Cool summer mornings

I love the freshness of an early summer morning...even if it is a Sunday and I should be sleeping in. Just me and Speedo up and hanging out...really all he wants is for me to feed him his breakfast!
This week was supposedly a short week but it felt like a normal week. So much happening at work but soon the dust will settle with everyone in place and we shall see how it all works out. We had a farewell party for big boss Jill on Friday night at Sharon's house with a giant chinese food buffet. Darcy kindly picked up all the food for us from the Lougheed Wonton on St. Johns. The food is pretty good...we had to meet Karen's criteria that it not be Mat Salleh food!! For her benefit I made authentic lamb curry with the last of the curry powder that mum and dad sent with May. She drooled over the kambing kari...as did Andre and wanted to keep the leftovers but Sharon scooped it up, packed away in her fridge and that was that. I made a quiz to play with prizes from the loonie store...and then we all recited a stanza entitled "Thirty Years at Dogwood" written by Judy's husband Mike. It is a wonderful tribute with some very funny parts but mostly touching...so we will present this at her official farewell tea on July 27 where all the members have been invited to attend. We will probably need a many boxes of kleenex. She has been such an incredible boss, friend and mentor...this is a huge well-deserved promotion for her so we all wish her the very best!
I went to support Darcy at his regional meeting on Wednesday night at the McGee Room...with neither of the girls swimming or coaching, I am helping him put since he is volunteering his service I would do with alongside. We spent the weekend at the Golden Spike Meet and he has the Simon Fraser Regional Meet to organize for the August long weekend. Guess we will be spending our anniversary on Aug 3 at the pool. Summer swimming seems to be undergoing some pain at the moment...attitudes seem to be very negative with very club presidents frustrated at the lack of commitment from parents but mostly as Barry Parish put it the lack of hype from the coaches encouraging all swimmers to aim for the regional meet as the highlight of their swimmer as they set their sight for the Provincial Championships. No doubt that Prince George could be a deterrent but everyone can attend regionals and then scratch from attending provincials allowing alternates to go instead. It has been an interesting season for most of the clubs, I think only the Mantas and the Marlins have escaped soap opera-like drama in their camps.
Last night, it was nice to have a family evening with Chrissy. She was home from work at 5pm so we went for fish and chips, then to Wal-Mart to get the prescription for her numerous mosquito bites that have turn into welts (seems she is allergic to these bites?) She drove us in her car. We decided to go see Shrek in the fancy theatre in Pitt Meadows but it was already gone from the big screen so we drove on to the Mission cineplex where tickets are quite a bit cheaper and saw Evan Almighty instead plus Darcy filled up her car for a $1 a litre...best deal ever for gas at the moment. She was happy that he did that....gas for her car is the best present anyone can give her nowadays.
So that was our week...we may pop over the line to Bellingham today because Speedo is out of his special beef dog food so we shall see.