Beautiful day yesterday, good day at work. M. and I on same page re future employee benefits. CARE's leave policy is 20 days a year! They also allow you to take paid sick leave whenever you are sick. hmm. I didn't think that would work, because it seems like it would encourage abuse, but maybe it encourages honesty...I certainly like people staying home when they are sick and not calling in when they feel like they have to use all their sick leave. Did payroll, finished the reimbursement requests, bought stamps, worked on P&P. I also opened an IRA at the credit union. The CD gets 3% interest! and lowers the amount of taxes we have to pay.

Spent some time in the yard, planting things and checking everything out. We are going to have about 100 strawberries already! We froze a cup of asparagus, because we went out to dinner. Harry's Pig Shop has lots of different pork recipes, including pork wontons, that we had for appetizer. They weren't my favorite, basically just ground pork. I guess I like veggies in my egg rolls. Captain had pork barbecue ("pulled pork"), Vanessa had a BLT on a croissant (it was delicious), Ray had a chicken salad plate (with bacon), I had baked beans and potato salad, which also had bacon and was really good.

Captain and Vanessa went to play bridge. Ray and I were outside for a while until the sun set, then finished our taxes and watched some TV. We're all excited about going to France.