August 1, 2010

Bueno Dias and Happy August.  To celebrate Mother Nature finally broke the heat wave hitting CT.  We have had a picture perfect weekend as the humidity and temperatures have both dropped dramatically.  It was also an interesting week for news and events.

Jo started it off by hitting the road for Delaware and Argentina.  As I'm sure most people can picture what Delaware looks like I thought we would include photos of Buenos Aires where Jo spent Thursday through to Saturday.  She had a lovely time, at both work and play, and even found an opportunity to use her favorite Spanish phrase - it involves ordering more butter (ask her for details).  By contrast, I had a more mundane week as I stayed in town enjoying the usual mix of working out and working. 

For the weekend, while Jo toured Buenos Aires, I hit the road for a long run to take advantage of  the cool temperatures followed by finishing up the last of the windows (the ones on the deck for those keeping track of the progress).  In the evening, I headed to Mohegan Sun to see Jeff Dunham perform his ventriloquist act - very funny and very politically incorrect.  Jo and I had planned this with our friends Laura and Mike a while ago, prior to Jo having her trip down south planned.  So I had fun with Laura and Mike to the point of tears since I was laughing so hard.  Amazing number of people at the casino so the economic crisis (or whatever we are calling it today) hasn't hit everyone.  No major plans for today as Jo just got back into town this morning.  Will probably pick some beans from the garden to enjoy for the week's meals and mix in a few household chores to get us ready for another week.  Dinner tonight is barbecued ribs in the crock pot - yum.

The other news that made the week interesting is we heard from our team in Madison that our addition passed another approval hurdle although not completely unscathed.  This time it was the Landmark Commission, whose role it is to preserve the historic character of homes in our neighborhood, who agreed with the addition we wanted to add (Yipee), but didn't like that we wanted to change the roof on the main house.  The current roof is flat and we wanted to add a peak to reduce the chance for water damage.  So it is back to the drawing board to figure out some options there.  Still another 2 or 3 approvals to go - so stay tuned.