You wait all week for Saturday, and...

It's raining. Yup. A dog event that I've had on the calendar for 2 months is cancelled due to a pain-in-the-butt Low pressure system that's now sitting near southwestern Virginia and bringing clouds and showers from VA to Maine. We were supposed to go the Pet Appreciation Festival and Pet Memorial Day observance
at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium, MD with our friends Brooke, Pat and their dog Eli. Well, I'm pretty miffed. I wait all week to finally do something that's not work and it's cancelled. Okay, it wouldn't so bad if we didn't have 17 straight days of Sunshine and No rain beforehand. Timing is everything.
On top of that, we got our haircuts this morning at a nearby barber. There were 4 people cutting hair, and an older gentleman (who was one of the barbers) said "Next." I went next. Big mistake. I have a big "lump" of hair on the side of my head that he didn't thin out to match the other side. I now have to trim it myself or pad it down with lots of hair gel until my next haircut. I knew he'd screw something up when he wouldn't stop talking about his wife and kids great "2 week adventure out west." He kept stopping and talking with his hands over and over again. Yeah, I was exasperated. Meanwhile, Tom and another person were done with another barber (a more talented woman) in the time it took the Talker to finish chopping my hair. Thaaaaaat's great.

Our July 4th Weekend!

It was a busy weekend... the only fireworks we experienced were the ones neighbors decided to shoot off starting at 11pm, when we were trying to sleep! Oh, well...that's when the rain finally stopped. We've been mowing and gardening, tiling more flooring in the hallway, removing tree branches, fixing fences, sanding iron fence pieces to paint and lots of dog walks with Franklin and Dolly. I'm also working on a slide show presentation for my older brother's 50th birthday party this coming weekend.
We DID have fun this weekend -


We met Steve and Jane at Ft. McHenry in Baltimore for a nice 4th lunch at 11am. We all brought stuff and Dolly and Franklin came along. We found a picnic table, ate, and then walked the perimeter of the Fort, which is on a peninsula overlooking Baltimore Harbor, so it was really nice...and the Thunderstorms held off.
We had a shopping afternoon with our friend Jeff on Saturday. We took all the trash from the flooring tiling (old carpet, padding), and branches to the dump first.. so we told Jeff that "this is the famous dump that we go to." I always kid Tom that he loves going to the dump so much, that it's our "romantic place." :) - Anyway, after that, we shopped at Plow and Hearth (an upscale garden/backyard store) in Hunt Valley, Md. - north of Baltimore. Then a trip to IKEA!! - (then it rained/t-stormed at night.
It took two nights to watch the movie "40 Year Old Virgin" that our neighbor lent us. It was okay- laugh out loud in a couple of parts, goofy in others. We of course, also watched DVDs of our fav TV shows, because with 99 channels, there was nothing on!! So we saw a "Murder She Wrote" episode and a couple of "Seinfeld" shows. We ended Sunday with a nice dinner at Friendly's with Tom's folks. His stepdad, Bob drove, and at one point so close to the car in front of us, that Tom, Mom and I yelled for him to stop! I told Bob that I think I almost soiled my shorts!
It was a busy weekend!!