As My Lawn Lays Dying

Being the solid citizen I am, I had to pull the plug on the sprinkler system.  Now my lawn has about the same chances of survival as the Trump presidential campaign.

We just got back from a week’s vacation on the East Coast.  We began with a festive dinner with The Wigs at Jaleo in DC.  We had muchas tapas and probably could have had more.  Mrs. Wig pointed out, rightly so, that there was a lack of detail on my last post regarding our Costa Rica trip.  That is why I’m making sure I document this last trip while the memories are relatively fresh.

After dinner we luxuriated in the lobby of The Wig’s hotel, right across the street.  We then went out for cocktails.  We checked into the upstairs bar at Daikaya, characterized as casual and funky by Google reviews.  Since I am neither, and there was no table space, we went next door to Graffiato for artisanal cocktails and craft beers.  We were joined by SB1’s roommates and friends, good kids all.

Sunday we went shopping at Target for the boy, a favorite activity.  We got to walk all the items back about three blocks to his apartment, but my offspring did the heavy lifting.  We took all his roomies out to a taco lunch as well.  That evening we took #1’s kid and his girlfriend out to dinner at The Pig.  I take the kids out for meals because that’s the kind of guy I am.  Surprisingly, The Pig features a pork heavy menu. We got some pics of the boys chowing down on their shared meal that could have fed a village.  I brought up the Venmo app just to bust #1’s kid’s chops.  They gotta pay one way or another.

Monday brought us up to the NJ shore, where I spent many a summer with my family.  My body surfing skills have deteriorated since then.  My brother-in-law has a great place at Stone Harbor and I’m sure he enjoyed us swarming all over it as he tried to have a relaxing vacation with his own family.

The whole crew enjoyed many meals and we always had a cocktail hour.  One night was margarita night.  I fixed those, which matched perfectly with the lasagna my daughter made.  All other cocktail hours were overseen by the martini master, aka my brother-in-law.  My mother-in-law was with us as well so it was an outstanding family event in which we all got along famously.

By now we’ve scattered to the winds.  The adults are back at work and the kids will be heading back to school.  My oldest niece is off to Copenhagen for a semester and SB1 has kicked off his grad program in DC.  The girl has moved back in with us as of this week.  Give her a call and see how it’s going for her.

Switching gears, there’s been quite a lot of divorce activity in the celebrity world.   Stefani, Affleck etc.  These things don’t seem to work out forever.  Completing the celeb circle of life, Jennifer Anniston had a secret wedding with a select group of dear friends.  It was lovely.

I’ll close with a Geno Smith joke I heard today.

Geno threw the first punch but it fell five yards short.