Feeling Friday

1) hanging basket #1
2) hanging basket #2
3) It's what's on the Firkin
4) Rick's sister and brother-in-law
5) Sparky's pointing out that we're out of the good stuff

It’s finally Friday! I was up and eager to greet my favorite day of the week. Like all others, I began the day with some exercise and a walk around the neighborhood. I was up a little late than usual – about 5:45am. By the time I delivered Mindy’s coffee, she was already in the shower.

I packed our lunch and made eggs for breakfast. After Mindy and the kids departed for school I headed up to the shower. It was another somewhat cool day where the high was expected only to reach into the 60’s.The weekend outlook, on the other hand, calls for increased sunshine and warmer temps.

My morning in the office was hectic. There was an awful lot going on. I received and VM and email from Bob Imber wondering if I would be interested in Sunday golf at Cook’s Creek. I responded shortly after seeing it. He needed a quick response to take advantage of a reduced online green fee deal. I checked with Mindy before giving him an OK. Mindy was cool with it. After all, her and I would be spending our Saturday together and I would be back in time Sunday afternoon for the graduation party we’re planning to attend.

The rest of the morning at work kept my full attention. I wasn’t able to leave for a run until 1:05pm. It was again a little cool. I ran in shorts, shirt, and jacket. It must have been in the upper 50’s with cloud cover and an occasional peak of sunshine. As always, the shower felt great. Add to that the euphoria of Friday, I was feeling fine! I returned to my office to enjoy a scaled down lunch. I stayed busy through the afternoon coming up for air just as 5pm approached. I was excited about the weekend ahead.

I stopped at Kroger along my way home where I picked up flowers for Mindy. She was sleeping when I arrived home, still feeling under the weather. I wondered if she would still feel like going out, or more importantly, going to Salt Fork tomorrow as planned. I didn’t bother waking her. I sat the flowers on the table and quickly leashed up Ykraps for our evening walk.

After returning from my walk, I quickly switched gears and moved to watering flowers - some thing I had been looking forward to all day. Despite the cool gray weather, I don’t want to allow my flowers to go more than two days without a good soaking. I watered both the front and back bed thoroughly. Mindy came out to thank me for the flowers about half way through. Watering is a fantastic transition activity that helps move from Jimmy the manager to Jimmy the husband and homeowner.

After the watering was complete I cracked a Honey Raspberry Ale and chatted with Mindy. We talked about our weekend, our fast approaching trip, and the kids. Mindy headed up stairs to freshen up while played a little guitar, updated my blog, and talked with daughter Ashley. I went up to change into something more fitting for an evening at Barleys. We left the house at 7:40pm.

There was sparse crowd tonight, although it got thicker as the evening rolled onward. Most of the regulars were there: Bob, M.A., Jeremy, Courtney, little baby Jump, Steve, Rick, Dan, and of course Lee and Janet. Tim was apparently in earlier although we missed him. He bought a new Harley and wanted to spend his evening with his new toy.

Still somewhat under the weather, Mindy had only one glass of wine along with her dinner. I had only a couple bites of her food. I wasn’t that hungry suddenly. Later in the evening, we noticed our neighbors David, Becky, and her father sitting in a nearby booth.
Mindy went over to say hello. I joined her minutes later. We talked with them for about an hour. We left Barley’s around 10:30pm. I called and ordered a Minelli’s pizza just as we got in the Trooper (Mindy drove home). The pizza was ready when I arrived. We were home minutes later. I was really hungry since I hadn’t eaten anything substantial for about nine hours. Mindy was too tired to stay up. She went on to bed. I stayed up and polished off just shy of half a pizza. I found my way to bed some time around midnight.