The "Studio" is progressing very rapidly toward completion; if I knew how to upload pictures to this blog you could see for yourself. Suffice it to say that by the start of Labor Day Weekend (which is creeping up on us, buddies) the full flooring and wallboards should be installed, and painting begun. John goes out there every day and remeasures and draws diagrams (who knew?) -- and yesterday he took a chair out (after the workers had departed) and tried various locations to the purpose of deciding where his easy chair might best be placed for the best views out the two windows. It must be like childhood revisited: building a treehouse!
So everyone's going off somewhere for the holiday weekend aforementioned. The builders are taking a family trip; Julie and her gang are going over to the East Bay for Danny D's little league baseball season finale. And we are going south. We will drive down to Santa Barbara on Thursday next, to stay with Poo. On Friday we head on further south to Pasadena, where a Soule R/U is planned for that evening (Stella, Eric and Louise are visiting Marie; James gets back to the USA from Singapore or wherever he's been this summer, stopping in LA before returning to grad school: and a Stella-visit always engenders a family gathering. Leeessaaah and her entourage will come to Pasadena too. Bob is making red beans and rice) ..... We'll return to S.B. for the holiday weekend, with a chance to visit with old friends and attend Trinity's Sunday services. On the Tuesday everyone goes back to work or school, we will fit in some dental appointments and other business in S.B.; and then we're heading back north, stopping in Carmel Valley for a bit of quiet R & R before returning to our mountains on Friday, September 5. We are hoping the shed will be completely ready by then, as the contractors will finish it up on their return from the long weekend holiday.
This has been a quiet, domestic sort of week (I baked a fabulous stuffed manicotti casserole for dinner plus three batches of cookies, yesterday (the latter a volunteer project for the church bake sale this weekend -- with leftovers for our own cookie jar, of course). I had a girls' outing with Julie and Stef on Wednesday -- we went to a matinee of "The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants II" and had lunch at Malone's Grill (yummy).
Today is John's and my "Grand Day Out" -- we try to do this once a week -- this time we're off to explore the Loch Lomond Rec Area with its reservoir and the Trout Farm Inn on the river -- a part of this valley we've not seen yet.
Well, that blast ought to hold youse, for a while .... and if my I-Net holds up I'll be back latah, dahlings.
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