It been a good summer so far...

Well, it has been the better part if a year since my last blog. I must say that I have been failing to make it a priority. I'll start by saying that I recently have been convinced that we had been saying that we were REALLY busy a lot...maybe too much. Every time someone asked how we were, we would reply, "Busy". We have started to try not to say that. And I think it has been helping us be more productive. We try to no longer let ourselves have that excuse because we do have unproductive things that take up our time and if we feel busy, we cut some of that out and all of the sudden we have time to hang out with friends or help someone out.....or clean our apartment. Lol.

There have been several things we have been doing this summer:

1. Trying our hand at making our own pizza and wings. Buffalo wings are quite the thing up here in buffalo and we have come to enjoy them quite a lot. We have had several friends over and they seem to think that our pizza is quite good. And our wings. I grill the wings on the charcoal grill and then put the sauce on them. We got all the recipes from the Internet and we think they are great.

2. I have been riding my motorcycle MUCH more this summer as compared to last summer. Last month, I rode it 20ish days. Over the last two weeks, I think I rode it 9 work days. I actually noticed that the rear tire is wore out. I need to get it replaced before the end of the summer. Probably before the end of the month. It has been averaging a solid 40 mpg.

3. This morning we had the first rain since probably 4 weeks ago. The grass has gotten quite crispy almost everywhere. Last week it reached 95 one day and one of the major freeways around buffalo buckled in one place because it expanded so much in the heat. The heat was more than we are used to. All of the lowes and sears stores were sold out of air conditioners. We have managed to survive without one so far.

4. We have been able to hang out with a lot of people from church and we have also been able to get to know some of our neighbors better too. It is nice in the summer weather because it's easier to go places and hang out. We can stay outside too. We have been riding our bicycles more too. Melissa, of course has been riding hers the .75 miles to work most days. If friends of ours want to meet for ice cream, we just ride over to the ice cream shop. We can even ride over to a couple of our friends' houses too.

5. This weekend, we got invited to go with a friend, Jeffrey, to Buffalo for a schooner ride. It was a first for both of us, and it was really fun. We ate at the Anchor Bar afterwords. It is famous for being the originator of the buffalo wing. They had good wings. And the other food we had was great too. After that, we ended going up to Niagra falls too, another first for me. :)

So, I guess that's all for now.....