in Hartford, the New Haven green, and a ferry cruise of the Thimble islands. We also went up to Lexington and Concord - that's in MA (in case any of you Americans have forgotten what state these key cities are in) where we met up with Pat (sister-in-law) and her boys who were out visiting her son who lives in New Hampshire now. It was a great time for the cousins to all catch up and the sisters and sister-in-laws to all talk since they don't get that many opportunities to all be together anymore. Me, I enjoyed the history - what did you expect for an introvert. They also spent a day lounging around at home to catch their breath as well as to not spend another couple of hours in the car.
Work wise, the usual mix of New York trips for Jo along with her usual hectic schedule since her team is launching a big project in the next couple of weeks. I was in Newport, RI for a couple of days for a leadership team meeting. It was certainly fun running by all the massive home in Newport and to enjoy the similarly massive boats in the marinas there. Recession aside, there remain some people with copious quantities of money.
Have a great week - at least it is a short working week!
Last weekend we spent the days working around the house doing the usual mix of summer repair chores - sanding and getting the first coat of paint on the bulkhead doors, mowing the grass, and edging the beds. But the highlight was getting all of our crops planted in the garden. Everything is now in the ground and once again it is up to the weather gods and fertilizer gods to determine what will rise. We are hopeful of having a good strawberry crop as many of the plants have strawberries set, just need some warm sun to turn them red. We have enjoyed our first few strawberries and combined them with rhubarb from the garden for our first dish made from the garden this year, strawberry/rhubarb cobbler. Warmed up and served with ice cream, it was excellent.
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