{"id":988,"date":"2012-06-17T19:45:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2012-06-17T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T00:45:07","slug":"recap-of-this-week-june-17-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Recap of this week (June 17, 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was another hot one today.\u00a0 The last few days have been really adding up the heat.\u00a0 I think it’s Thursday evening now before they say it will be better.\u00a0 I like summer and the heat, but I’m really getting worried about what July will bring if it’s in the 90s now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I did voluntarily go back to work.\u00a0 Not sure I was ready, but you have to pay the bills.\u00a0 For that, I work at Motorola.\u00a0 Everyone seemed glad to see me back.\u00a0 I jumped in with both feet and tried to pick up where I left off.\u00a0 Not too much changed and I was able to keep up with the conversations without getting that glazed over look in my eyes.<\/p>\n

My intern was still there.\u00a0 I think she is finding the idea of what we do exciting.\u00a0 My plan to get her started with some actual writing this week.\u00a0 Technology hasn’t been too kind to either of us and we’ve been battling just trying to make our computers, emails, and the intranet sites work.\u00a0 Maybe next week will be better.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sascha is back to enjoying her yard and patrolling for squirrels.\u00a0 One evening, Rich tried to bring her into the house.\u00a0 He came back and said that he didn’t realize that dogs had a middle finger.\u00a0 From that comment, I take it Sascha made it very, very clear that she had no interest in coming back in.\u00a0 There is something grand and majestic about a husky that gives you that look when they want you to go away and leave them alone.\u00a0 Sascha does it very well.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, we met the Streeters’ Car Club to do the bi-monthly trash pick-up on our designated stretch of Bull Valley Rd.\u00a0 We had way more people than we needed, but the more the merrier.\u00a0 We had a couple of newcomers join us.\u00a0 So I got to meet some new people.\u00a0 We were done in less than an hour.\u00a0 However, we couldn’t join them for lunch this time.\u00a0 Rose was coming to visit today.<\/p>\n

We got back to the house and Rick had already left to pick up Rose.\u00a0 Guess it turns out that JP was coming with her.\u00a0 His plans had changed for the day.\u00a0 Rich and I showered and changed into clean clothes to meet our guests.\u00a0 Rick delivered them safely to the house from the train station.<\/p>\n

Rose walked into the living room and saw the big red chair.\u00a0 She immediately had to have her picture with Sascha in the big red chair.\u00a0 For those who don’t know or don’t remember, Sascha has been pretty well trained to think that the big red chair belongs to her.\u00a0 If someone sits in that chair, Sascha believes it is OK to sit with them, on them, or around them.\u00a0 Rose remembered all the photos of us and others with Sascha and had to have her picture also.<\/p>\n

Sascha, of course, obliged right away and hopped right into the big red chair.\u00a0 Since this is her favorite thing, Sascha seems to smile the entire time that she is in the chair.\u00a0 I snapped a picture for Sascha’s Facebook page, that Rick is constructing to capture the Big Red Chair Moments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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We went out to lunch and then Rich took JP and Rose for a ride in Sally.\u00a0 That was two trips because you can only take one person at a time.\u00a0 So JP went for a ride first.\u00a0 Then I quizzed JP on his new job while Rose took her turn.\u00a0 I understand technology and what’s going on out, but I don’t really know anyone doing the cool stuff.\u00a0 Except JP, that is.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was getting late and we had to drop the two of them off at the train station for their journey back downtown.\u00a0 The three of us headed to the outskirts of Chicago for a graduation party.\u00a0 Donna and Norm had two sons graduating.\u00a0 David graduated from college and Kevin graduated from high school.\u00a0 Donna is Rich’s cousin. It was a chance to hang out with family and we meet some of their very nice and interesting friends.<\/p>\n

Sunday was Father’s Day.\u00a0 Rich headed out early to get in some fishing time before the boats hit the river here.\u00a0 It turns out, you have to get their early before everyone brings their dogs down to swim in the river.\u00a0\u00a0 No catches, but Rich had a lot of nibbles.\u00a0 He thinks they were waiting for the bait to get soft and then they could take without much trouble.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rich has been working on a strategy for catching carp.\u00a0 I guess these are some wise and difficult fish to catch.\u00a0 They are bottom feeders and it takes a different strategy to get them interested in the bait.\u00a0 This means that Rich has been developing his own recipe for carp bait as well.\u00a0 A little messy to make in the kitchen, but the results could be rewarding.<\/p>\n

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After fishing, Rich and Rick worked on the truck some more.\u00a0 The air conditioning went out last year. This meant that the warm weather was a little less enjoyable if you had to drive the truck instead of the Honda.\u00a0 We got it looked at and an estimate for the work.\u00a0 The guys decided to do it themselves.\u00a0 It meant some replacement parts, but those came in on Friday.<\/p>\n

While the guys were working outside, I was trying to clean up the drifts of Husky hair that had been floating up and down the hallway all week.\u00a0 That dog can drop some hair.\u00a0 There might have been enough to two dogs there.\u00a0 I was vacuuming the bedroom, but coudln’t get Sascha out of under the bed.\u00a0 I managed to coax her out and put her outside.\u00a0 After I got done, I went to bring her in.\u00a0 However, she seemed to be enjoying watching the guys work.\u00a0 Therefore, I got the majestic death stare and she went back to observing her other humans.\u00a0 Fine, I can go about my business then.<\/p>\n

I finished up inside and went outside to try and reclaim some of my gardens from the wilderness.\u00a0 My side garden had been hopeless before I left for vacation.\u00a0 It was an extreme case now.\u00a0 I mowed the general garden paths with the push mower.\u00a0 Then I set about to pull the weeds from my daisies.\u00a0 With that done, I pulled out the weeds from the butterfly garden.\u00a0 Most of my black-eyed susans had been lost to the weeds.\u00a0 I might have to replant to get them back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Time for dinner.\u00a0 Rich cooked the steaks while Rick got the mushrooms done along with the baked potatoes.\u00a0 Adding a salad to the bowls, we dug in.\u00a0 After working so hard, we were all hungry.\u00a0 Maybe not me so much.\u00a0 Over vacation, I had cut down on the amount I was eating.\u00a0 I hope I can keep that up.\u00a0 It would be good for the waistline.\u00a0 Besides that, it meant that Sascha could have some bits of steak.\u00a0 She seemed to agree and ate it down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now I can relax this evening and get ready for the week to start all over again.\u00a0 I’m already tired just thinking about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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