It is also national bald eagle day. There are some at the river, perhaps we should go bird watching this afternoon. Today is the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice, the first day of summer. We have approximately 15hrs and 44min of daylight here today. I have been busy as hell all week but the stimulating light makes it easy to stay peppy and energized. Yesterday I had a morning activity with my kid, came home to bake 50 banana muffins for a camp this morning, then got dressed and packed up for the farmer's market last night. That local market has been really good and busy so far and having a weekly event is awesome. Last year it took a lot of effort to track down all the local events and festivals and get signed up in time to attend. I'm still doing all the bazaars and festivals too but with this weekly event I'm a lot more steady in sales. Happy Friday! What are you plans? Grilling out? Camping? Fishing? Swimming? My kid is old enough to do all the things now and we are just having a blast this summer. Be good!
Band rehearsal on Saturday, and our neighbors are coming for dinner on Sunday, the ones originally from Africa I wrote about back in August. We've been meaning to have them over, it's just been one thing after another so finally I had my wife coordinate with them. Five more days of school after today, four of it with students, then I'm off for a couple weeks. I don't really want to work this summer, my wife tells me I don't have to, but the extra money is really nice. Last year we paid Christmas off before the end of January instead of racking up a higher credit card balance.
I was at a project site yesterday and spotted a bald eagle overhead. That was the height of the day. I spent about 24 hours in a small, dying town. Bizarrely, the hotel was very nice, but there was absolutely nothing to do in the area for miles. Things didn’t go well yesterday so my 24 hours consisted of an unproductive late afternoon at the jobsite, a very forgettable dinner, staring at my phone for three hours until I fell asleep then another unproductive 12 hour day. Cell service was practically nonexistent so I couldn’t get other work done or even kill time surfing the web. And the TV in the room was “challenged” so no tv watching either. It was like being in a bad movie about a guy stuck in purgatory. We’re having an abrupt weather transition. The heat was kicking on 3 days ago and we’ve had rain every day. Today is beautiful then the next week will be pushing 100 F and humid. I’ve got to get the air conditioners in the windows- no central air for us, just window AC that my aging back has to wrestle into windows. 4 of them. I’m grumpy.
Anybody else watch both of the Oceangate Titan documentaries? It’s amazing what money can do to some peoples’ conscience.
They’ve become more common here in our neck of the woods and still, seeing them never gets old. Just last week I saw this one feeding on something dead in a hay field:
Ive had asshole bosses and if I did an interview after they died it wouldn't be kind. I do wonder what type of objections some of those people really had as it happened. Other than the first navigator and the engineer that actually raised concerns did the others voice anything or just leave because working for an asshole usually results in high turn over and now they have a chance to dump on the guy publicly? The cracking noises was all a big fucking nope from me dog. Jesus
You mean the hull “seasoning?” That fucker was scared to death, and literally decided to ride it out rather than admit he was wrong. The Scottish engineer dude was awesome. The guy after him was a dick and only left when he started worrying he’d be ordered to pilot the thing.
Spending the afternoon at a German beer festival at a local German-American club. This place has been here forever. They have a full blown Oktoberfest in September with bands from Germany. Always a fun time hanging out here.
Would take those names over any of the intentionally misspelled tragedeighs. Jaxxon? Oakleigh? Brycen? Woof. Though I will say my kid's class roster is pretty crunchy at his very ~ * intentional * ~ preschool. Quest, Basil, Juniper, Rowan... you get the vibe.
I actually kind of like those names. How do you guys feel about Winter as a girls name? I’ve long thought that would be pretty cool.
There is a kid in our school district named that. I’m not sure how I feel about it, but it’s not as bad as some of the other names I hear. People don’t seem to understand that their unique little one is going to be an adult someday.
They've become pretty easy to find around here, too. Yes, it's always cool to see them. Here's our neighborhood eagle, also eating something dead.
The hottest stripper at the club I was a bouncer at (it was Fabulous Forum, Nett) called herself “Winter”. At the same time there was a girl there named “Autumn”.