shepherd's bush and a leopard's pie
I am so overdue on posting things. Well, starting in order...
Carnival happened (a week+ ago now), and it was overall a really excellent weekend.
Friday after my morning meeting I went to the jboys' school and signed them out so they could come watch mobot. Well, mobot was the excuse; I think they were mostly just happy to get out of school. I did some wandering with a few folks then went back and pretended to work for a few more hours. After work I decided to join the 412Flock bike ride, then home to greet scu, our houseguest for the weekend, and one of his contra friends, and we hung out chatting until late.
Saturday I made the boys help me do a bunch of housecleaning while Xuth did a bunch of yardwork, then we headed to CMU to see booths on midway. I got stuck at the Math Club booth where they had various logic puzzles on their walls and solved their "easy" sudoku in about 15 minutes (but I needed pencilmarks, so I told them it was not "easy") and looked at their "hard" sudoku before giving up and heading over to the SCS alumni snackfest (I did get a picture of it, and determined later that it actually was not solveable. Hmph.). A few of us wandered around the new Scott Hall with mjs before heading to the cslounge BBQ in Squirrel Hill, where food was et and Tichu was played. After leaving there we went home and I helped Jim make pizza, some people came over for board games, and we hung out chatting until late.
raspberry piSunday everybody in the house worked on a bunch of party prep and cleaning and pie making and setup all the way up until 2pm when people arrived and eventually I sat down. Party was most excellent. There was food (most of which was eaten), drinks, trampoline, bouncy stilts, a hoverboard, DDR, a small dog, 5 bikes, face painting, a hammock, pizzas, and a few games. The weather was superb and the backyard grass and porch was covered with people enjoying it. I counted up a total of 32 pies and 80 people (~20 of them under age 18), which is not quite a record but pretty close. There were almost no leftovers.
The most fun pie this year was the "raspberry pi" (pictured) and I think the most delicious pie was a brown sugar pie, which I'm pretty sure I need to acquire the recipe to (although almost everything I tasted was yummy). A smaller group stayed late and played Ticket to Ride Pennsylvania and kindly let me stomp all over them.
Cleanup was mostly not a huge pain, thanks to really awesome guests who are not only pretty good about not making a huge mess in general but are also super awesome and many of them helped with cleanup during the party. A few dishwasher loads took care of the majority of it, and several days of slowly working on larger stuff here and there took care of the rest of it. As of yesterday I am finally willing to declare the house back to normal, with the rug vacuumed, the furniture all moved back, and last of the borrowed things cleaned and bagged and ready to be returned.
A++ would pie again. Next year.
Carnival happened (a week+ ago now), and it was overall a really excellent weekend.
Friday after my morning meeting I went to the jboys' school and signed them out so they could come watch mobot. Well, mobot was the excuse; I think they were mostly just happy to get out of school. I did some wandering with a few folks then went back and pretended to work for a few more hours. After work I decided to join the 412Flock bike ride, then home to greet scu, our houseguest for the weekend, and one of his contra friends, and we hung out chatting until late.
Saturday I made the boys help me do a bunch of housecleaning while Xuth did a bunch of yardwork, then we headed to CMU to see booths on midway. I got stuck at the Math Club booth where they had various logic puzzles on their walls and solved their "easy" sudoku in about 15 minutes (but I needed pencilmarks, so I told them it was not "easy") and looked at their "hard" sudoku before giving up and heading over to the SCS alumni snackfest (I did get a picture of it, and determined later that it actually was not solveable. Hmph.). A few of us wandered around the new Scott Hall with mjs before heading to the cslounge BBQ in Squirrel Hill, where food was et and Tichu was played. After leaving there we went home and I helped Jim make pizza, some people came over for board games, and we hung out chatting until late.
raspberry piSunday everybody in the house worked on a bunch of party prep and cleaning and pie making and setup all the way up until 2pm when people arrived and eventually I sat down. Party was most excellent. There was food (most of which was eaten), drinks, trampoline, bouncy stilts, a hoverboard, DDR, a small dog, 5 bikes, face painting, a hammock, pizzas, and a few games. The weather was superb and the backyard grass and porch was covered with people enjoying it. I counted up a total of 32 pies and 80 people (~20 of them under age 18), which is not quite a record but pretty close. There were almost no leftovers.
The most fun pie this year was the "raspberry pi" (pictured) and I think the most delicious pie was a brown sugar pie, which I'm pretty sure I need to acquire the recipe to (although almost everything I tasted was yummy). A smaller group stayed late and played Ticket to Ride Pennsylvania and kindly let me stomp all over them.
Cleanup was mostly not a huge pain, thanks to really awesome guests who are not only pretty good about not making a huge mess in general but are also super awesome and many of them helped with cleanup during the party. A few dishwasher loads took care of the majority of it, and several days of slowly working on larger stuff here and there took care of the rest of it. As of yesterday I am finally willing to declare the house back to normal, with the rug vacuumed, the furniture all moved back, and last of the borrowed things cleaned and bagged and ready to be returned.
A++ would pie again. Next year.