Aw, these golf cart stories are great! I had no idea.

I ended up getting the peach based seasonal cocktail followed by a flight of sangrias (that I expected to be sample sized but were not) and then that glass of wine because my judgment was all shot to hell by then anyway. All pretty tasty although I am not used to sangria including vodka or rum or whatever. Anyway, lying down now.

I drove the beer golf cart when Heart did our annual golf tourney (for Heart). Man, I've never been so welcomely received!

I did that when I worked at the snack bar at the country club -- we'd take turns driving the beer golf cart, and those golfers were always so damn happy to see us.

I ended up getting the peach based seasonal cocktail

I also had a seasonal peach based cocktail tonight!

Today was Matilda's first day of school which let's out at 1:30 on Wednesdays. I called at 3:30 to see where she was: "I'm cleaning our Mr. Sunada's desk! I'm busy right now."

Mr. Sunada is (a) one of her favorite teachers; (b) a PE teacher; (c) not one of her teachers this year.

I think she's happy to be back amongst her school people.

Well, the semester hasn't even started yet, and one of my colleagues already has Covid, so this seems like it's going to go great. I am so not ready for this semester to begin.

The Covid instances among the vaccinated is very concerning. My step-dad got it July 1st and it took 5 weeks before he tested negative! He's feeling better, just frail. Doctor says long Covid. Yes, he was vaccinated. But elderly with heart issues.

Sounds like an excellent way to start vaca, -t. Hope you hydrated when you got home!!

Ha! The beer golf carts are making me laugh.

Peach based cocktails and sangria tales are making me thirsty, but it's a little early yet. I guess.

Glad Matilda is back in the groove on day one!

Second day I've slept through my phone alarm, so I guess I need to change the song. Woke DH up but not me. Oops.

Huh. It looked like the dude who lives diagonally in the back yard view just waved from his deck, but I'm inside and sort of always assume no one can see in. Maybe I need to rethink that... for purposes of decency.

Anyway, good Thursday to you all.

Anyway, good Thursday to you all.

So far so good. Did my run this morning. Making JZ's lunch (crabcake and salad).

And the daughter of my best friends, Alison, is in town and I get to see her on Saturday! I'm super excited to see Claudia because she's very smart and cool and I intend to spoil her rotten.

For the record, we have renamed Gimlet as Ringo. Because he's got bangs like Ringo.

Also, I've got three packages to mail today so that'll be fun.

Here is Gimlet's description from the animal control website: "Gimlet is a classic gem of a guinea pig gent, not unlike his namesake cocktail. He's well balanced (in his enjoyment of exploring and chilling in his hidey hole), is the epitome of good taste (leafy greens, yum!) and has a soupçon of elegance. Granted he lacks the scurvy-preventing lime of the gimlet cocktail, but he more than makes up for it in cuteness. "

Boy, that pig sure had your number. It didn’t even occur to me that you hadn’t picked that name. And the description is very us.

Edit: hahaha timing. Welcome Ringo!

I went to Isla Mujeres a few years ago and golf carts are common transport there. It makes so much sense for smallish-but-more-than-I-want-to-walk distances.

Timelies all!

Mr. S decided to watch Toy Story 4. We actually saw this in the theater, but considering that he spent most of the movie running around, he probably doesn't remember much.

One of the houses from my "Ooh, I'd like to live there" list just went up for sale today, and I saw a For Sale sign in the front yard of another on my way back from driving by it (but they may be selling a vehicle rather than the house). Wish me luck on the house hunt, gang!