19 August 2012

Had to fire up the RV furnace to take the chill off while having breakfast this morning.  Isn’t this August, the only WARM month in Vermont????  Spent most of the morning scrubbing and buffing, making Delores and her environs ready for guests.  Alverta and Lynne arrived at 11:30, a full hour before I was expecting them. With some frenzied activity, got the remaining preps done while trying to be a semi-attentive host.  Lunch was served promptly at 1.  Jake arrived as we were finishing our repast… and in short order inhaled nearly as much food and drink as the three of us had already put down our gullets.  Perry arrived (not hungry) as the four of us were finishing dessert.  While Perry, Jake, and I sat around the campfire talking about walkway engineering, the two ladies retired to the RV and apparently spent some quality time “evening up the edge” of the still-warm walnut-infused Ghirardelli chocolate brownies.  Least wise the baking dish was a lot less full than I remembered when time came to put the brownies under wrap.  Guests departed at 3, a few minutes before Merry and Graham came up the hill for a walkway tour (and to distract me from attacking the awaiting kitchen calamity).  After the dishes were done, the rest of the day and evening was spent doing financial analysis for Alverta.  Have I mentioned yet how much I dislike the #$@!%^! “new and improved” touchpad mouse on my new laptop?