Today we held the first Beer Can Regatta of the year, and had a great turnout – Spike, Voodoo, Dancer, Prelude, Camelot and Caribbean Hug. Monte and I each jumped on one of the Catalina 30’s. Robert finished first and took home a bottle of Buckeye Vodka. So smoooooth! After the race a party ensued. More on that later.
We had a fantastic shower put in when we remodeled the house 2 years ago. We love it. It has natural tumbled travertine stone on the outside. But on the inside, I picked a matching ceramic tile. I did this as a last minute change, on the advice of a friend, because she’s had both and said the ceramic tile would be so much easier to maintain than the travertine on the inside where the surfaces would be wet.
I am SOOO glad I did that. But I have to say, it’s no small task to keep the grout clean. I’ve fallen in love with bleach gel pens… the gel sticks to the surfaces and every now and then I just put that in the grout for a little while and scrub and rinse it away.
However, one bleach pen doesn’t go very far in this shower, holding only a couple of ounces of bleach gel. So…. I decided to try make my own. Here’s what I ended up with. I tried this in a small batch, and it seemed to work ok. I’ve heard you want to use this infrequently, though, it can be tough on the grout.
Homemade Bleach Paste
– 1 part bleach
– 5 parts baking soda
– 2 parts water
Tonight was a good night. We celebrated Laura’s birthday by going out for a girlfriends dinner @ Uchiko. The food was fantastic. Edamame, sushi, sashimi, boquerones, vino … everything was delicious.
I’ll leave you with this: “A True Friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
Peace out 🙂
I had a doctor’s appointment this afternoon which took me downtown. Since I was in the neighborhood, I just had to stop by the Sno-Beach snocone stand. If you’ve never had one, you must. It will change your life. If you don’t live in Austin, fly or drive down here as soon as you can and get one. They make the absolutely, hands-down, indubitably BEST snocones on the planet. If any of you are skeptical, I’d even put money on it. And I NEVER make a bet unless I’m sure I’m right (even when i’m wrong) 😀
Even though there were about 30 people in front of me when I got there, and when I left I was in the middle of rush hour traffic on Mopac, it was worth it.
I’d like to work on ways to transform my blog into something more interesting for other people to follow. Up til now I’ve mostly been doing this for my own enjoyment. The Daily Post is hosting a Post-a-Day-2011 and Post-a-Week-2011 challenge, an online community really, for bloggers to share their posts and inspire eachother. It started at the beginning of the year, but I’m joining mid-way (or in work-speak, at the end of 2Q 🙂 ). I recently completed my own 365-project (a year of posting one photo taken of a moment from each day) but I have been and will continue to post here. So, in search of inspiration, today I signed up for the once a week version, check it out:
Oh, wait, one more thing! Here is a link to a video that my friend Teri took of us on Cupholder last weekend as we were all headed up to Cypress Creek Cove for the raftup. (we’re the little boat in the distance that Teri and Jim are catching up with quickly). It was WINDY… and we had 2 reefs in, so only a tiny bit of sail up, but we were MOVIN’! It’s good to be back…
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