Celebration of a Busy Day!

We just returned to the Bay after visiting Dianne's family in Michigan and Ohio. At 5:30 this morning we were 30 miles West of Toledo. After a drive to Detroit, a surprisingly stressless flight to Baltimore, and a full (unstressless) day of work, I came home to repair a broken door and porch light. Apparently we had some strong storms while we were away. It now appears that we've lost about half of the garden to last week's flooding. After cleaning up, mowing, weeding and sweeping, I decided to finish the evening refining my quest for the perfect margarita. I'm very close! After the sun went down, we were surprised by a nice fireworks show coming from across the river, somewhere Northeast over and beyond Gibson Island. The fireworks were far enough away so that it took about 8 seconds for the sounds of the explosions to reach us after we saw the blasts. It was nice way to end the very busy day, sitting out on the front deck enjoying the reflections in the water.

The Perfect Margarita*
2 oz Cuervo Especial Tequilla
1 oz Grand Mariner
Juice of 2 limes
Splash of orange juice (very small splash)
1 Fruit Fly (optional)
Combine with cracked ice in drink shaker. Pour into salted-rim tumbler while frothy. Sip around edge until salt is gone, then pour back into shaker and re-salt tumbler.
*so far -S