My Weekend...
Friday evening, fallenpegasus wandered over as he often does and we tried to make fish kebabs. There was a huge raft of vegetables: eggplant, zucchini, sweet onions, bell peppers, parboiled yam, mushrooms, and basil leaves with which to wrap the fish, as well as couscous on the side. It was very yummy, but unless the basil was completely wrapped around a piece of fish it dried out before most of the vegetables were sufficiently roasted.
The wine of the evening was Little Penguin Merlot. The movie of the evening was the MST3K Fire Maidens From Outer Space, an incredibly dull bit of historical tripe with more timefillers than I care to imagine. More on that later.
Saturday, I made pancakes and, experimenting with a recipe that I had tried on the camping trip, I made one cake per small pan, a huge cake for each person. Omaha became frustrated that her ride for a political event wasn't showing, but she eventually got there. I cleaned up for a while.
Kouryou-chan and I headed out, picked up Omaha, and hurtled over to the Carpenter's Hall to pick Omaha up from her Democratic Party rally and then north to the Camp Fire Girl's site to pick up Yamaarashi-chan at 1:00pm from her week at camp.
The bus was late. We received word that they wouldn't be there until two. We drove over to Greenlake and idled in the wading pool, then went back. I found her and was so pleased to see her, whole and happy. She gleefully showed off the knitting, which had apparently been a big part of her camping experience. She talked about swimming and drama and mostly she talked about the people she met, which was good for her. We saw shastaw's son, who looked to be in good health and assured us that his grandmother was there to get him.
After many tearful goodbyes with all of the friends she'd made over the summer we all went to the deli next to Greenlake, let the kids wander around in the wading pool. Around four, we went over to Vivace's to meet up with a few social acquaintances and friends while the girls played in the back area, then went home and had hamburgers for dinner.
Omaha was in a grim mood thanks to having to deal with the demon children from Hell, so we went downstairs and watched the MST3K The Human Duplicators, a very silly attempt at a late-60's made-for-TV movie.
Sunday, we did some gardening, mostly digging up the southeast corner of the property to make a new retaining wall for the garden space there, which is currently out of control. I'm tempted to hire a landscaping service to just tear the hell out of that area and replant it.
There was a birthday party next door, at the feral neighbor's house, and poor Kouryou-chan is enamored of the freedoms that the little boy there seems to have, although she also recognizes that he's very unhappy a lot of the time. More on that later, too.
Eventually, I took Yamaarashi-chan back to her mother's house for her next two weeks until school begins. The rest of us went to bed early.
The wine of the evening was Little Penguin Merlot. The movie of the evening was the MST3K Fire Maidens From Outer Space, an incredibly dull bit of historical tripe with more timefillers than I care to imagine. More on that later.
Saturday, I made pancakes and, experimenting with a recipe that I had tried on the camping trip, I made one cake per small pan, a huge cake for each person. Omaha became frustrated that her ride for a political event wasn't showing, but she eventually got there. I cleaned up for a while.
Kouryou-chan and I headed out, picked up Omaha, and hurtled over to the Carpenter's Hall to pick Omaha up from her Democratic Party rally and then north to the Camp Fire Girl's site to pick up Yamaarashi-chan at 1:00pm from her week at camp.
The bus was late. We received word that they wouldn't be there until two. We drove over to Greenlake and idled in the wading pool, then went back. I found her and was so pleased to see her, whole and happy. She gleefully showed off the knitting, which had apparently been a big part of her camping experience. She talked about swimming and drama and mostly she talked about the people she met, which was good for her. We saw shastaw's son, who looked to be in good health and assured us that his grandmother was there to get him.
After many tearful goodbyes with all of the friends she'd made over the summer we all went to the deli next to Greenlake, let the kids wander around in the wading pool. Around four, we went over to Vivace's to meet up with a few social acquaintances and friends while the girls played in the back area, then went home and had hamburgers for dinner.
Omaha was in a grim mood thanks to having to deal with the demon children from Hell, so we went downstairs and watched the MST3K The Human Duplicators, a very silly attempt at a late-60's made-for-TV movie.
Sunday, we did some gardening, mostly digging up the southeast corner of the property to make a new retaining wall for the garden space there, which is currently out of control. I'm tempted to hire a landscaping service to just tear the hell out of that area and replant it.
There was a birthday party next door, at the feral neighbor's house, and poor Kouryou-chan is enamored of the freedoms that the little boy there seems to have, although she also recognizes that he's very unhappy a lot of the time. More on that later, too.
Eventually, I took Yamaarashi-chan back to her mother's house for her next two weeks until school begins. The rest of us went to bed early.