Great weekend!

Jenny and I had a great weekend.  Friday night, we hosted a dinner party for some members of a prayer group we belong to at our parish.  I made our taco bake thing in meatless and meatful varieties, “tex-mex” potatoes, and southwestern corn.  People brought drinks, fruit, and dessert, and we all had a good time.  Jenny and I were especially happy to have people over to the house and to be able to show people what we’ve been working on for so many months.  I also like to cook for people, so that was fun, too.  We had to spend a few evenings during the week cleaning and getting things ready, but everything went well.  By the time we were headed to bed early the next morning, I had the dishwasher loaded and set to run while we slept, and the house was basically cleaned-up again. 

Saturday morning, Jenny and I took a little drive to the North Hills for a small shopping trip and lunch.  I purchased a set of used carving tools earlier, and they had arrived at our porch on Friday afternoon.  I wanted to get a mallet and some items to help me sharpen them, and some finish for a project, so we first stopped at Rockler to get those items.  Then we had lunch at Chilis, and went to Borders to pick up some music and a few magazines.  When we were done there, we took the long way home to enjoy the day and the early spring scenery.  It was a good time. 

Back at home, I went down to the shop to try out my new carving tools and make a dorky little thing for Jenny with them.  After a few hours of that, I came upstairs.  Jenny and I had some left-overs for dinner, then decided that we’d go to see a movie.  We both wanted to see Leatherheads.  We had just missed the last showing at the Oaks in Oakmont, though, which was our preferred stop.  We had to take our second choice and head to the Pittsburgh Mills theater instead.  It was a funny movie, though, and we both enjoyed a good day full of togetherness activities. 

Sunday, we went to Mass, then enjoyed lunch of beef stew with dumplings (and meatballs for those who don’t eat beef stew) at my parents’ house.  We came home then and relaxed for the rest of the day.  I took care of some minor yard and outside stuff, then worked on some more carving for an on-going project in the shop.  We ordered a pizza later that evening, and caught Ace of Cakes on FoodTV before hitting the sack. 

It was a really good weekend.  This coming weekend is going to be a really busy weekend, so we were glad to have this one be mostly calm.  🙂 

jonathan