Lots of fun lately

It's been the regular sort of stuff lately, except that we had a 'luau' for friends and neighbors on the Sunday before Labor Day.  It was fun.  Lots of laughs and great food.  The weather was perfect and we were able to be outside until way late into the night.  We grilled teriyaki chicken and Sonnenberg's sausages (great sausages from a Spokane meat/deli).  We had fresh crab dip, homemade quacamole, shrimp cocktail, homemade berry cobbler and backyard apples and berry pie with ice cream, really good jalapeno mac-n-cheese, a beet salad that was 'to die for' and all sorts of other goodies.  No one went hungry, or thirsty.  Brenna and Ty had an amazing time because they had lots of people that would pay attention to them, and Jon would always throw the toys for them.  We actually can't find one toy, it may be up in the bushes somewhere, and the puppies were both so tired by the end of the night.  Ty was even limping a little bit, but that didn't last long.

We also had a fun evening at Fish Tale Brew Pub with some folks from Mark's office and a guy from the Spokane office who is doing a detail over here for a few weeks.

Mark and I played golf on Labor Day and had a really good time.  The weather has been so amazing!  And the course was not crowded, so we got to play by ourselves.  Mark finally gave me a few pointers and it made a big difference in the way I hit the ball.  I need to bug him to give me more instruction when we're actually on the course.

I got the front stitches of my gum surgery taken out this week.  Yea!  The back ones will come out in two months.  Good thing none of this hurts or is bothersome.

I was not in the mood to make lunch for Mark on Tuesday night because I had been 'battling' with my computer and printer all night trying to figure out how to download some drivers.  So, Wednesday we went out to lunch at Top Food.  We like eating there -- they have a good oriental counter.  We had some really fresh spring rolls and an Empress chicken bowl.  Yum.

I'm taking care of Scampi, our neighbors cat, again.  She still likes me when I feed her, but gets grumpy after I feed her, much like "I'm done with you now, so you can leave."  She's very funny.

I worked my Weight Watchers shifts yesterday and today.  Both were good; fairly productive.

I wasn't in the mood to attend my cancer support group last night; I'm not sure why.  But, I didn't go, and that's ok.  I'll make it to the next one.

I made a big pot of veggie soup yesterday, and I think I'll go get it and start heating it up for dinner.  Right now, it sounds pretty good.  Plus, it's another beautiful day, so I should go sit outside and read for a while.  Chill out, etc.

And, that's it for now.