Family Vacation Day 18

Today I had another 'date' with the weeds you might say. After breakfast I went out to do some yard work. As usual Daisy was right at my side. First I had to move about 3 wheel barrel loads of weeds to the dumpster. There I found out that one of our neighbors has again filled that thing up about 2/3 of the way...and I know who the guy is. If I should catch him in the act I will have a rather serious conversation with him, because that's not the way we do things out here.

After the dumped the weeds into the trash bin and compressing it a little to leave enough room for the other neighbors I went back and cleared some of the weeds that had started to grow in the driveway. Those weeds particularly have been going on my nerves. And if the fire marshal should happen to drive by, at least he sees that weed removal is being done. Next I turned my attention to the west facing slope and pulled some more weeds there.

Mom spent some time walking around the house, but soon went back in. She wasn't too keen on today's weather. I wasn't really bothered by it, but I know that there are people out there that don't enough the build-up of a Santa Ana event. It's a hard to describe weather phenomena..Hot but not super hot...strong offshore breezes, but not quite strong winds yet...and a mixture between partially dry air masses. Some people react to it, but I'm not bothered by it at all...guess I've gotten used to it over the years.

After I was hot, sweaty and a little itchy from the weeds I went inside to cool down. Around 2 pm I warmed up some left overs. Mom and I had veggie rice and left over 'Grenadiermarsch'. After that we just relaxed. Later in the afternoon we spent some time chatting. We had an fairly early dinner, as we didn't have to wait for Kenny since he was attending a Quidditch Meeting. Mom and I chose to have left over pizza. After that we relaxed and watched 1 episode 'House Hunters International' and 1 episode 'Selling New York'.

All in all a productive and relaxing day at the same time. Still no word on when my Sis, Bernd and my 2 nephews will be rejoining us.