Contrast of life

The contrast of my life is between work and home. I am getting more and more stressed at work with the project I am working on and the completion date arriving within the next three weeks. There is a lot of records keeping and organization that I am not used to. Conversely I had a very relaxing weekend in Monterey not doing a bit of work (although I did think about it). Kevin and Lindsay Schenks parents recently acquired a house on 17mile drive and it is wonderful. Kevin, Lindsay, and Ethan met us down there on Friday for the weekend. We got there late, but in time for pizza and a few brewhaha’s (perfect timing if you ask me). In the morning we walked to the shore (only a hop skip and …jump not needed). The waves were huge and Kevin and I brought Ethan down to the water to check out the tide pools and smack giant pieces of kelp on the rocks (man stuff). The girls sat back on the rocks and marveled at our manliness (or made fun of us and wondered what wee were doing). In the afternoon we went to Point Lobos state park and went for a hike. It was perfect weather there with intermittent clouds and ~65F. We had a great dinner and dessert. Brenda must have liked the fresh baked apple pie because she literally ate ¼ of the pie and two scoops of ice cream(and this after chowing down on tri-tip). What a truly amazing woman I am married to.

The Refinery is not always a bad place to work. All the pollution in the Bay Area makes for some great sunrises.

Very nice picture at Point Lobos
Nicer picture? Brenda is a 35 and I am a 30 on the sleep number bed. You can see that I have mine set for 100. This is a feeble attempt to keep Brenda off of my side so I can get some sleep for once.

Nice morning walk
The view form the kitchen of the 17th tee and fairway is very nice.
Man...is that a cute kid... Ethan not Kevin
Doing Man stuff.
I think Ethan must have learned this from his mother? Just kidding Lindsay....Kevin told me to do it.

What does this look like to you. A contest will be held on the comment section. Most original answer gets

Lone Cypress
I am not drunk even though it might appear so.
Quite the pair.

Sunday instead of church our congregation decided to worship by serving others. We combined with another church to work at various service projects in the San Jose area. We worked on cleaning up garbage in the Guadalupe River. It was fun and we got to clean up a large section of the river. There are a large number of homeless camps down there that people use intermittently and some permanently. We met one guy who had a pretty sweet setup and he gave us a tour of the camps nearby and which ones were abandoned and needed cleaning up. You never know what you are going to find at the river, but you can be certain it is not good, sanitary, or reusable.