College Room Mate Weekend

Another cool temperature week has gone by.   We are barely making it into the low 70's lately and it is looking likely we might have to actually turn the heat on before October is even here.  I usually don't like to start the heat until Thanksgiving (just to be clear, I've never been able to convince Joann to wait that long, it is just what I would like to do).  Our garden continues to pump out cucumbers and we harvested our first acorn squash this week.  We are in the midst of enjoying carrots from the garden along with summer squash.  Our freezer is full with green beans and we have sun-dried multiple batches of tomatoes.  So after a rocky start this spring, we are ending pretty happy with our garden's output.

We had a busy weekend starting Friday night when enjoyed dinner at Greg and Rhonda's place.  Dinner was a pepper flavored roast with whipped sweet potatoes.  I overate a bit since I haven't had a roast in a long time.  On Saturday after our morning exercising we headed down to the Chicago area to see our college room mates.  The main driver was Jo's college room mates deciding to hold a reunion in the Hinsdale area (she lived with 9 girls at one point, you can't imagine the mess - I can since I got to see it first hand).  Since John and Linda live right next door in Elmhurst I came along and we spent some time with them (John was my college room mate).  As you can imagine there was a lot of discussion of our long ago college years over the last few days.

Sunday we headed home to catch the tail end of the disappointing Packers game (fortunately the Badgers won, and the Illini were idle so not a complete blow out for football this week) and to prepare ourselves for another work week.

The squirrel was just catching some sun while we were out walking in Elmhurst.  It couldn't even be bothered to move when we came over to check out whether it was alive (it was, it blinked).