Quiet Weekend

I had a very quiet week since Jo was on the road traveling almost the entire week.  I simply puttered around the house putting the finishing touches on a couple of small projects, tended to the weeds and grass outside, and did a little bit of harvesting in the garden.  We now have tiny little brussel sprouts (emphasis on tiny and little!) growing which is a nice surprise since we didn't think we were going to get anything but plants this year.  We continue to harvest large amounts of cucumbers as our plants seem determined to produce 10 of them a week.  Jo is keeping her work colleagues well supplied.  The only big news for the week, is that the painters finally got around to painting the second floor windows on the north and south side of the house.  I decided this year to stop climbing really tall ladders and pay professionals to climb up and paint my upper floor windows.  That now completes all the windows on the house except for a few basement windows - which will be subject to a post next year.

As I said above, Jo was on the road this past week.  She spent most of the week in the LA area visiting sales offices in the area and attending some events for the Northwestern Mutual foundation which reports into her.  One of these events had some celebrities and she was able to meet Jimmy Kimmel and saw Bob Saget.  Didn't see any other major celebrities, or if she did - she didn't recognize them (which brings up the question, if you don't recognize a celebrity is he/she really a celebrity?  Sort of the tree in a forest making sound kind of question).  Anyway, she had a nice time on our western coast enjoying the warmer weather but came home very late on Saturday (really Sunday morning) and so Sunday was spent recuperating.  We did get in a really nice long walk around town on Sunday so we didn't spend the whole day vegetating.

All too soon it was time to head back to work, well for Jo anyway.  For those keeping track, Poland has moved into third place for viewers of this blog (after the US and Russia).  I don't know why this is so popular with Eastern Europe, but I'm just glad to have the readers.