Monday, July 03, 2006

Independence Day Greetings

A long weekend every once in a while is really nice.  Today, Monday July 3, 2006, I didn’t go in to the office so I could spend the day with Jen doing some of the chores around the house that pile up.  Actually I tried to finish the deck I have been building, but alas, there is still more to do.  

When Jen works Holidays, and she seems to work most of them, it isn’t much fun celebrating by myself.  Instead, I plan to use tomorrow to get several days study and planning done.  Everyone else will be busy so I should have the day to myself.  Unless I go play golf, or work on the deck some more, or go see some fireworks, or take a hike in the mountains, or . . .  well you get the idea.  There are always a million things to do.  

Tonight some friends invited us over for an American Revolutionary Period Dinner.  All of the foods were from recipes from the Revolutionary period.  At my plate I used a fork and knife from that period.  The fork was like a serving fork, two tines, very sharp.  It was like the fork you use to hold the turkey still while you carve it, only it was personal size, not serving size.  It had an antler handle, a real antique.  The knife was like a regular butter knife except the blade was about 3 times as wide and very thin.  I enjoyed the experience.  

Happy 4th of July.  (BIG BOOM)

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