Friday updates

The new header photo says it all. Most weekends since Memorial Day have been muggy, stormy, rainy, in short....great growing weather.

As you can see, the garden is thriving and as I sit here updating the blog, I'm thinking I should try to mow the grass between raindrops today. Otherwise, I'm just checking off the usual chore list and getting caught up on some work I brought home. This seems like the final week of coughing and hacking...a bothersome chest cold that mom, Anne and I all seemed to share post-Milwaukee adventure. Hope you're feeling better, Mom....you too, Anne!

This past month we've seen 0ur share of doctors and hospitals. Quite enough for the time being with Gregg's cyst and gall bladder surgeries, Nea's poison scare (she ate a seed pod from the neighbor's false indigo plant-no harm done) and Em's pregnancy getting really uncomfortable. On top of that, Gregg was told he should get his deviated septum repaired and yet another cyst (this time in his sinus cavity) checked out. We think he'll hold off til the fall for that. Enough with the sickness, etc. eh?

Ahhh, Mexico just scored! FIFA fever has struck Elmwood Ave and the rest of the world this weekend. Gregg had official Marcos-sized jersey's delivered just in time for our grandson to dress appropriately to watch the matches with his poppa this week!

To do list for the rest of June: to Holland for Father's Day; trip to Mt. Pleasant and then Chicago for work the next consecutive weeks for me; birthday's, birthdays, birthdays.....9 total this month in the family. Plus a couple of anniversaries for good measure!

Looks like the rain and now thunder will keep me in the house today after all, though I need to clean up the paint on the decorative window frames I painted last week for the garden fence.

Happy Friday to all. GO MEXICO!!