Jay had an early golf game yesterday.  He went to a 5 o'clock mass the night before because if you skip mass to play golf, you tend to shank.  Everyone knows that.  He played very well, so it was a good kick off for the Father's Day festivities. 

Early in the afternoon, we had another graduation open house to go to; family, so the crowd was loud, funny and fun.  The food was ridiculously good.  What they didn't make themselves they had catered by one of our neighborhood treasures; Kwan's.

Kwan's is the hole in the wall Chinese place that all of the kids in Zack's civics class agreed is what they would want as a last meal, should they be on death row.  High praise, indeed!

It was 93 degrees in the shade yesterday and unfortunately, there was no shade at the party, so it didn't last as long as it might have.  Heck, we'd still be there today if it had been cooler out.

We came home mid afternoon and lapsed into comas to prepare for the rest of the day.  Actually, the kids passed out, I used the unexpected free time to remove the shower curtain from our bathroom, throw it in the laundry, replace the liner (they make great drop cloths), which I laid out on the deck to dry out, had Zack rearrange part of the basement and help me move the new book case down there.

I bought another bookcase (there's no such thing as too many bookcases) at my neighbor's garage sale over two weeks ago.  It's long and low and exactly the right length for my basement.  The day we bought it, I asked Zack to bring it downstairs and he immediately grabbed on end and pulled it off.  It's been sitting on the deck since then, waiting for me to get some new screws to reattach the end.  I did that on Friday.  So, we brought the shelf downstairs and I gave the piles of books sitting in the tv room a new home. 

I also made peanut butter rice crispy bars and brownies to bring to the next party.  Before I could even frost the crispy bars, Zack ate a row; he thought the brownies were for the party and the bars were for us.  He was wrong, but it's no biggie.  There were still enough to go around and good thing; with this crowd dessert is very important.  You could feed them tenderloin and sweetcorn but without at least a cookie afterward, they'd feel cheated.  That's my side of the family, for you.

We got over to my sister's house around 4:30.  We began drinking margaritas around 4:30:02.  Darn near the whole family was there and as usual, it was loud, funny and fun.  Years ago, Zack said that the Hubbell and Pivec sides of the family were practically identical, only the Pivec's all smoke and have tattoos.  That's pretty much it in a nutshell.  

The party was really fun, it included tiny kids trying to play basketball, a two year old learning to ride a trike backwards and lots of kids making diving football catches into the inflatable pool.  Unfortunately, we had to leave fairly early, as Josie started a camp at nine o'clock this morning.  

Today is Jay's birthday.  He requested blueberry coffeecake instead of his usual cake request; white cake with burnt almond frosting.  I made the coffeecake this morning but we haven't eaten it yet.  Jay had to work tonight so we had no birthday dinner.  He did ask us to save him a piece of cake. 

It was rainy this afternoon, so he and I went and saw Pirates of the Caribbean.  We both loved it.

Now it's about as gorgeous a June evening as I've ever seen.  All the rain clouds have vanished over the horizon, the sun is sinking towards the smokestack on the school, the sky is turning pink, there's a slight breeze, no humidity and it's seventy five degrees.  And I've got a piece of blueberry coffeecake. 

Heaven's got nothin on this.

 

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