Gardens grow nicely with sun and thunderstorms and some more sun. Even if I forget to water them. Fig tree is viciously leafing all over the place and its neighbor the pumpkin (that I hosed off the concrete patio) is occupying an area greater than my living room. Beautyberry has flowers and soon berries. One tomato progressing so far. And lawn is staying dry so not a lot of growth there.
And speaking of growth, had a nice "company" meeting (that is in quotes because the company is four of us at the moment) where they laid out budgets and plans for us. Wife will be at least part time through 2012, making more than she has in several years. This might move to full time which would make her salary close to what I made as a teacher. I am under contract through the end of the month, but got a huge thumbs up from the CEO who said I was saving him lots of work, and today the COO told me I had done a super job on the 40 page Phase 2 proposal. Hooray for unasked for praise. If some of these jobs are awarded, I will go full time through 2012 as well (giving 18 months to land even more business) at a decent salary. With both of us working full time we would bring home more than I did during my best year in NYC.
Father's Day, actually the day before, we went to a "safari" park about an hour away. Huge tracts of land with free roaming emus, ostriches, buffalo, gnus, llamas, deer and antelope, horses and donkeys. For a fee you get tubs of feed and the animals will come right up and sometimes even stick their heads in the window. Daughter got to hold a baby kangaroo and feed carrots to a giraffe. We found shed peacock tail feathers (bonus!) and had a generally fun day, especially since the storms held off, although the tornado siren test at noon spooked us a bit, as lightning was illuminating the horizon.
My car is in the shop, should be released in 2 weeks in time for inspection. Fun.
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