T Stands for a Friday Night Pizza Party And a Few Other Things

 Hi everyone. 

It's been a busy week around my house. I've been doing lots of yard work (in between wind and rain), and the hubby is on vacation this week. I know he wants to bring his boat home from his mother's, but otherwise I think we'll be doing more things around the house, including moving more brush as he cut  down a few more (luckily smaller diameter)  trees  this past weekend.

  I now have some  daffodils blooming in my garden as well as some hyacinths  too. 

I love how daffodils are no work flowers that just come back thicker and thicker as years go by. 

More garden photos another day. Today is Tuesday, so it is time for T over at  Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog.

This week I want to share a fun Friday evening pizza party we had last weekend. My daughter and her beau came to visit for the night. 

My daughter's beau Zach was taking his professional engineering exam that day. Passing this exam  allows someone who has been working in certain engineering fields for at least 4 years to be able to stamp their own designs. Once you pass the exam, you can apply for a licence in whatever state(s) you do work in, and those states, if they approve you for your license, will send you a stamp.

 The 8 hour test is on top of weeks of studying for it. Without passing the test, these engineers legally must have someone else stamp their drawing before they can be constructed. For example,  if an engineering team designs a bridge, someone on the team must have passed the test and become licensed in that state (or states) to stamp the drawings and say that the design is safe. That person is often the team leader. The test, therefore, is a pretty big deal in the engineer's career.

Since my daughter and her beau live on the opposite side of the side from us, Zach had to leave the house before 4 AM in order to be at the test center by the 7 AM check in. The funny thing is the testing center is in the same building where my husband works. Because it would be a long drive home after an already long day, my daughter and her beau decided to come spend the night with us.

 Since my husband is a civil engineer just like Zach (and my daughter also, although she has worked in community planning rather than engineering), he knows what kind of day Zach had taking the test. The hubby thought we should celebrate with something Zach really likes to eat. One of those foods happens to be Pizza Hut pizza. Since there is no Pizza Hut in their part of the state and since it was Friday night, we decided to have pizza and beer to celebrate the test being over. And I bet you can guess who we let pick the type of pizzas we had.

That was a lousy pour with all that foam though. All the beer photos in my post today are my ticket to T.

And here's everyone but me (I was busy taking the photo) enjoying some pizza and a drink. We had 2 different beers, both microbrews from Vermont.  As my daughter is not a beer drinker, she had a hard flavored seltzer water. 

I hope Zach's test went well, but he won't know the results for a couple of months while they grade it. It has yet to become an online exam like so many other tests have become.

Lastly, some of you might recognize the building in this photo that I took this past Sunday.

Just saying, if the weather doesn't get cold and wet, there is a chance you might see it again next T day. That is, if we visit when they open this weekend for the season.  It's very exciting to see things starting to open up again. 

I hope everyone has a great upcoming week as well a T day too.

Thanks for visiting.