Hilltop Swim Club, Graduation & No CBC

I was awake well ahead of anyone else. It was still before 7am. I freed Frankie from her overnight accommodations then started the coffee making process. While coffee brewed, I headed out with the dog. It was another lovely morning with temperatures hovering in the mid 60’s under totally clear skies. Because it was Sunday I didn’t plan to do calisthenics. Instead, just coffee, stretch, and run. Like the day before, I enjoyed my coffee from the deck and on the chaise lounger. So nice! Sometime around 8am I was joined by Bella and Kaileigh, who after a brief greet, took Frankie out in the yard to romp around. Mindy got up around 9am, and after some coffee started prepping a Sunday family-style breakfast consisting of bacon and pancakes. While Mindy started that, I readied for a run. I’ll bet I headed out at 930am. I ran the usual 3 mile Sunday trail out along Trabue and down Hague ave. I noticed the golf course parking lot was full. I ran shirtless again. As one might expect, I was hungry upon my return from the run. I enjoyed a number of pieces of bacon and then a few pancakes. I tooled around in the yard some while the kids played. Mindy made plans to take the kids to the Hilltop pool, its inaugural weekend, around 1230pm. And for the first time since last Memorial Day weekend, I vacuumed out Mindy’s Pilot just before they left. I took care of a number of small but nagging chores while Mindy & the kids were gone. They weren’t gone long at all. They were back before 3pm so that Kaileigh could be picked up by Shelly, her step mom. I was outside with Frankie when they got home. And it wasn’t too much longer before Shelly showed up to pick-up Kaileigh. She had Sienna with her too. She’s very cute. They stayed for about 20 minutes. Not long after they left, Jimaken showed to pick-up the kids again. He was taking them to a Clippers game and keeping them overnight. Mindy & I had plans to attend a graduation party for a former student of hers, but were still undecided about whether we’d be making the trek to Johnstown to yet another graduation party for our friends, Mike & Julie’s son. We headed to the first grad party in Grove City around 530pm. I’d been to this house before, two years ago in fact, when Nicole's older sister graduated. Mindy talked with another educator through most of our relatively brief visit. In their discussion, what I found interesting was their methods for motivating/steering their children the right direction. Strict! It was after 7pm when we left, maybe closer to 730pm. Mindy phoned Chrissy to let her know that we weren’t gonna make the drive up to Johnstown after all. Instead, we decided on a dinner stop at CBC. We arrived after a short drive. Unfortunately, CBC was closed, apparently because it was Sunday, a point that both of us kept forgetting given the holiday weekend. It didn’t take us too long at all, however, to conjure up a back-up plan – Barley’s. Monica was working the bar. Haven’t seen her in a very long time, her or Thad. She served us up our favorite drinks, me a West Coast IPA and Mindy a Great Lakes Stout. We eventually ordered food. I ordered a Texas burger while Mindy went with their brisket nachos. My burger was delicious. I drank two beers. Mindy only one. We headed home just before closing, 9pm. Honestly, we didn’t do a whole lot once there. Both of us were tired. We went to bed early. Old, I guess.