You can see by the top two pictures that we are ready for Summer, but the weather has not so far cooperated. We have had an unusually mild Spring with only one day over 90 degrees and no 100's as of yet. The pool has not heated up to a usable temperature, although both Darla and I have been on the pool in the pool lounges reading so far this year. The water is still in the sixties and COLD. We hope to see some hot weather around the corner, but after a weekend in the low seventies, we are supposed to see rain and cooler temperatures Tuesday thru Thursday. I have to be in San Francisco for a meeting on Thursday and hope the wet weather holds off. The only saving grace is that I park in the office building that we are visiting and only brave the elements at lunch time. Eventually, the warmer weather will be here and we will look back on these cooler days with some lament.
I have a tri tip on the grill right now and I have decided with my $99 grill that I'm going this week and buying one of the nice big stainless steel grills at Home Depot. The grills at Peace canyon were so nice in Vegas and this POS in my backyard has got to go. We barbecue a lot and have family coming over on Memorial Day, so I'm inspired.
It was a nice quiet weekend this past weekend which makes up for the fun packed weekend we had last weekend and the very busy weekend upcoming. I played poker on Friday night (won about $25) and golfed Saturday 41+44=85, not bad coming off two weeks of inactivity. Darla had a Silpada gig up in Paradise and I went over after golf and picked up some plants to put in the front planter by the pool. Darla prefers flowers, but plants tend to hold up better to the chlorine in the pool and aren't as fragile when beach balls and things land on them. I took a couple of pictures of the plants. I moved the annuals that we had planted there and put them in two large planter bowls and placed those on either side of the pool.
Back from a delicious dinner of barbecued tri tip and fried rice. Darla has the bug that was with me last week and didn't eat dinner. I cut the meat on the small cutting board and while I ate the juices from the cut meat ran out onto the counter and down the front of the microwave to the floor. Always so nice after a big meal to have to clean and scrub the counters, floor and microwave. There really is no correlation, but I'm blaming the cheap barbecue.
I added more pictures of Miss Samantha. You can see the fifth picture down where she is fighting her tiredness to stay awake and watch Lilo and Stitch. The blue blanket is Darla's and one night when Jennifer was giving Samantha a cookie, Samantha said, "Look, Mommy, I'm Cookie Monster!" She is so smart. She also loved the animals at Bonnie Springs and you can see her big grin as she looks at the little goat. We had so much fun and are already talking about our next trip to Vegas where hopefully we can introduce Samantha to her Great Grandma and Grandpa Lyon.
Speaking of Dad and Shirley, they are back from their world cruise through Europe and Russia. Their itinerary showed them flying home last night from London after their marathon trip. I remember talking to Dad last year about how they were going to slow down and not take so many trips away. I guess they are only going to take two month long vacations this year.
I also talked to Randy this week and he is planning a trip either to Vancouver or Lake Tahoe for
his 50th birthday in August. Shirley didn't want to be in Vegas in August because it is so HOT. I'm up for either venue. Tahoe would be nice because then maybe Jen could join us and celebrate her 30th birthday as well.
I talked to our house painter tonight and he is finishing up a job in Auburn and will start on our house on Wednesday. Darla and I have picked a milk chocolate brown with white trim for the house. It should go with the roof that has alot of charcoal and browns in it.
I said next weekend will be busy. We have dinner Thursday night with Joni, Darla maid of honor in our wedding. She is getting married and we will meet her fiance for the first time. Saturday is golf and then Darla and I will work the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee in Old Sacramento Saturday night. We will work as liquor runners, bringing booze on a golf cart to the different bars in the outside venues in Old town. Pete's Mom has been in charge of the liquor service for years and this will be the second time I've worked the gig and the first for Darla. Sunday is the Memorial Day golf tournament for our club and Darla and I will again work the jazz festival on Sunday night. Monday, we have family over for a barbecue and get together. In the middle of all of this, Darla has another Silpada party. Whew!
Well, this is short, but it is already 8:30 and I want to join Darla on the couch. We want to call Dad and Shirley and that will happen either tonight or tomorrow. I hope you are all well, it was nice to be back in church this morning. be good. Ciao.
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