Posted

Jul 16th 2009

Mood

Cheerful

Well, my friends, I've come back from Suzy's house. I went back to Hillsborough with my parents, then I'll go back to my place in San Francisco tomorrow.
Anyway, it was nice being at Suzy's. Mind you, it wasn't all rest and relaxation. My dad was putting in new shelves in the closets and a new garage door opener in the garage. So I was helping out there. The toughest thing was the garage door opener. When we tried to install that, we found it was too long and it went up against a beam on the ceiling. So Dad took it apart to shorten the long part. Then when we tried to put it back together, we had a problem with one little part. We had to push a spring down on a bolt, and keep it in place with a little kind of nut. That was too difficult for us! We finally gave up and put the old garage door opener back up.
As for Simon, we had a nice dinner on his proper birthday on Monday. Brian brought in a load of barbecue from a great New York-style place called Ribs On the Run. (Funny, I never associated New York City with barbecue!) Anyway, Suzy baked a birthday cake for Simon: a yellow cake with chocolate frosting and decorated with M&Ms. Simon got plenty of presents. A lot of them were Thomas the Tank Engine items. (He loves that show!) Mom gave him a few Thomas toy trains. I gave him a set of nesting and stacking alphabet blocks.
Anyway, I didn't really want to leave, but it's good to be back. Suzy will be having her second baby in September. Mom and Dad will be at the house for when the baby comes, and Brian said I was welcome to be there as well. If I'm free at that time, I'll be there!