A Perfect Day

First, this morning. After the demands in the comments for tan line pics [what kind of sick freaks are you people? i like it.] here's the dreaded right leg. It's still pretty burned, and you can see the huge white back of my knee, and if you look closely you can see the sock tan line at the very bottom.




And of course, when Bigun saw us taking pictures of my leg, she had to get in on the action.




I think yesterday might have been the most perfect day I've had in a very long time. I got an early start to work thanks to someone else that scheduled an 8 am meeting with a client. And they approved this project I've been working on for 2 months! We finally got to take this thing live. Then I got together with the other manager for a product outline and it went way better than I expected. And thanks to the early start, I was able to knock off work about 5 pm, which doesn't usually happen.


Then I got out in the garden with the girls and we got some of the green beans planted. We sunk all of the pole beans that are going to grow up the fence. And we found peas growing nicely, there are hundreds of pods on the pea plants. Some of the plants are about 3' tall now, and some are only a foot. but they are loaded. And if that wasn't enough, we got the first harvest of the season:




The girls were picking and eating big red strawberries that are finally ripe. Last year the squirrels ate most of our strawberries, they seem to be leaving things alone this year which is great!


Morgan came through in a big way last night too. My plan was to hit the gym for some treadmill intervals before dinner. But I blew off the run. Morgan's girlfriend is graduating from law school on thursday, she goes to school somewhere in Mississipi, and is moving back to Greenville on friday. We can't wait to have her back in town. But, she has season tickets to the Greenville Drive, a Red Sox farm team here in our minor league town. Morgan was too tired to use the tickets last night, so he gave us the tickets AND offered to babysit the kids while we went to the game!!! Kelley was incredibly paranoid about Morgan being able to get the kids to bed sucessfully, but it wasn't a problem. We grabbed some quick dinner (Firehouse Subs) and headed downtown for the game. The Drive won 7 - 2, the field is modeled after Fenway Park and one of our players hit a home run over the green monster. It was a really fun game, and the kind of night out that parents of toddlers NEVER get to have. I even had a hot dog and a couple of large beers. ah yea, nothing better than drinking outside on a cool summer night.

*** Biggest Liar spoiler alert ***
After the game we watched the finale of the Biggest Liar. I can't believe Helen won! She looked unhealthy thin, down to 117 lbs. Mike was great, and Ron suprised me too. I don't think he's been 226 lbs since he was about 12 years old. Jerry winning the at home prize was completely unexpected. He really lost the lb's after only a couple of weeks on the ranch. But he's only 2 years older than my dad, and he looks old enough to be my dad'd dad. It's odd. Still, he's gotten healthy and added years to his life, and that's the point. Tara is still my favorite, and she was only 6 lbs short of winning the whole thing. amazing. It was a great season overall.

Blaine and Dane showed off their medals, they did a half marathon, full marathon, and half ironman in 3 straight weeks after leaving the ranch and want to go ironman now? Good luck to them. At least they weren't showing off the medals from the marathon BL lied to us about. sub 4 hours my ass. These guys really seemed to be enjoying the endurance training, so more power to them.


And since a great day has to be followed by a rough day (apparently) Bigun woke us up at 2 am being scared of the dark. And this morning I overslept until about 8:15 so I'm already way behind. And Bigun has her first ever dentist appt this morning, and we can't find a babysitter for Evil Genius. When you let Evil loose in a dentist office, there's no telling what kind of mischief will ensue.


Happy hump day!