Spencer Elliot

This week I had an extra day off and we loaded up and took our grandson to the aquarium in Chattanooga. We have been there before and it is a trip that the whole family loves and best of all it is only a two hour drive and that is a major plus at least it is for me. I drive 10 hours a day for work and driving 4-5 hours for a road trip is not in my plans at all. We had a lot of fun and even with one butt head attack David had a lot of fun too. I look forward to our next trip this summer.

We will be going to the lake for the Independence Day holiday this year and I can not wait. It will be the first time that my grandson David gets to test out his swimming ability, we made sure that he had swimming lessons from the YMCA after school was out this year so he would be ready to go on this trip with us. I feel that it is very important for a small child to be able to swim in case he falls in the lake. A safe trip is the main goal for this and any other trip we go on with David.

Tonight my wife out did herself, she made homemade meatballs and man did they ever taste good. I know she used ground beef and pork because I bought it at the store this afternoon, but I have no idea what else she puts in her meatballs, it must be a deep dark family secret because she is not letting the cat out of the bag at all. I know I am one very lucky man, she is the best cook in the world and she loves me what else could I ask for?

Finally got to spend a weekend on the lake and man did we have a good time. Of course it rained on us and we got to see some beautiful lightning and the bugs were very hungry, but we had fun and that is all that matters, this week it looks like it might rain out the trip to the lake but we will hold our breath and hope for some sunshine this weekend too. The boat ran very nice after sitting all winter and that was a plus I figured I would spend all weekend fixing the boat but it went well and it bodes well for the summer ahead.

The month of June has just started and it is already hot, reaching to over 90 the last two days. I hate to think how hot it will be when the hot months of July and August get here. The bad part about summer here in Nashville is the humidity and that is already very high and miserable. when you get to 90 degrees and have 90% humidity you can cut the air with a knife. I can hardly wait for that to get here, I hope you caught the sarcasm there. The hot sticky days are my only gripe about the weather this week, join me next week I will of thought of something else to gripe about by then.