UMTravels

Today’s big project (albeit unplanned) was getting the rain barrels put in.

It started with moving the lawn because people were coming for dinner. By mid-day, the fence that had been annoying me on one side was down giving me access to the front driveway area from the back yard, the yard was moved, two trees planted, and four rain barrels installed (which meant cutting downspouts and putting in jogs).

Phew! Afternoon was SOB stuff, until Wonderful showed up for dinner early which meant he got to help me clean the office since he wanted a print for the Great Art Party Invitation off the big printer that wasn’t hooked up (and in the office/guest bedroom that still had boxes stacked everywhere). Rugs are now down, the bed is made, the printer running, and the boxes put away. Just needs some art on the walls to made it complete.

Dinner tonight is sponsored by Chris Schilling in honor of the opening of Copper River Salmon season. Alaska Airlines flew in 32,000 pounds of Copper River Salmon from Alaska on the first day of the season — the total for the entire season will be over a million pounds. They are putting their new fleet of 737-400 Combis (combination freight and people on the upper deck) to good use.

Dinner is two huge hunks of Copper River Salmon, and eight scallops — I hate to imagine what the seafood bill was! In addition, Wonderful made these lovely little cracker snacks, Chris brought cucumber salad and Marlin from Portland (person, not fish), I made Cole slaw — lots of wine. Good time at the BBQ tonight.