Good afternoon friends,

So, another week has come and gone. It was amazingly ordinary. Work remains busy as usual. The girls survived yet another barbecue festival and returned safe, if a little hung over. The holiday weekend was one of unhurried relaxation. we went to a morning matinee of the new Pirates of the Carribean Saturday, then an early dinner at Ruby Tuesday. Sunday, the ladies took me out to lunch to celebrate my birthday. Monday we did some yard work. We planted a good sized holly bush and some lilies. After cleaning up, I cooked some steaks on the grill and we enjoyed them with a nice bottle of Bourdeaux.

Today it is back to work.

Just another beautiful evening, Sunflower and I have had the last few days off to celebrate our anniversary. The girls are in Memphis for a long weekend of drunken debauchery. We will pick them up at the airport tomorrow evening, We haven't really done much with our time off except relax. We have slept in, ate at our favorite restaurants, gone to the gym to swim, and caught up on some yard work. Tonight, Sunflower is in the recliner watching a movie, and I am sitting on the patio again with my trusty MacBook and a glass of really nice Zinfandel. Tomorrow we will have the last day of this vacation and then back to work Tuesday, Tonight, we drink wine and relax.

Good morning friends,

Thirty two years ago today, Sunflower and I were married. It has been a great thirty two years. I am sure the next thirty two years will be better

Good afternood friends,

I hope you are having a lovely day.

Sunflower and I slept in a bit, then got out for the day. It is an absolutely stunning day here in flyover country. We started by putting the top down on the jeep. We went to the City Botanical Gardens and walked the trails looking at the last of the early spring flowers and the beginning of the summer stuff.

We Drove to a small town a few miles away to visit Sunflower's favorite quilting store to congratulate the owner for her selection by Quilt Sampler Magazine for the fall 2007 issue's top ten quilt shops.

Back in town, we stopped at the mall and made a payment on our account at the jewelry store, then to Granite City for a delicious lunch.

We shopped around at the various garden stores and picked up a couple of flats of petunias. Sunflower is now distributing them among the various planters. I am doing the heavy lifting, but otherwise sitting at the patio table with my MacBook just enjoying the wonderful Spring evening.

How was your day?

Good evening friends,

Friend Roger, I am doing fine. Things have been pretty busy around here. For the last seven years, my largest client has been the local University. for the last few months, I have been working on a complete remodel of the Administration building fire alarm. During this time, they have gutted the old Engineering Building and done a complete asbestos abatement. I have a couple of spots in this building still reporting, and will start on the new fire alarm soon. Last week, I got a call from the facilities manager to meet him in the library. He wanted a quote to remove all 150 smoke detectors on the ground floor of the Library so they can jack hammer up all of the concrete and rebuild that level from the dirt up. The Radio and Television department need to be redone, and this afternoon they told me that the food court in the Student Center is to be redone starting June first. If no other new projects are started, I may catch all of this stuff up in a year or so. In the meantime, the non-University service calls keep coming in. Manny came back, and it looks like we are going to promote Bobby up from the mechanical dept to the Alarm dept. This means that instead of two weeks of twenty four hour on call and four weeks off, there will be eight weeks in between.

I took this as a temporary job twenty eight years ago.