Labor Day Work Weekend

I woke up at noon on Saturday and realized that...duh...it was Labor Day weekend. I talked to Sabrina on the phone and had just settled into the idea of no one showing up for the work weekend, when people began arriving. First Broman and Aaron from outside of Roanoke. Then Katie and Melrod and Ben. Then David and Elijah. Then Sabrina and Boo. Then Evan and Victoria!
Despite the good turn out, the weather jinxed us and the afternoon was...soggy. Evan and Katie cooked dinner in the rain, while I cleaned the house and other cleaned up the farm.
It was a good time, with a ton of sweet dogs. Bird showed up that evening and we all chilled in the newly finished living room - which is finally clean and roomy and comfortable.
It was a really great evening with friends, and slowly, bellies full and hearts warm, we all petered off to bed.
When we woke up Sunday morning Bird was already weed whacking, and everyone else was cleanin3g up and working. Breakfast had been cooked! It was fantastic! I set Katie and Victoria on painting signs while I cleaned the sitting room upstairs.
It was a productive day of clean up and conversation. Everyone went their separate ways, and Broman, Aaron, Boo, Sabrina, Seth and I sat down in the newly cleansed sitting room to watch "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs!"
After everyone left, Billy and our neighbor across the way and his girlfriend stopped by. They're going to help us out with some electrical work for Pink Moon.
Finally Seth and I got to sit down and relax. It wasn't long after that we shuffled off to bed.
Labor Day itself was rainy and lazy. Not much business work could be done and I spent most of the day playing Portal 2 and smoking cigarettes. In the evening we answered some questions about Pink Moon for 16 Blocks magazine...the story should come out Sept. 9th! We headed to bed early, because Seth began his job teaching Algebra I at James Monroe High School this morning.
In fact he woke up before five to get ready, showered, shaved, fed and out the door for school this morning. I woke up around 7am, right before he left, to help him pack up his lunch and wish him good luck. I spent the day tying up various Pink Moon loose ends, and promoting on the Facebook! We lost power (helluva rainstorm) for about four hours at 12:30pm.
It was still out when Seth got home at 3:30pm. We took a nap...then Sethro made BLTs for dinner while I banged out some business stuff.
Now, Seth's nursing the fire, the kittens are playing, and were watching the Jeopardy: Teacher's Tournament. It's chilly, but Seth just got the fire going. The house is clean, Seth has a respectable day job (he will have to work from 7am-4pm the Thursday and Friday of Pink Moon), we're well rested and well fed. Only 9 days until Pink Moon....
"Pink Moon is on it's way" - Nick Drake