It’s a long weekend. Critter #1 is home for a couple of days. With any luck, I’ll get at least one family meal out of the deal. Of course, that means a dreaded trip to the grocery store is in order.
The estate is still in various stages of disrepair. The hot tub needs a service call and the pool isn’t open yet, but the deck’s newly stained and the house has been painted this week. I do have a couple of scary “painter in your window” kinds of stories, but they’re probably best left without details.
The parade is on for Monday in Elm Grove at 10:30 a.m. I get to be there rain or shine. Frankly, the weather forecast is looking a little iffy, so we’ll just have to wait and see on that one.
Memorial Day is a great tradition, but different for me here in Wisconsin. Growing up it almost always meant a weekend at the lake or Little Sahara. (A little Oklahoma perspective – the first weekend after Easter is always Rattlesnake weekend there. You don’t know fun until you’re camped out with dozens of boxed snakes nearby.) Now it’s usually a parade that one of the kids is in and a little catching up on the never ending list of home repairs.
This weekend I am going to try to get some more of the letters about Uncle Jack transcribed, though. It seems fitting. I’ll pop them up as I get to them.
Have a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Dan Harland // May 23, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Painter in your window stories? Yikes.
2 Cindy Kilkenny // May 23, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Yep, yikes!
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