Lebowski Fest

Our most significant news for the week was our celebration of our 31st anniversary.  Hard to believe how long we have been together and how much we have changed over the years.  In some ways it seems just like yesterday that we were walking down the aisle.  In other ways we have come through and done a lot.  Either way, I wouldn't trade it in for the world.  We decided to celebrate with the traditional 31st gift of fruit pastry.  We also decided to take the night off from exercising and treated each other to dinner at a local restaurant.

On the garden front, we did pick our first crop of peas - a whopping 12 pods. You can see them all there in the picture. With crops like that we are sure to be in peas forever. We are in major discussions about our 2013 garden now, and figure we might need to either plant more of our garden with peas or abandon peas entirely if we can't get more pods/plant.  I also continued my favorite activity of painting the house.  I'm now slowly working my way around all the exterior windows and doors.  As mentioned last week, at least half of the windows are on the second floor that involves climbing some 20 feet in the air.  Not my favorite thing to do especially when coupled with having to scrape off old paint.  So there are likely to be a fair number of whiny postings about the painting in the next months - you were warned.  Jo had a busy work week with lots of meetings and a few challenges to deal with.  Jo also had several evening events that she needed to attend including a retirement party to which I got to tag along - never pass up free food.

We are having a quiet weekend with our only planned activities attending the Lebowski Fest on Friday and making a grocery run to Woodman's.  We both needed a little down time - being completely honest, Jo needed down time as I get most of what I need during the week.  Anyway, Friday night we attended the Lebowski Fest, with Adam and Sarah, which was really just a reason for Milwaukeen's to gather in Cathedral Square downtown to eat and drink while listening to some music and then watching the movie "The Big Lebowski".  The movie has apparently become a cult classic for it's witty use of "Dude" and the main characters religious devotion to drinking White Russian cocktails.  It was fun watching it with people in the crowd (which numbered about 5,000 according to reports - you know Milwaukeen's never pass up a chance to eat and drink in public) shouting out the upcoming lines.  Readily apparent that some people have too much time on their hands that are using it to watch really quirky movies.

Today we just took it easy at home catching on our backlogged newspapers interspersed with appropriate rest with our eyes closed so as to not catch fatal eye strain.  We are about to head out for a walk so we can feel we did at least move some of our muscles today.  Tomorrow after our morning exercise routine, we will head to Woodman's to stock up our pantry supplies and piddle around in the garden as we have some lettuce and a few more peas that need picking.