Back from Vacation

Went on vacation for a week and a half. It was fun, but it's always nice to be home. Don't you hate when you've been gone and the house feels dusty, and there's 300 loads of laundry to do, and the lawn looks awful, because the person you hired to water it didn't do a good job? Well, two out of three was what I came back to. We had the best lawn sitter ever. The grass was green, none of the plants in the pots died, we have red tomatoes, what more could you ask. Sara did a great job. We are so lucky.

We went to Tahoe for vacation. Spent some time at the lake and had a wonderful fourth of July. We met some of our friends up at the lake. Cindy and Walter Algarin and their son Luke, Gretchen and Jason Ivan and their son Tsilynn and daughter Reese. Rabbi ElizaBeth and her husband Tom came up for a while also. The day was cold and windy. Lake Tahoe can really be cold, but by the evening, the wind died down and we got to see fireworks from both sides of the lake. It was so awesome.

We played some tennis, did some shopping, did a few odd jobs around the condo, but really not very much. It was unusally mellow, but quite nice. The smoke got bad the last few days, as the fires in California have polluted the air to a Stage 1 air alert. That translates into, don't go outside.

Am going to call the porch guy today, so hopefully we can get something done along those lines in the next few.

Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere!!

I've been trying to make the front porch look good. I've got to call the cement guy today and have him come out and look at the porch and the front walk way. Hopefully we can get that done. I've had about enough of the cracks and peeling paint. If we stain it, I'm doing it a dark brown. I want it to hide the water stains and all the things that land on it. I just know that anything he can do will make it look better.

Hopefully, I can get the dormer painted in the next two days. That has been driving me crazy as well. We also have to call the surveyor to come survey the back yard. We have got to have a new fence. The back is in really bad shape.

I'm planting the garden this week. It's a little late, but better late than never, especially with the price of food.

We have finally decided to take a small vacation. We are going to go to Lake Tahoe and then over to see Rob's cousin when he comes in.