The LazyAssGeek’s

Andy & Biggi, in a display of suspect sanity, generously invited us to return to their home this summer, so we invaded last weekend.  Andy wasn’t able to join us until late on Thursday after a business trip but we drove up late Wednesday, arriving at 1:30am Thursday. We finally got to meet the new additions to the family – Scarlet & Filou! It being the middle of the night they were wound up and ready to go after Biggi set them free from the bedroom where she’d kept them while we were unloading.  They never really showed any fear of Sport and ensconced on the cat tree (where they generally sleep away the daylight hours) they obviously felt quite safe. By the next morning they didn’t even need that and ran around on the floor with Sport there the way they normally would.

After a short night’s sleep we took it fairly easy on Thursday, stocking up on groceries for the weekend, enjoying the gorgeous day on the newly-improved deck (great job on the underside of the roof Peter & Crystal!). The kids even ventured out onto the pond in the canoe, dragging Val along for the first trip. Sport quickly got over any fear he had of the water once he saw the kids out on the canoe and practically dove in, then trying to swim out to them.  He had a ball running in & out of the water. We finished up with a pizza party and some Rock Band and managed to be awake when Andy got home, though we weren’t awake long after that!

On Friday we headed into Kittery to take in the outlets and make the inevitable run out to Nubble Light so Val and the kids could see what it feels like when it’s not 20 below zero.  Biggi did a great job not falling asleep on her 30th visit of 2009 to that lighthouse.

As we were driving home the clouds ahead of the remnants of Tropical Storm Danny started to build and we decided to call an audible and swap our plans for a bonfire from Saturday to Friday. Andy had mowed the yard while we were gone and had built up the makings of the bonfire.  Biggi made a killer noodle salad with pieces of kielbasa chopped up to go along with potatoes baked in foil in the fire and sausages (brats, italian sausages and cheddarwursts) cooked on sticks over the fire. We loaded up the feast into trailer on the back of the mower and headed to water’s edge to enjoy, and enjoy we most certainly did. Melissa enjoyed the fire to a frightening degree!

We enjoyed the sausages and accompaniments by the fire and when it was dark enough we fired off the fireworks Andy & I had made a run for late in the day.  They were great, except the “big” finally box was set a little too close to the water and wound up sliding in before it was finished, so they didn’t all fire and the last couple were far closer to the ground than they were designed to be after firing FROM the water.  Regardless, they were great and we’ll do better next time! We finished up just in time to avoid the rain as Danny arrived right about the time we had everything unloaded and put away. We spent the rest of the evening jamming out to Rock Band, of course.

The rain pounded on the house all night and off and on through Saturday as well but since we had stocked up for the weekend on Thursday we didn’t have to leave the house.  It made for a great lazy day until it came time to make schnitzel.  Melissa got to help Biggi so now she knows how and we’re going to torture her into making it for us for sure! Biggi’s friend Marissa and her dog Rita joined us that evening, Marissa for dinner and Rock Band, Rita to torture Sport. Sport was very good around her and seemed to just want to play but Rita, a German Shepard, is VERY protective of Marissa and didn’t want him anywhere near her.

After a short morning with coffee and making our requisite guest book entries we loaded up Joe’s Acadia and piled in for the trip home.  We saw TONS of Vettes when we got to I-84 down in Connecticut and again on I-78 in PA. They were all on the way home from the annual Corvettes at Carlisle event, which I have yet to make it to. It quickly reached the point that it wasn’t worth calling them out as they went by, there were just too many.  Other than some traffic on the Mass Turnpike we had a fairly uneventful but safe trip home so the recovery from another awesome weekend in NH could begin.

Thank you again to our fabulous friends Andy & Biggi.  You guys blow us away every time we visit with how welcome and at home we are made to feel there, even though we invade with 3 teens and a dog!  Unfortunately for you that just means you’ll see us again soon.

All of the pics we posted from the weekend can be found by clicking here.