As the misses pointed out yesterday, we’re now half way through the year, right Pa Don? (we’ll check with him for the exact time to the second as he always wins that contest when flying to Hawaii where you need to calculate the exact time when your half way there) Yesterday was another, yes another, day at a swim meet. This time it was a league wide 8 team relay meet from about 1 until 10pm. Swimming is quite the commitment but both boys seem to really like it, it’s good for their muscles and lungs, and they’re getting better and better everyday. Guess what today is, you won’t believe it but today is the day the whole swim team goes to Water World to play. I was going to nix the whole event because it costs about $30 a kid to go but the whole team is going and the oldest has even offered to pay with his own money. It looks like Mom and the boys will be going after all. First though they need to finish their daily workbooks and do their chores, then we’ll see. The oldest just said “dad, we don’t have to go, it’s up to you”. How sweet is that, he really really wants to go but does understand how expensive it is. He’s such a good kid.
With today being the last day of the month, I’m stuck at the phones and computer chasing the last few hundred thousand dollars of revenue I need for the month. Everything seems to be falling in line and I had $300,000 to $400,000 come in yesterday. As I said earlier in the week, there’s a bunch of markets so odds are I’ll lose one or two but this month it looks like I’ll get every state I projected, to order their containers of wine. Keep your fingers crossed as there’s a whole day left and still 5 states to go.
Close friends from Vail called last night begging us to come up saying all our friends are there for the 4th and everyone misses us. We’re not sure what we’re going to do but getting out of the city and the heat sure sounds nice. The Greeley Stampede rodeo is still an option as well. I need to get Grandma a pie crust today as we took her some rhubarb and she said she’d make a pie. She was also going to make her famous macaroni, tuna and green pea salad which is enough to keep me in town. Speaking of Grandma, I heard her high school reunion is coming up and I’m trying to get her to go! I told her that all of us would hop in the car and take a road trip to Wisconsin, this’ll make her want to go for sure, 18 hours in a car with us four! Maybe I should check into a first class airline ticket or see about chartering a private jet, I might have more luck. Oh well, I don’t think she’ll go but if she could blink her eyes or wiggle her nose (like Bewitched) Â and be there, I think she’d go. They should have some kind of virtual way of participating on the internet.
On another note, Grandma said the other day that there’s some truth to my words the other day about stocking up on some extra food and supplies. Turns out my dad would always buy two of everything just to have a spare, ah ha! Vindication! You see he was a lot smarter than me and if he would do this, I’m on the right track. So at least when you go shopping, just buy 1 extra of everything and you’ll be ahead of the game.
We kind of slept in today with no swim team practice and it’s now almost 8am. The boys are now debating whether or not to go to Water World or go get some fireworks, hopefully they’ll choose fireworks as it’ll be a lot less expensive. I’ll leave it up to them, seems the little one is holding out for Water World but the oldest and Mom are wanting to pass on the crowds and lines.
Time to run and I need to hit the phones to see where I’m at regarding my remaining orders. I still need North Carolina, Oregon, Washington, Illinois and South Carolina, time to get to work. Have a great day and Pa Don will hopefully tell us the exact moment of time when we are all half way through 2011.
God Bless,