The Weekend In Review.

.....Friday night started off with a cook-out over in Port Orchard. 'Fajita Night' was the theme. Conchobar grilled the pork and several others made at least four or so types of salsa. It was very good. They were celebrating the end of the school year. Almost made me wish I were a teacher. :-) The conversation was good, so much so that I was reluctant to leave. Especially when the subject matter started gravitating towards the Sargeantry, what it was, how it was obtained and what it should be to be a member. But by 9PM Rhys had had enough of the adult conversation and the children that were younger than he. It was time to go home.

.....On Saturday TBT had a play-date with Mistress Gwenllyn in her pottery studio. She was there most of the day and it sounded like she had a great time. I stayed home and worked on a circlet order for freewaydiva. I knocked out three circlets by a little after noon. They still need a final polish. But she is coming over to a class next weekend and they'll be done in plenty of time for her to pick them up.

.....At about 2PM I went and did some grocery shopping for Mom and then got ready for a road trip to Olympia. By this time TBT was back home and about to run Rhys off to The Goddess Nim's (TGN) house for a Rhys play-date with her children.

.....It was such a beautiful day on Saturday. The weather was warm and summer was in the air. I had all the windows down and the sun roof open. I had bad '80's music playing in the CD player. Styx was primarily in the queue and it was turned up loud. I felt young and was having a great time. The wind was blowing and if I pretended hard enough I could almost remember what it was like to have hair again blowing behind me in the wind. :-)

.....Saturday was Sir Richard's birthday party at his house. Talk about a contrast in parties. Friday's was full of people in the 20's and maybe 30's. Saturday's was all about people in their 40's and 50's. I knew that I was on a different planet when the conversation turned to all the mailers people were getting from AARP. :-)

.....I'm glad I went though. Richard is a good person and I consider myself to be lucky to have him as a friend. It was a good turn out for him. Among the attendees were Sir Walter and Katriona. She cornered me to ask questions about Glymm Mere possibly hosting a Kingdom Event. Glymm Mere hasn't actually hosted a major event since their Twelfth Night about ten years ago. Katriona is initially thinking of holding their event at Dragon Sphere Park. I urged her to check out places more local. She was reluctant thinking about how expensive everything is these days. But I reminder her that the Kingdom is doing pretty good right now financially and that they could afford to help with the bill. She hadn't considered that direction and I could see the wheels turning. I told her that I'd urge Dragon's Laire to help in any way that it could.

.....I took off around 8:30 and headed home. It still felt good to be on the road and I again had the windows down and the stereo blasting. This time it was Cinderella, Gun's 'n Roses, and Whitesnake. I felt like I was in my 20's again. By the time I hit the corner where Hwy 3 head's off to Silverdale I almost took the right so that I could run and catch the Saturday night cruise in downtown Bremerton. I miss that cruise. It was a lot of fun and the place to people watch and be seen. The Bremerton police were amazingly tolerant as well. We got away with a lot. In Port Orchard where I lived in my 20's, anywhere more than two people in their 20's gathered, the Port Orchard Piglets would instinctively gather, something like Gabriel's angelic forces surrounding the legions of hell. Good Days. :-)

.....Today was 'Death to Hedge'!!! TBT took some awesome 'before-and-after' pictures. Bernie and Tsuruko came over with their chipper-shredder and we cut the entire hedge down. About 95% of it now consists of a pile of chips in the back yard. It was a lot of work, but the front yard looks so freakin' different now! Wow! The front yard and driveway look like they are twice as big now. But everything looks so much more neat and tidy, and just better all around. Even the sailors across the street commented on how much better the front yard looks. I hadn't realized how scraggy and unkept the hedge was. We even knocked down the hedge behind the mailboxes. I think the neighbors will be happy with that one. Except for the fact that I think that the hedge there was the only thing keeping that string of mailboxes upright. :-) We'll have to fix that.

.....Now I just have to stay awake long enough to get my laundry for the week done. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.