One of the best features of our house is the back porch. Tig and I try to eat breakfast and dinner as much as we can outside. Today, I washed down our vinyl siding on the back porch with water - it was pretty grimy, with occasional little black dots of mildew that needed to be scrubbed out. The vinyl looks brand new now. Only on our back porch, though.
Tig strung up some globe lights that we had bought two years ago. I cooked up a meal of pasta and poured a glass of wine. Dining al fresco is the best treat between work sessions.

dining al fresco

On a happy side note, after we had dinner, our next door neighbor invited us over to their daughter’s 22nd birthday celebration BBQ. “I remember when I turned 22,” I mused, “That year I met my husband.”

“How old are you,” my neighbor asked, “You look 22.”