Holiday weekend was a perfect time to reconnect, reflect

What a great weekend.

The just passed Fourth of July holiday served up a perfect menu of generous portions of family and friends topped off by time to dial life down just a little from the hectic pace it had been on recently.

It wasn’t totally without sweat, however.

I got to check off the big project, finishing the moving of the final dozen wheelbarrows of river rock — the last of 6,000 pounds dumped in my driveway — into the backyard and hopefully make one more flower bed a zero maintenance zone.

There was another bonus: I even found the top of my workbench in the garage after finding the pl...