Good times, good food, good friends, good life....

Labor Day weekend was busy for us. Work at work, work at home, socialize at work, socialize at home. Yep-- life is rough! At least it's an even balance. It's always a good time when you can work and enjoy your client's company with a cold one. Friday, Karen P. was over for a shoot, Matt & Heather stopped by to share their great news about expanding their Schooner Exact Brewing Company http://schoonerexact.typepad.com/. Teri & Mickie stopped by to pick up the donations from our GNO http://gno-dgd.blogspot.com/ for the Treehouse for Kids organization. After the work day was done, we headed home to host a small dinner party for Gene, Brighty and Manny. Earl made an awesome dinner of course.

Saturday and Sunday was farm work. Starting to get things ready for the rainy season. My buddy Kevin came over and rode Fancy and gave me a riding lesson. Apparently my mare is so fat in the belly, he thought she was ready to foal. Just another fatty on the farm! No one goes hungry around our house.

On Monday, Earl made an awesome Spanish feast to share with a few friends. Dennis, Laura, Casandra, Lisa, Wylie, Matt & Jenna (from the Corson Building http://www.thecorsonbuilding.com/) all came over for a farm tour and a feast. Moses & Chae (Wylie & Matt's dogs) came along and ran around the farm with our crazy canines. Earl made tortilla de patata, grilled linguica, fried smelt, tuna stew, paella, spanish olives and we had a boat load of great wines that complimented every course! I think we finally wrapped up dinner around midnight or so. Dennis & Earl tried to solve the world's problems until 4am. Tuesday morning came early and I had to jump start into clean up mode since my Dad, Step-mom and Uncle were arriving later that day for a week long visit from Georgia.

We took them over to Leavonworth yesterday. What a beautiful time of year to go. It was warm and the flower baskets lined the streets. Not too crowded and we drank great beer. Today they are visiting Pike Place Market and doing touristy junk. Tonight we are going to our friend, Scott Fuller's, gallery opening at Evo. Planning on meeting a bunch of friends at the studio or there to enjoy his larger than life art work. Check him out... http://www.diekotomy.com/. Great stuff.

Tomorrow is another dinner at the farm with the fam. Sunday morning we are watching our friend Jennifer Block do a sprint triathlon in Federal Way. Just one of her training stints for the big Kona Ironman in October! Yep, that's right she qualified for one of the hardest races known to man. And she's raising awareness for Niemann-Picks Disease too. Check it out to help her out... http://www.race4ty.com/. Great things come from great people.

We just wrapped up the Raleigh & Diamondback catalogs just in time for the big Euro trade show. The BDA work is getting final touches and we are taking care of wrapping up a few other projects. Earl's looking at his schedule to plan bird hunting trips and his next business trip to China. It's going to be a busy Fall.