Another busyMonday gives rise to a Sunday post. I'm actually sitting in the living room posting this on the wireless internet using Darla's work lap top. I will be playing in one of my insurances agents' Turkey Week at Turkey Creek golf tournaments tomorrow. It will include some contractors, some insurance agency people and some insurance company personnel. In all, we have 23 players competing for a skin pot of $500. There will be side bets aplenty and so far the weather appears to be cooperating.
We spent Saturday afternoon and evening at Darla's parents house for our family Thanksgiving. The boys are with their Dad this year and Jennifer is running in a Thanksgiving Day run with her Mother. I think Diane is running the 10K race and Jen will run the 5K. We had a ball on Saturday. John brought up his gas propelled model car and we gave it a good run on the streets of Paradise. It will run up to 45 MPH and John had it really smoking. Jennifer ran it off the road and got it stuck under one of the neighbors' Porsches that was parked in the driveway. John had it going full bore and ran it full speed into a basketball pole and broke off one of the plastic headlights. The car is a model truck with a chassis that has shock absorbers and oversized rubber tires that can run over dirt, rocks and on the street. We ate turkey and ham and played Cranium and the Mexican Train game (dominoes) after dinner. We also were able to get a new family photo which you see above. You can click on any of the pictures above to see a full screen shot of the photo. Jennifer and John had thought about staying in Sacramento Saturday night, but they opted to make the drive home and have a full day at home before going back to work on Monday. I last talked to Jennifer about 11:30 on Saturday night and she and John were playing "twenty questions" somewhere outside of Dixon, California on the drive back to Walnut Creek.
We spent Saturday afternoon and evening at Darla's parents house for our family Thanksgiving. The boys are with their Dad this year and Jennifer is running in a Thanksgiving Day run with her Mother. I think Diane is running the 10K race and Jen will run the 5K. We had a ball on Saturday. John brought up his gas propelled model car and we gave it a good run on the streets of Paradise. It will run up to 45 MPH and John had it really smoking. Jennifer ran it off the road and got it stuck under one of the neighbors' Porsches that was parked in the driveway. John had it going full bore and ran it full speed into a basketball pole and broke off one of the plastic headlights. The car is a model truck with a chassis that has shock absorbers and oversized rubber tires that can run over dirt, rocks and on the street. We ate turkey and ham and played Cranium and the Mexican Train game (dominoes) after dinner. We also were able to get a new family photo which you see above. You can click on any of the pictures above to see a full screen shot of the photo. Jennifer and John had thought about staying in Sacramento Saturday night, but they opted to make the drive home and have a full day at home before going back to work on Monday. I last talked to Jennifer about 11:30 on Saturday night and she and John were playing "twenty questions" somewhere outside of Dixon, California on the drive back to Walnut Creek.
I did play golf on Saturday, but I was wedged into the first foursome (to make a fivesome) so that I could make it to Paradise in time for dinner. As it turned out, the turkey was ready early and they had to start without me. I turned up in time for seconds and to hear the closing prayer by Grandpa Andy as is tradition. I think Jennifer and John enjoyed being up with family and certainly enjoyed the food. Jennifer brought bread and sodas and was a big part of the preparations. I shot an 89 in foggy, wet conditions and I'm just hoping that I saved my best golf for tomorrow.
Work continues to blow along at a good pace. One of my underwriting assistants quit to take a managerial position with a competitor and Gail, my most Senior Underwriter, has left on a medical leave, her second in two years. Hopefully, this surgery fixed her recurring problems and we can put it behind us. She was in the hospital until Friday and is now home on bed rest. I'm not sure when I'll get her back.
The pool continues construction at a torrid pace as the electrical, pre-plumbing and the rebar are just about done. They still need to form the steps and we are set for an inspection tomorrow. They hope to gunite by Wednesday as they are adding gunite near the steps and the deep end swimout for a flagstone walkway between the stamped concrete and the pool. Our designer, Kevin, wants to be here on the day of the gunite to direct the pouring of those two walkways. Hopefully the inspection goes well as Kevin leaves for a week in Cancun on Thanksgiving. The backyard is beginning to take shape and I look forward to the new redwood fence which will dress up the yard even more.
Darla is off work this week and will do some projects around the house, cleaning out the closet in the spare bedroom and using that to store her Silpada inventory and show cases. She continues to do well and has her eye on a trip to Maui next year (for two) paid for by Silpada. She has a fine start on that goal and (if I have to) I will go along with her on the trip and sit by the pool and perhaps even play a round of golf.
Well, this is even shorter than normal, but I have steaks on the grill and a hungry family waiting in the other room. Give thanks to the Lord for he is Good. I give thanks for all of the things and people that HE has blessed me with. Happy thanksgiving and Go Cowboys. Ciao.
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