Busy end

I am having a hard time remembering much about the weekend except the last part of it.  I guess that’s because there wasn’t anything all that exciting going on.  On Saturday we got to do a full survey of the damage from the frost.  It was more extensive than we first thought. 

Initially Ali thought just the Noni tree in the orchard and the one poinsettia took a beating.  Some of the stuff did not immediately wilt from the frost.  However a couple days later it was obvious that more plants were damaged.  The banana trees all were destroyed.  I cut them down to the ground.  They will grow back but the next time it gets cold they will simply die again.  Other landscape items that took damage were the areca palms, crown of thorns, elephant ear, and most of the plants in the butterfly garden.  In the garden the corn got wrecked, as well as the pepper plant with some damage also taken by the squash and tomatoes.  Hell the frost even instantly killed a bunch of the grass. Cold weather in South Florida just is never a good thing.

I spent a lot of the weekend just f’ing off between playing WoW and Field Runner, the addictive game for the IPhone.  Ali said that for some reason she is much more annoyed by me playing the Iphone game than WoW.  My WoW resurgence has to do with a bunch of the guys I used to play with getting back into the game now that the expansion came out.  It’s been great being back among familiar names.  It makes the game much more social than it has been for a long time.

Sunday afternoon my mom came over.  She was nice enough to watch Nicki for us while we go to the Eagles concert on the east coast tonight.  Shortly after she got there a guy we know from the running club came over.  He is going to help us out with data entry at the race next Saturday and we needed to give him some hands on training before the event.  His name just happens to be Sean as well.  Sean is a real nice laid back guy who is close to my age.   Not only do we share a name (in sound at least), we also share some other similarities as we both have been divorced once and neither of us have kids. 

Sean brought over his big lovable dog named Tundra.  Tundra made his mark on the house right away as I watched him go over and take a leak on the storage box by the pool.  Of course this instantly caused me panic when Tundra moved inside the house and disappeared around the corner.  I had visions of him systematically “marking” each and every room of the house.  I went inside and tried to calmly bring him back out to the pool deck with us where I could monitor his activities.  I don’t think he did anything inside. 

Surprisingly Nicki had very few issues with Tundra being there.  In fact she almost immediately tried to engage him in play.  Having my dad’s dogs around must have opened her up a bit.  Tundra wasn’t all that into running around since he is 11+ years old and has hip dysplasia but he engaged her a bit.  It was cute. 

Sean joined Ali, my Mom and I for dinner as well. Sean is the type of person I typically get a long well with, a good talker.  Since I am typically such a rotten conversationalist, someone that loves to talk takes a lot of stress off of me.   We got to learn a lot about him.  During our long dinner conversation mom finished up and got up from the table.  I think she felt somewhat like a third wheel since a lot of the conversation had to do with various people in the running club.  When I got up from the table I saw that she had already went back to bed.  I was worried that her feelings were hurt or something.  I poked my head in twice to see if she was awake but she apparently crashed.

After dinner and desert brownies, Sean took me on in a bit of Wii Sports.  He has a Wii at home himself.  I handled him in tennis although some of the matches were real close.  We wrapped it up with a best two out of three boxing match.  We split the first two games and then in the third match he dominated me, finishing off the fight in spectacular fashion with a crushing over head right that smashed me to the ground.   He headed out around 10.  We had a good time with him and Tundra.  Hopefully we get together more often.

So tonight we head over to the east coast for an Eagles concert, Ali’s big xmas gift. Ali loves the Eagles.  This will be my third concert I have attended in my life. The first one was White Snake in my early 20’s and then Don Henley with Ali maybe 5 or 6 years ago down here.  The concert starts at 8, ends somewhere around 10.   I took tomorrow off in anticipation of getting home hella-late.  I was up till after 11 last night, probably not a great idea with the long day ahead of me.