Countdown!

We're counting down to Saturday, June 26. The grandson and his parents moved into one guest room today. Two more couples arrive on Friday. The hubbub begins. It is a lawn wedding and a partially-open scalloped tent had been ordered but with the amount of rain we've had lately, my son decided that we should change the tent to the full-sided one--for an additional expense of course. Other than that everything seems to be on target. The refrigerator is full. The back deck has been hosed off and the oil candles filled with oil so we can sit outside and watch the grandson play while we visit with relatives we haven't seen since the last funeral or wedding.

I'm surprisingly unstressed. I've established that our house is to be bed and breakfast. We will eat out or order in for lunch and dinner Thursday through Sunday. Everyone is fine with that and I can spend time enjoying our guests instead of checking off menu ingredients. Our houseguests have diverse food preferences. We have two un-adventurous eaters--meat, potatoes and jello, two who will try anything, two vegetarians and one three-year old with a fancy for hot dogs, macaroni and cheese. The last guests leave July 2 and we leave for Brazil on July 4.

All the grandson wants to see are the gorilla, the crocodile and the elephant at the zoo, the butterfly pavillion and a baseball game. At three, it's so easy to please them.

This blog will be sandwiched between wedding doings and packing for our July 4th trip so posting will be sporadic and not terribly creative--unless the wedding provides a good story or two.

John Kerry has been in Denver the last two days and was well received. I like his command of the language, his intelligence and his understanding of how government is supposed to operate. His 35 years of experience with public policy definitely provides a contrast to Bush's trial-and--error arrogance. I do so hope Kerry can pull off a win and send Bush back to vacation at his Crawford Texas ranch, not just for the 42% of the time he spent there last year but for 100% of his time.

Comments

[Fran]

Paula has posted what an incredible wedding it was and I can hardly wait to see pictures. I understand that you are soon off to Brazil. I'll have to be patient.

[Elaine]

It sounds like a very good idea that you decided not to cook dinner or lunch. Trying to accomondate that many different sets of preferences would have driven you mad.