i just want to enjoy the sunshine

my house is the place where phone service goes to die, i think. we tried all of the jacks in the house last night (which is a lot - at least one in almost every room), and alas, none of them picked up a line, so we get to pay qwest $85 to come fix the problem. hoorah! they're coming this afternoon, and i really really hope it's an easy fix.

i'm debating what to do tonight, still. scott's going off to a fantasy football draft party with the guys. the guy who's hosting it's wife is inviting the wives over to hang out and play games ... but i'd already told myself i would stay home and start stripping caulk in the main bath. i'm torn, though, because it would be fun to hang out, but it could also be nice to hang out by myself at home - and more productive, for sure. but there's not really so much of a time crunch on doing the caulking that not starting tonight would throw our timeline completely off ... we'll see. i meant to do the caulking before my parents got here in june (sorry, guys), so my next goal is to have it done before scott's parents get here a few days before labor day weekend. which is less than two weeks away, now. crazy - where did this summer go?!

i'm also going berry picking with the girls bright and early tomorrow morning. as in, meeting at 7:30 to leave early. it should be fun, though. berry picking and browsing around the farm's organic farmer's market is totally one of my favorite parts of summer. they put together bags of fresh produce with a recipes - like a bagged kit for pasta sauce, or salsa, or tomatillo salsa. i got the bag for tomatillo salsa last year, and it was amazing - i really hope they have it again this weekend. it made a ton of salsa, though, to the extent where after two weeks we made nachos for dinner solely because we wanted to get rid of the tomatillo salsa before it went bad.

i think one of my favorite things about denver is its great mix of midwestern and west coast life. you get casual clothes and lots of sun, fun things like tomatillos which i never knew existed before we moved out here, but still have comfortable oaks and maples and pines in the backyard rather than exotic palm trees.