So I ended up taking the hiatus I almost anticipated taking from ye olde blog this weekend. For the loyal readers, I’m sorry. Ditto for the Flickrites who probably don’t read this but check the pictures every day.

It was a busy weekend, and the picture caption entails a lot about what happened this weekend, but not in this medium.

For starters, there was a big family reunion on Saturday. The sort of event that I wasn’t necessarily looking forward to (nor was Beth), but the sort of event that you go to because it’s nice to see people you’ve not seen for some time. The rest of the people are in many cases such distant cousins that nobody knows each other by the time you get down to my generation.

Anyway, it actually went pretty well, and was in general worth going to. Of the many people I talked to, most I’d not seen since our wedding or Grandpa & Grandma’s 50th anniversary (five and four years ago, respectively)…so that was nice.

Saturday night was composed of darts and beer (as the picture implies). It was a good time hanging out with a smaller crowd of first cousins. 🙂 And we got to play some darts.

Sunday was a smaller gathering at Grandma’s house. It was then I was able to talk to a few I’d not been able to talk with on Saturday (like my third (I believe) cousin Debbie who lives in Hawaii. So that was nice. We also ended up playing a few darts in the afternoon and having another good day overall.

Of course, being away from home for a day or two makes coming home (and the thought of all these pictures) a bit daunting. It’s not too bad if you chop away at it a day at a time, which is a trick I learned a while back. So I ended up spending an hour tonight working on that (as anyone who checks out Flickr can see).

So today was back to the mill. It was exceptionally quiet today at work (which was really nice), so I managed to get a few things done. I took off early and came home to catch up on a few things (seeing as how I was gone for the weekend). Even though it was/is incredibly humid outside today/tonight, I weeded the front landscape (around the bushes and the perimeter of the house) after I fed the dogs and watered the plants. It was bothering me something fierce, so I had to take care of it. And I did, for now. In a perfect world, I’ll be working on that some this fall and perhaps into next spring. After that was done, I proceeded to the basement where I did some more mopping and cleaning.

Aside from that, it’s been a pretty normal Monday. This week is a bit strange (seeing as how there’s a holiday on Wednesday), so I’m not sure how productive I’ll be at all…but we’ll take it a day at a time.

So anyway, I’m baaack…at least until next time…

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
– Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

–MZ