Hey There!
Today is Daughter's birthday. After a month of working through some surgery, I hope she is feeling better to enjoy her favorite birthday pasttime - going to all the places that offer some sort of free food item on your birthday. Regrettably, since we now live in a surveillance capitalist system, most of these "free" offers require the app, so you have to give up your personal information to get the "free" stuff. TANSTAAFL.
Son2 is still overseas at a fancy resort. His pictures are phenomenal. The other half truly lives a much different life than we do.
Son1 and his family are going to be in a local show, and DW and I will be traveling to see it. I'm pretty sure the show will be mediocre, but I've been working with some pretty mediocre stuff myself, so I can't complain. A good opportunity for a fast visit.
Nothing much more in the cards today. I may take this morning off from walking because I walked three miles yesterday, which wore me out. I need a recovery day. It might be a good day to get one project done in the yard. I can already hear mowers and other power lawn equipment buzzing in the neighborhood. Weekends are actually the noisiest part of the week for us. We try to hibernate on weekends if we can.
I'm sitting in my screen porch this morning, enjoying a nice morning, relatively cool, with some sun and clouds. My back yard neighbors, who are a nuisance but in fact are only living their disorganized lives, are chatting away. They rent the house, and they've turned the backyard into a complete white trash paradise, complete with trampolines, wading pool, jungle gym, a cloth awning off the side of the garage, grilling area, and adult seating under the awning. Not to mention the required dog that barks at nothing. But I have to be honest - their life style only occasionally gets overwhelming. A good portion of the time they're never there, so I can live with it. Until they start yelling at the kids. They're terrible parents.
'Til We Meet Again!