a warm house

Jul 05, 2015 19:23


The housewarming party went really well yesterday. Most people were able to attend despite the poxy child, and in a fortuitous combination of good weather and me just not being up to trying to otherwise entertain said poxy child, basically the adults spent the entire afternoon and evening outside in the vast, beautiful back garden while the kids ( Read more... )

actual manor house, haus, tired, moving

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gows July 5 2015, 18:42:49 UTC
Awww . . . it sounds lovely! Hooray for people helping!

I do think a good KitCon is in order. :)

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mizkit July 5 2015, 18:56:52 UTC
Perhaps many small ManorCons! :)

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deborahblakehps July 5 2015, 19:59:04 UTC
It sounds wonderful! I want to take a turn around the garden too :-)

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martianmooncrab July 5 2015, 21:13:05 UTC
One of the kids (the child of a librarian) came to me and said, in horror, “You know those graphic novels you used to have on top of the bookcase that are now on three shelves? They’re OUT OF ORDER!!!”

the OCD is strong in this one... and of course.. books..

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mizkit July 5 2015, 21:18:41 UTC
My mom, overhearing him, said she'd noticed they were out of order, too, and was astonished, because I'm pretty OCD about that myself. :)

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martianmooncrab July 5 2015, 21:22:01 UTC
my music CD's are out of order at the moment, mostly because I am working on other projects... but, I KNOW they are, and its bothersome.

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desperance July 6 2015, 00:43:40 UTC
homemade lemonade (which was REALLY good and had to be rationed because when it was gone, it was gone!)

I hate how that happens.

And I would totally have come to your party instead of my own, if it weren't for the continent-plus-ocean in between.

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mizkit July 6 2015, 08:23:14 UTC
It actually worked out pretty well. Everybody got a glass and there was just enough. :)

Damn that continent plus ocean, or, alternately, damn that lack of transporters...

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Fence-painting made easy amberley July 6 2015, 04:40:52 UTC
How very Tom Sawyer! And what, nice weather so people could enjoy the outdoors? Well done!

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Re: Fence-painting made easy mizkit July 8 2015, 09:09:25 UTC
To be fair, I warned them ahead of time that I'd be making them do heavy lifting! It wasn't all "this fence is so much fun to paint!" :)

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