August!

This is what happens when you work all but two days in a month. I know, most of you work every day in a month. How do you do it? I've enjoyed every day. One of the assignments was with a super guy. He's a VP and a retired Lieutenant General, fought in the Viet Nam war. We had a great discussion about that, as you can imagine. We were the opposite on every issue, but we got along famously. The rest of the time was with my regular Senior VP who has a doctorate in Electrical Engineering. I get along with those kind of guys too. He is a lot like Eric in his general demeanor. But he talks a lot more, in meetings and on the phone. We don't talk that much to each other. Who knows what he did when we were both young. I know that now he dyes his hair, marries a lot and is easy to work for. I guess that's enough.

The garden has been riotous. These are the dahlias that Cindy picked up at the farmer's market. They took forever to bloom. That honking big flower on the bottom of this picture was a bud for weeks. Who knows what inspired it to pop out. But now it has a lot of friends on that very sturdy bush.

So much to write about. But I was telling Cindy that I thought I'd try to write something every day instead of once a month. You will have to wait to read about how to mend a broken heart, about visitors from California and the hundreds of books I've been reading. I don't go back to work until August 14. I'm pretty sure I have 12 more thoughts to catch up on.