Happy Summer Solstice! The weather on this first day of summer was beautiful - sunny, but not too sunny, nor too hot.
We had planned on going to the Fremont Fair to celebrate with the kids. Unfortunately, the guy that was scheduled to come over to template our new countertops (for the kitchen remodel we're in the midst of) didn't arrive until about 11am.
Regardless, we did have a nice day with the kids. Porter and Fallon were given Transformers walkie-talkies by our neighbors across the street. They ran around much of the day trying to figure out how to make them work. One of them would go hide in the bedroom, while the other would hang out in the living room. They haven't quite gotten the hang of holding down and releasing the button in order to have a conversation, but since they were only about fifteen feet away from each other they could hear what they were saying anyway.
They pretended that an animal was in danger (inspired by Wonder Pets, undoubtedly) and would run off to rescue it. Then the play session would devolve into placing the walkie-talkies real close to each other so that they could experiment with the feedback - something mommy thoroughly enjoyed listening to as the tried to focus on her touch-painting in the living room. :-)
I spent some time working on cutting in and adding a new outlet inside one of the lower cabinets where we've placed our microwave. I was worried I end up having to rip out a bunch of dry wall, but fortunately I was able to just branch off of a nearby outlet and drop a foot or so of wire down through the wall to the spot I'd cut out for the new receptacle. It doesn't exactly look pretty, but nobody will see it.
That was about it for our solstice celebration. I'm upstairs relaxing and Toni's down stairs in the living room, probably doing some reading. We have the windows open, and the night air is slowing bringing the houses temperature down.
I'll probably head down stairs in a few minutes and put on a movie or something.
...hope everyone else had a good solstice! Good night.