Weekend Roundup

Another very busy weekend, socializing wise.
Saturday morning we dropped off our house guest Fiver (see photo) at Tom and Sue Germain's (it's always such a pleasure to see them) on our way to meet Chris and Jeannie for a late breakfast at Gorman's in Stillwater. It was so good to see their smiling faces; they'd driven Chris's motorcycle there (breaking a couple of laws in doing so, as Chris only has his permit so far) and only had one helmet between them, but they were on their way to buy another one right after breakfast.

Jeannie has just resigned from her position at Gillette Children's Hospital (where Chris works also); she's very excited about her new job at Patterson Dental. We talked mostly about her new venture and also about changes happening at Gillette. I think they're both very happy.

After breakfast we did some grocery shopping for the weekend, and then came home and did housecleaning and prep cooking. Michael and Martha (and Deputy) came over for dinner; it was great to see them too.They were rather spent from their 3 hour bike trek earlier in the day. Carrie questioned Michael about part of his life that she may be using in her book. We had shrimp skewers on the grill, with two different sauces. Very yummy, that recipe is always a sure thing. M & M crashed pretty hard after dinner, so they spent the night. We're always glad to be able to put folks up, being out in the boonies as we are.

Sunday morning the four of us had a very informal breakfast and pretty soon Christine and Richard arrived for our next activity: doing a controlled burn on part of the prairie. Martha and Michael took off for home and we got to the fire. (I'll do a separate post on the burn soon.)

Bob Gunn also came to help out; he's back in town after spending weeks in Colorado overseeing the remodel of their home in Estes Park. He had lots of photos to show us and it looks like quite an extensive project. The site where the house is located is post-card beautiful.

In the afternoon, after everyone had left, we just pretty much vegged out after our full weekend. Read, played on computers, changed sheets, stuff like that.