Made in the shade

So the kids, in this pic, are enjoying the new mid-day shade we've got at Casa de Jones. 

Adro bought all new patio furniture, replete with a big ass umbrella, recently. I learned about this purchase about a day before the box — about the size of Judy's car — arrived at the house.

It's a good purchase. No idea how much it cost, and that's fine with me. (I let Adro worry about the money. I just worry about the assembly.)

So my Sunday was spent assembling this new couch set. Not that big a deal. It took about 2.5 hours to assemble the furniture, and probably the same to assemble and troubleshoot the umbrella (it required 200 pounds to keep it anchored, and I'm guessing a Kansas wind, plus it being on the upper deck... probably need more like 300 pounds. Tried to accommodate, but I'm nervous.) Got sunburnt doing it. 

But then we had this magical lunch under the umbrella. Adrianne got this sandwich bread — wheat bolleo, or somesuch? SO GOOD! She whipped up these sandwiches, we all ate under the umbrella, on the new furniture... I told Adrianne it might have been among the top three sandwiches I've ever had IN MY LIFE... and afterwards, I just chilled there for a little while, exhausted from travel, work, etc. It felt good. 

I hope to do that more in the near future. Now that I'm 40, and the kids are more mature (OK, Evey has been mature for 8 years), maybe I can start to chill out under this umbrella on weekends, with a good book....

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Top three sandwiches, huh? Do I know the other two? Well, let's consider...

Top three sandwiches consumed by Seth Jones, in his first 40 years, no order:

Quinton's, late 90s/early 2000s, ham and cheese on wheat, grilled, plain potato chips and a side of barbecue

Back deck, 2017, under the umbrella, made by Adro on some wheat "bolleo(?)" hogie bun. Ham, Tillamook cheese, lettuce, vine tomatoes, light mayo and mustard, with chee-tohs

Citi Field, Mets game, 2013 or 2014, steak sandwich from center field. Steak, steak sauce, grilled onions, Monterey jack cheese and a tall Miller Lite.