End of my weekend

Well, its the end of my five day weekend. I really, really needed this time off. I'm not really sure why, but last week really tired me out. Maybe I hadn't fully recovered yet from the crazy last month and all the stuff leading up to and including peacefest. And I do feel a little guilty saying that the kids really wore me out, meh, oh well. I think I knew that I hit my limit and that this would be a good recharge.

Yesterday was fantastic, a nearly perfect day. I woke up early to catch a metra train to the Chicago Botanic Garden's on the north side. The weather was perfect, there was even some good cloud cover to keep it nice and cool. The gardens are beautiful! I think it might be one of my new favorite places in the area, and I only saw about half of it even though I was there for over three hours. I really got a kick out of the fruit and vegetable garden that they had, it was on a four acre island and very well designed. Gave me a lot of inspiration should I garden next year.

After that I went with Mike to a Russian grocery where we got some fantastic food to dine on. We got a loaf of heavy dark rye bread, pickled herring, black sausage, and ate it with good cheese and mustard. To finish it, we had some gin that he has, which I didn't like at first but I'm starting to like it more and more. When I drink it, it smells like a juniper bush. Very fun. AND to top it off, the "Mighty" Ducks won game one of the Stanley Cup Finals, which I was very happy about.

I want to write another little story. I had a lot of fun writing the one about the kid on his bike, but haven't found inspiration yet for what to write about next. Maybe I should just start typing and whatever comes out of my fingertips will be it. I am reading a book right now that must have been made for me, in fact I'm convinced it was. It is a collection of short stories from a farmer in Vermont. How cool is that!

Right now as I type this, there is a grown man in my apartment looking at Josh's futon, he's going to buy it for his adopted son. He has two adopted children with a third one on the way. Very respectable and admirable.

I'm icing my thumb right now, burned it real bad making a batch of fried rice tonight.

Peace all.