Weekend and Week
This weekend was completely awesome.
We've been having gorgeous blue October weather for the last week and a half. It's beein in the 80s, with the leaves just starting to turn.
Friday morning I made the best curry of my life. It was a dark-meat panang with potatoes, carrots, and eggplants. Then, when the Other One got home early (on account of it being Friday) and we went letterboxing. It was a 15 box series based on Zelda (specifically, Twilight Princess). In fact, the clues included a walk-through of the game, complete with directions for fighting the bosses! And the stamps were lovely, easy, and close together.
Because it was such a lovely evening, we got an unexpected call from some friends to come over and barbecue - which we of course accepted (but, but...curry!). We ate basil burgers and played guitar by the fire until the pm had become the am and then some. (yeah, I think we went home at like...two). At which point we finished up Ghost Light and I made the other one read the 60-image macro that explains what's actually going on in Ghost Light.
Well, we went to bed and didn't get up until the next "morning" ... at which point we raced out of the house (still not having eaten the best curry known to man) to meet the gang for Apple Picking. We are now the proud owners of 20 lbs of apples. Delicious. I think I ate three apples while I was there, and it was awesome. The weather was perfect for it - possibly even a little hot! The apples we picked were Melrose - large tart and crisp. They were really pushing the Suncrisps, but they were yellow and mealy looking (and we tasted one and found we were right) so we avoided those. Then we bought a ton of squash, because it was squash. We bought a gigantic blue Hubbard Squash, which I'm going to be baking today or tomorrow and then making into puree for pies and such. Urban legend has it that the best pumpkin pies are made from blue hubbard squash - a legend I intend to put to rigorous scientific testing. (we also bought six tiny sugar pumpkins that were a good price because they all had a wall side - we're going to use them as individual servings of "pumkin stuffed with everything good" - possibly tonight!)
From the farm, we went over to City Barbeque to get together with a D&D meetup group. So we ate barbeque and bashed monsters and the DM yelled at us whenever we got barbeque sauce on his pre-generated character sheets. There ended up being three games going, and ours had fifteen players. It actually went startlingly well for such a large party. We killed some giant monsters, set off some traps, and our cleric fell down a fifty foot poison-spiked privy - it was good fun! And good barbeque. And once more came home and ate no curry.
Church went well and I got to cantor the psalm. (I won this honor by showing up half an hour early and practicing the psalm - yay basic competance!) After lunch there was Shape Note, which was awesome as always. We sang some unusual things and I was the only alto - very good times. We're going to be in California for the next meeting, but that makes it entirely possible we'll get to go down and sing with Shape Note Santa Cruz! That would be awesome.
As we were getting out of shape note and just thinking of heading home to delicious curry, we got an unexpected call from some friends to come over and barbecue (because it was such a lovely evening) - which we of course accepted. We ate brats and tater tots and played increasingly silly variants of poker until well into the evening, at which point we came home and went to bed and didn't get up until the next morning.
So the curry ended up being yesterday's lunch, at long long last. And it was delicious.
Today my mom is flying in from Baltimore (and by today I mean she'll be here in about an hour), and she'll be here for about two days before heading home. Thursday (when my mom leaves) is the day we'll be performing the three new masses before the congregation. They'll vote on one, which we'll start teaching on Sunday - before going over to (yet another) friends' house to watch the premier of season 2 of "The Walking Dead." Heck. Yeah. (it's seriously all the other one has talked about for a month - besides pumpkins, of course). Saturday is Buckeye Games Fest, where we'll be working for a couple of hours, and the Other One is going to get to show his Night of the Living Dead board game to a publisher! It's very exciting.
We also finished "Curse of Fenric" last night, but that might deserve it's own post. But first - laundry! The maternal unit cometh! BEWARE!
We've been having gorgeous blue October weather for the last week and a half. It's beein in the 80s, with the leaves just starting to turn.
Friday morning I made the best curry of my life. It was a dark-meat panang with potatoes, carrots, and eggplants. Then, when the Other One got home early (on account of it being Friday) and we went letterboxing. It was a 15 box series based on Zelda (specifically, Twilight Princess). In fact, the clues included a walk-through of the game, complete with directions for fighting the bosses! And the stamps were lovely, easy, and close together.
Because it was such a lovely evening, we got an unexpected call from some friends to come over and barbecue - which we of course accepted (but, but...curry!). We ate basil burgers and played guitar by the fire until the pm had become the am and then some. (yeah, I think we went home at like...two). At which point we finished up Ghost Light and I made the other one read the 60-image macro that explains what's actually going on in Ghost Light.
Well, we went to bed and didn't get up until the next "morning" ... at which point we raced out of the house (still not having eaten the best curry known to man) to meet the gang for Apple Picking. We are now the proud owners of 20 lbs of apples. Delicious. I think I ate three apples while I was there, and it was awesome. The weather was perfect for it - possibly even a little hot! The apples we picked were Melrose - large tart and crisp. They were really pushing the Suncrisps, but they were yellow and mealy looking (and we tasted one and found we were right) so we avoided those. Then we bought a ton of squash, because it was squash. We bought a gigantic blue Hubbard Squash, which I'm going to be baking today or tomorrow and then making into puree for pies and such. Urban legend has it that the best pumpkin pies are made from blue hubbard squash - a legend I intend to put to rigorous scientific testing. (we also bought six tiny sugar pumpkins that were a good price because they all had a wall side - we're going to use them as individual servings of "pumkin stuffed with everything good" - possibly tonight!)
From the farm, we went over to City Barbeque to get together with a D&D meetup group. So we ate barbeque and bashed monsters and the DM yelled at us whenever we got barbeque sauce on his pre-generated character sheets. There ended up being three games going, and ours had fifteen players. It actually went startlingly well for such a large party. We killed some giant monsters, set off some traps, and our cleric fell down a fifty foot poison-spiked privy - it was good fun! And good barbeque. And once more came home and ate no curry.
Church went well and I got to cantor the psalm. (I won this honor by showing up half an hour early and practicing the psalm - yay basic competance!) After lunch there was Shape Note, which was awesome as always. We sang some unusual things and I was the only alto - very good times. We're going to be in California for the next meeting, but that makes it entirely possible we'll get to go down and sing with Shape Note Santa Cruz! That would be awesome.
As we were getting out of shape note and just thinking of heading home to delicious curry, we got an unexpected call from some friends to come over and barbecue (because it was such a lovely evening) - which we of course accepted. We ate brats and tater tots and played increasingly silly variants of poker until well into the evening, at which point we came home and went to bed and didn't get up until the next morning.
So the curry ended up being yesterday's lunch, at long long last. And it was delicious.
Today my mom is flying in from Baltimore (and by today I mean she'll be here in about an hour), and she'll be here for about two days before heading home. Thursday (when my mom leaves) is the day we'll be performing the three new masses before the congregation. They'll vote on one, which we'll start teaching on Sunday - before going over to (yet another) friends' house to watch the premier of season 2 of "The Walking Dead." Heck. Yeah. (it's seriously all the other one has talked about for a month - besides pumpkins, of course). Saturday is Buckeye Games Fest, where we'll be working for a couple of hours, and the Other One is going to get to show his Night of the Living Dead board game to a publisher! It's very exciting.
We also finished "Curse of Fenric" last night, but that might deserve it's own post. But first - laundry! The maternal unit cometh! BEWARE!