Wedding Crash

My dear friend/former roommate J was recently married in a charming ceremony. Her grandfather performed the marriage - his advanced years were on full display throughout his commentary. J looked beautiful and it was wonderful to see friends from high school and others who I hadn't seen in years.

 D caught the garter. I'm sure he took it straight home to N.

The crash part came after the party, as D was walking me out to the parking lot. We watched someone backup/turn into the passenger side of my car.

$3,208 dollars worth of damage. It's still in the shop. Luckily, besides being slightly inconvenient, it hasn't been problematic. With everything else going on, a huge dent in the side of my car seems like small change.

Labor Day - Painting

 The parents moved to W a few months after my 8th birthday and we have never painted the house. There was talk of doing so around my 16th birthday, but it never happened. Monday painting finally commenced. Naturally on the hottest day of the weekend. It's will take some time to get acclimated with the new color, but it looks great.

 Me trying to stay in the shade.

Greek Food

I will admit I'm picky when it comes to Greek food. Symposium in Davis spoiled me. The food at the Greek Festival was delicious and I was quite pleased. It may have been cheaper to simply go and eat at Petra's, but it was a lovely experience. Plus...I have a soft spot for Greek Orthodox art.

Tomatoes

There are mountains of tomatoes on the bushes at KH's house. A few weekends ago I decided I would clean off some of the branches. I made a strong start Friday evening. But once it started to get dark I thought it best to save the rest for Saturday morning.

Saturday morning came, and I went out to the bushes, only to find a HUGE and rather frightful spider had spun a web across the front of the tomatoes. 

I didn't really need any more tomatoes, ever.

Roommate KC came home a week later and proposed the removal of the spider. She caught it in the pool net and pushed it down to the bottom of the pool, a good 9 or 10 feet. Said spider did not like it. You know a spider is big when it's at the bottom of a pool and still looks huge.

I still have not mustered any further interest in the tomato plants.