So this is going to be attempt #2 at writing a longer blog post. I’ve waited 24 hours since the last longer post (which for some reason didn’t go through). This time, prior to hitting the ‘post’ button, I’m saving the text so I can always re-post if need be. Yeah.
As this is the second composition, it’s likely to be significantly shorter than the original, but I’ll probably hit on all the topics again.
In short, our weekend was pretty busy — everything from ‘kidnapping’ to pseudo-camping to air conditioning to a ride in a convertible happened this weekend. And overall it was a good time.
Friday afternoon Beth and Jill stopped by my office to ‘kidnap’ me. We made our way to Erik & Jill’s house, where shortly thereafter Erik and I went to have a beer with a guy I don’t know whose birthday it was on Friday. Good times.
After that, we loaded up Henry’s car seat in our car (along with Kirstin’s), then Beth and Jill got in our car while Erik and I took the convertible on a countryside drive about 25 miles to Glacial Lakes State Park where Beth’s folks were camping for the weekend. We hung around there and had some pork chops and whatnot. Started a campfire, burned up some armyworms, and just basically hung around.
We left there pretty late that night (sometime around 10:30), came home, and went to bed. Got up Saturday morning after sleeping in a bit, did some outside work, then loaded up and headed back to the park around noon to spend the rest of the day. Beth, Rick, and I went on about a four mile hike on a trail through the park; that was a good time. We just basically hung out and did little, which is alright some times.
We got home pretty late again on Saturday night, and then did our usual Sunday morning routine. We got invited to a bit of an afternoon gathering (for lunch and then some additional hanging around), so that’s how we spent our mid afternoon. Sunday evening was littered with storms, but they were all south of us. Not a drop of rain for our place. Which is okay in a way.
I officially turned on the central air conditioner Saturday before we left for the park. I knew it was going to be humid and hot, so rather than leave the house closed up (and stale), I switched the system to cooling mode. It was nice to come home to at least an un-humid house. It’s been running off and on ever since (but it’s been in the mid-80’s to around 90 the last several days), and likely will remain that way through the better part of this week.
I am definitely glad we’ve got it available though, because it makes for much more comfortable living quarters during the day and even at night. That and it’s more efficient overall than the previous cooling method of two window air conditioners (one 7,000 BTU unit we had in our bedroom and then a 20,000 BTU unit permanently mounted in the dining room). And it’s significantly quieter than either.
Anyway, this is VBS week, so we’ve been busy with that so far. Good times — tonight was the first night, and things went pretty well. That’s a Good Thing. So it should hopefully continue that way. We get to go check out the local airport tomorrow evening, so that’s gonna be cool!
I know I had more to ramble about, but I’ve forgotten since then…so I’m going to call it a night and sign off. Until next time…
–MZ