Here we go, 3 days off and well deserved for all of us in our brood. The misses has been working very hard at work and at home, and the boys have been doing great at school and adjusting well. They deserve a break and it’s now up to me to find something fun for them to do rather than just sit around all weekend.
The house is clean and it’s finally getting cool outside. It’ll be in the mid 70’s or 80’s today. Wherever it is, it’ll be a lot more enjoyable than the 90 degree plus weather that’s been plaguing us for months. I meant to get both dogs groomed but didn’t get around to it. That’ll have to wait until next week.
The boys played hard after school until around 7:30 when I forced them to come in for a shower and a movie. The activities included baseball, bike riding, scooter riding (a small 2 wheeled scooter called a Razor that all the kids have) and general horse play. Our kids sure are well adjusted when you compare them to the rest of the neighborhood boys and girls. There’s lot’s of drama always going on with someone not happy about something. Thankfully it’s usually not our kids. Before we came home from school, we went to the library for the annual Book Fair. This is a fund raiser where the school sells books (for a lot more than the book store) over the course of a week. You always have to limit their choices or it’d cost you over a hundred dollars. I managed to get out of there for $26 bucks. The kids were going to use their own money (and I probably should have let them) but they both worked so hard all week and aced their spelling tests, so I decided to pick up the tab and let them save their $7 weekly allowance for something else. We’re very proud of both of them and you all should be too!
It’s a little after 5am and of course everyone is still sleeping. I think we’ll make some green chili today because the hatch green chili’s just arrived from New Mexico. For those of you that don’t know, this is an annual event that those of us in the know wait for! Hatch Green chili’s are a special chili pepper that comes around about this time every year. On street corners you see stands pop up everywhere with big wire drums (like a bingo thing) connected to a propane torch that are used to roast the chili’s to order. You can buy these by the bushel (or smaller) and you then freeze them and use them over the course of the year. There’s a mexican guy named Carlos at the misses work who I ran into at another store the other day. It seems he goes around from store to store roasting chili’s for Whole Foods because he’s apparently the resident expert. He recognized me and told me to wait a day and he’d roast me up a special batch that he’d bring to her store the next day. When I picked them up he said this was a mild batch and in a few days he’d have a bunch of “hot”peppers roasted up for me too. Turns out he also made some green chili salsa that’s to die for. So, we’re having green chili tonight!
We were at her store picking up a huge cardboard box that was used to hold watermelons. In fact, the misses had to take the watermelons out of the box to take it home. You see she’s in charge (with two other girls) of the school dance this year. It’s coming up fast and this years theme is pirates. Now if you don’t already know this, the misses lives for putting on theme parties. Give her any theme and then just get out of the way. Hence here at home we have a full size ships mast in the kitchen she made out of some bamboo poles complete with sails (with old curtains from the thrift store) complete with a crows nest, a bunch of pirate flags (she traced and then drew on the skull and bones on old sheets she scrounged up) and the box I think that is going to be a replica of a pirate ship. I think the “ship” is for the photo booth. She’s very creative and really has a lot of fun doing this. She’s always been a big help to the school in general (remember the smart board last year?) and to both boys classes individually. If 1/10th of the parents out there would put in half the effort the misses does, the school would be a much better place, have no funding problems and all the kids would get a better education. That may seem like a big statement  but it’s 100% accurate, she really does a lot and gets little to no credit. Of course she doesn’t do it for the credit but she sure deserves it.
I think I’ll skip politics today (sorry Uncle T) due to the holiday weekend. Hopefully the newspaper is here or else I’ll head to the gym. It’s about 5:30 now and no one will be up for at least an hour and a half. Here’s a fun read below but don’t fret, it has nothing at all to do with politics.
Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.
When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed to find a wife with whom to share his fortune.
One evening, at an investment meeting, he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
Her natural beauty took his breath away.”I may look like just an ordinary guy,” he said to her,
“But in just a few years my father will die and I will inherit $200 million”.
“Impressed, the woman asked for his business card and three days later, she became his stepmother.
Women are so much better at financial planning than men.
How’s that for ya! Pretty funny. Oh well, have a great weekend and take care of yourselves. We should be around home but might head out for a quick fishing trip to the mountains. A couple of more things, gold is up to $1885 an ounce, wow, and we’re looking for a cheap 1970 or earlier 4 wheel drive truck. This will be like a ranch truck. We have a young couple who are friends who are looking for something like this. They live in a little town in Wyoming so their choices are limited. If any of you old people out there (sorry but I have to say that while I still can before I’m one of you) know anyone with a nice old, preferably 4 wheel drive, truck, please let us know. Thanks much, be safe and God Bless.