What a Week, Part One

Last week was a very busy and hectic week. Between the quantity of material to report and my health state, it is probably going to take me several entries to cover everything.

Edith and friends arrived Monday afternoon. Edith was my original boss when I worked for a company in Germany. She wasn't exactly my boss because I had my own company and worked as a contractor, but she was the closest I had. We ended up really close friends. The other two of our guests were former coworkers. Only one of them still work for the company where we all met.

They rented rooms with the neighbor across the road who has cows. I had baked bread Monday, so they got bread with them for their breakfasts. DH also had a loaf. Monday night I made American pancakes for breakfast. We spent the evening talking and catching up.

The weather forecast for Tuesday was not as promising, although it did end up quite nice. They headed for the aquarium and some museums. DH worked on pouring concrete outside. I spent the day making Bexican style burritos a little at a time. With two vegetarians coming for dinner, I needed to make both a vegetarian and a meat variant. I say, I spent the day doing it, because I did things a little bit at a time. Otherwise I would have been entirely destroyed before they got here for dinner .

DH also got the message that our car was finished on Tuesday. In case I didn't mention the problem earlier, he had gone in the week before for inspection, expecting the brakes to need to be changed. The mechanic crawled under the car to work on the brakes and put his hand through a metal panel that was rusted through. So we had to face the expensive prospect of replacing lots of that stuff. But fortunately the mechanic is letting us pay in installments and this past Tuesday we got it back, newly inspected.

The burritos went over very well. We shared a couple of bottles of red wine with dinner. Then we headed to the beach. Because I couldn't walk very much, DH drove me and the girls down the gravel road towards the beach. That way, I only had to walk a short way. We were a bit too early for sunset, but the clouds weren't really right for a nice sunset anyway.

We enjoyed ourselves in any case.