We wrapped up October by doing what everyone should do around Halloween — carve pumpkins! We had a lot of trick-or-treaters and were cleaned out after an hour or so. November brought more visitors to Case de Wiktor. Kathy arrived for a week long visit to celebrate her and Carolyn’s birthday month. During her visit…
Full House
The house was bursting at the seems as visitors from across the globe (or at least some visitors that have been around the globe) flew in for a few days. Mike and Heather decided to make San Diego the last stop on their 10 month, global adventure; Rick also flew in on Friday from Breckenridge…
And on the 158th day there was GRASS!
BOOM! The green stuff is finally here. After a little more sweat the backyard is now green! The final push in the fight for green was truly a joint effort on the part of all of the San Diego Wiktors (Phil, Meredith, and Carolyn) as well as Trey, a good friend of Phil’s. The rest…
Minnesota and monkeys
It’s not every day that you can say you saw wild monkeys in Minnesota! While we kinda cheated (went to the zoo), Mere and I were able to make that claim during our last trip back home. Yes, I know the picture is of an orangutan but we did see monkeys too. Our whirlwind trip…
Goodbye Summer
Well, you wouldn’t know from the heat wave we had here the last week (it was 105!!!) but summer is officially over. Luckily, we live in Southern California so that doesn’t mean much to us. Words like snow and windchill don’t work their way into our vocabulary with the changing of the season. Before we…
Fighting the backyard… again…
So the day when I sit back and just water and mow is quickly approaching. A few big hurdles were cleared over the past two weekends. Last weekend I finally got rid of the old grass! I went to Home Depot to get a sod cutter but after a conversation with Rick in the rental…
A family day
Usually work stuff stays off the blotter but since it was a family event and all… The Squadron had a family day on Saturday complete with fast roping, rockets, guns, cotton candy, and a “jumpy” as they’re called out here. Mere snagged a few pictures of me flying during the event and Carolyn got to…
Retreat to Seattle
While Phil was “playing” in the desert the last few weeks, I planned a trip to Seattle with two of my oldest and dearest high school friends. Nicole lives in Seattle so we took advantage of the opportunity to visit her and the awesome destination and Lauren flew from the booming metropolis of Sioux Falls….
And break…
With all the work around the house plus traveling, flight planning and studying we hadn’t had much down time lately. Last weekend we took a break from the to do list and didn’t lift a finger around the house. We slept in, cooked, shopped, soaked up some sun on the beach and shared a beer…