August 8, 2010

I seem to writing about the weather a lot.  It could be I just don't like heat and humidity and we have had copious quantities of both this summer, or it could be nothing else exciting is happening in my life.  Let's hope its the former.  After last weekend's great weather, we promptly went back to the humidity during the week which made some of the runs we did this week pretty challenging.  Then come Friday night the humidity plummeted again only - according to the weather reports - to climb again through the coming week.  Weird weather, but I'll take the few days of comfortable temperatures.

After Jo's exciting trip to Argentina she was stuck here all week.  No travel, not even to New York.  While I enjoy having her around for an entire week she does miss the traveling.  I've yet to really understand her love of always being on the road.  But the good result is that we got to work out together this week and as mentioned above, enjoy some really sticky runs - nothing like ending your run completely soaking wet.  As we usually discuss our work day during the run and it was nice to not be talking to myself for once and to have a sounding board on my ideas and frustrations. 

To move rapidly to the fun portion of the week, Friday after getting the grass cut, the garden weeded and harvested (another bumper crop of beans, tomatoes, and cucumbers), we headed to Mystic for Mexican food and ice cream.  This was in partial celebration of my yearly milestone event of another birthday - although technically that isn't until the coming week.  We enjoyed ice cream cones for dessert while we wandered through scenic Mystic and got to enjoy watching the drawbridge go up - very interesting from an engineering standpoint. 

Saturday dawned cool so we hit the road for a 11 mile run then after some light weightlifting we joined our friends, Tiffany and Stuart, for a cruise on their boat.  We motored from Stonington over to Noank to enjoy lobster rolls at Abbot's then saw the sites.  First we headed into Mystic (it's a theme this weekend) and then cruised the Long Island sound seeing the big homes on Fisher Island and one of the Sound lighthouses (this one issues a beeping noise, not sure why, since if you are motoring along or in a big barge, there is no possible way to hear the noise).  It was nice for someone to name their commercial fishing boat after Joann although she didn't get invited to the christening nor do we get any of the freshly caught fish.  Then after docking we enjoyed catching up and solving many of the problems of the world on their new deck.

Since Saturday was mostly play, it meant today was filled with our chores.  After our run and yoga, we canned more jars of bread-and-butter pickles (a great way to use up our cucumbers from Friday's harvest), cleaned the large picture window in the foyer, and then went to work on patching a few small cracks in the plaster.  Nothing too hard or earth shattering but good to get them all out of the way although it did use up most of the day. 

That pretty much sums up the week and we are now getting ourselves psyched up for the another week of work.  At least our stock is moving up after the good announcements on the second quarter results.