Getting Stuff Done.

Or trying to at least. We had a pretty busy weekend. We were supposed to go to Ravinia with a Duke friend Friday night but the rain sort of washed out those plans. So instead we headed up to Grayslake, IL and our friend's uncle's house. It was quite an experience; great food, company and drink. It was a LOUD night. Loud enough that I seemed quiet in comparison, so that gives you an idea.

Saturday was the farm market since last week we didn't get a CSA produce box. A hail storm knocked out much of the crops at our CSA and the rest of the season was said to not be promising. At the farm market we got food for a week of meals; when we got home we had an email telling us we would be getting a produce box on Sunday. Oh well, there are worse things for you then too many veggies, like not enough freezer space. From there Claudia got her hair cut, well all of them, well I stayed at home and made fresh pasta for our pesto and pasta dinner, fresh pesto made later by Claudia.

Claudia got some new sneakers and we headed off to do our standard weekend errands. Once we got home I went out for a hot bike ride - it's finally up into the 90s with lots of humidity this weekend, it's been like a steam bath outside all weekend. While I was riding Claudia made the pesto and then we had a lovely dinner at our dinning room table. We find we connect much better at the table.

Then Sunday was Claudia's work party at the race track. Claudia won a whole 20 cents betting on a horse named after my mother and one of our best friends (Sue). We then got Claudia the heart rate monitor she has been eying since before we started the wedding registry and picked up a couple of other things at REI. It appeared we even had self control but not a ton. We did not have enough self control to drive by the Trader Joe's though, but we kept ourselves fairly in check there as well.

All and all a good weekend in Chicago, although it a warm one. Not that we don't know warm summers. We are off to Maine next weekend - the Lea's Storm Bar Harbor.