Yep. We are feeling like people of England after five straight days of rain and over 3 inches of precipitation. It is supposed to rain the next week into Friday and we should get another 2 inches of rain. Needless to say, my golf tournament was rained out this weekend. We had winds upwards of 50 MPH last night and trees were down and power out all over Sacramento. Roseville seemed to escape most of the brunt of the winds, but I still spent over an hour today cleaning up downed branches, leaves and mess from the wind and rain. I also made another application of crabgrass preventer and fertilizer, following up on the aeration that was performed on Friday by a yard service. The ground is saturated in the area and the winds were knocking huge trees over. We watched last night's news as they extracted a woman from a car in a parking lot downtown where a fifty foot tree fell on it trapping her inside and damaging seven other cars. It was a mess, but the winds have moved on leaving my pool a mess and everything wet and soggy.
The aeration service hit one of my solar yard lights in the front of the house Friday and trashed it. The company is supposed to send someone out to replace the light this week. I'll hold off on paying them until that happens.
The pictures above are from Michael and Jennifer's trip to Fremont Street on St Patty's Day as Samantha ran about the mall area and enjoyed herself. I particularly like the first picture of Sam grabbing her Mom's leg and Jennifer taking the picture down at her as she hangs on and smiles. Very Cute. We also have a couple of pictures from our dinner out last night at Sienna in El Dorado Hills. We had a great meal with two of my agents who live in Serrano. We had drinks beforehand and they brought a nice bottle of champagne to celebrate with. The restaurant had an employee trained in "saber opening" of champagne bottles. She took our bottle outside the door by our table and used her saber to cut off the top of the bottle cork and all. Her knife is extremely sharp and she slides it along the bottle and turns it at the end of the cork and makes a clean cut through the glass. The explosion of the cork blows out all of the glass fragments along with the cork and you end up with a bottle cut clean across to enjoy your champagne. Linda, the female half of my agency team (husband and wife) took the severed end of the bottle with the cork intact home as a souvenir. We also had a very nice red wine blend called Siena, that was very nice. I've been enjoying the blends recently and particularly like "Trilogy" and "Menage Au Trois" blends. We got to the restaurant at 6:45 and left at almost 10:30 PM. It was quite a night for us and Burns and Wilcox picked up the $300 tab.
It will be a busy week at work this week. I just finished my reviews of all of the employees and have to go over the compensation review with Harvey on Monday. We also have our two largest carrier partners in this week in Colony and Scottsdale. Colony will be here for dinner tomorrow night and Scottsdale comes in on Wednesday for lunch. I also have carriers in Tuesday and Thursday and am scheduled for some sports marketing with two agents and Matt in the office on Friday if this infernal rain ever moves back up to Washington and Vancouver where it belongs.
We have a slight break in the rain and Darla and I will take a walk up to the shops and return a movie and pick up some condensed milk. Linda gave us a secret on how to make homemade caramel, heating the sweetened condensed milk for an hour on a rolling boil. We are anxious to try it and have some ice cream with caramel sauce for dessert tonight. I will be making barbecued chicken. As the light has changed with Daylight Savings Time, we have incorporated the barbecue back into our cooking plans. Barbecued chicken sounds like a treat tonight.
Darla and I got a smoking deal from Southwest Airlines on a trip to Vegas. We fly out Wednesday April 20th and return on Saturday April 23rd. For $524.77 before taxes, the deal includes round trip tickets for both of us to Vegas, 3 nights at the Luxor Casino and two tickets to the Circus Soleil ELVIS show for Thursday night. The tickets that we received at center row of the arena sell for $139 a seat. Vegas is hurting and we are happy to take advantage of the deals that are out there. The Elvis show is the newest Circus Soleil show and it is at the new Aria casino, the casino that Jennifer worked on for two years. It has been awhile since Darla and I treated ourselves to a show in Vegas and we both love Elvis, so this will be a treat. We will also spend Mike and Jennifer's Wednesday and Thursday off with them and then take Samantha on Friday while they work. We look forward to the trip.
I took the gang out for lunch on St Patty's Day on Thursday at work to celebrate our budget busting in February. We went to the Elephant Bar and had a great time. One of the ladies in my office dresses up for all of the holidays and she had a green wig and green eye shadow. Quite a sight.
Well, not much news here. The boys are both on Spring break and then David starts working as an intern at an architecture firm in San Francisco a week from Monday. He is renting a room in the city and will be home most weekends. Daniel is with Becky in San Jose helping her buy a new car as hers is on its last legs. He will be home mid week. I hope you are all well and healthy and happy. Ciao.
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