fret

This weekend the weather is beautiful - brilliantly sunny, cool, and breezy.

The forecast for next weekend - the wmtc party - is hot and humid, with thunder storms.

I'll hope the forecast changes during the week. One nice thing, if it rains and we have to be inside, it will look like a lot more people showed up! Our backyard is much bigger than our little house.

It's just a minor fret, though. I'm not worked up over it.

I wrote enough yesterday to keep you guys busy through Monday. So I'll leave it with this for now.

Comments

  1. James Redekop11 June 2006 at 07:56

    We'll bring umbrellas.

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  2. David Cho11 June 2006 at 12:50

    Turn the party into Woodenstock. Does your backyard get muddy?

    I wish I could be there.

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  3. laura k11 June 2006 at 13:00

    Does your backyard get muddy?

    Is the sun hot? Do I hate George Bush?

    Our backyard was a mud pit all winter. It drove us nuts. Now we've had some re-seeding done, and the grass has grown in a lot, and it's looking really nice. (It looks best from faraway. Close-up you can see that a lot of the green are various kinds of weeds and moss. But who cares - it's green!)

    I'm just gonna hope for good weather, and roll with it if it's not.

    I wish I could be there.

    Me too. :)

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