Weekendy Summary
Aug. 28th, 2006 07:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThe weekend came and went. I finally laid the last stone in the last place on the damned wall (at least for now); all we need now are capstones and compost, and we'll be ready to plant again next spring.
We took the girls to Oloteas, where they had a great time. The ritual was completely sung and quite well done. Kouryou-chan and Yamaraashi-chan tried to convince me that they could swim reliably and, well, they could for the most part. I am most pleased, but now I need to find them a swimming pool for the fall and winter so they don't lose the skills they've acquired. I should remember to bring shampoo and conditioner; Yamaraashi-chan's hair is very susceptible to chlorine.
I had gotten it into my head to bake fresh bread for Oloteas instead of just bringing something from the store, so I quickly kneaded out two loaves of French bread made with a small amount of amaranth flour, which gave it a texture with more moisture and thickness than a traditional French bread. Although there was enough to eat at the table, I think a lot of people wimped out and bought store-made bread, chicken, and even Doritos.
We had dinner with the very lovely KaeliSinger and her two delightful children. Someone asked the obvious question of the table: why is Frito-Lays not behind the legalization of marijuana? You'd think they'd be one of its biggest supporters.
Sunday, after a breakfast of French toast (made with the leftover bread mentioned above, natch) I finished the wall and Omaha leveled out the ground behind it for the garden. Omaha bought a new hard drive for her computer, and I found a $2 cable extender for the rear fan, meaning I can now close the case on my computer. While we were doing that, we downloaded about a hundred megabytes of new Quake 4 levels, only to find that one of them corrupted the entire Quake 4 engine and now we can't play. We'll have to re-install. Suck! We went to some household goods store and got lots of new towels in candy colors, new high-thread-count bedsheets, as well as individualized clothes hampers, all for the girls.
We picked an entire pound of blackberries. After a dinner of pizza (Yamaraashi-chan and I both like mushrooms, yay!) we let the girls watch Sleeping Beauty before Omaha shuffled them off to bed and I cleaned up the kitchen. I went to bed early: tomorrow is gonna be a long day.
We took the girls to Oloteas, where they had a great time. The ritual was completely sung and quite well done. Kouryou-chan and Yamaraashi-chan tried to convince me that they could swim reliably and, well, they could for the most part. I am most pleased, but now I need to find them a swimming pool for the fall and winter so they don't lose the skills they've acquired. I should remember to bring shampoo and conditioner; Yamaraashi-chan's hair is very susceptible to chlorine.
I had gotten it into my head to bake fresh bread for Oloteas instead of just bringing something from the store, so I quickly kneaded out two loaves of French bread made with a small amount of amaranth flour, which gave it a texture with more moisture and thickness than a traditional French bread. Although there was enough to eat at the table, I think a lot of people wimped out and bought store-made bread, chicken, and even Doritos.
We had dinner with the very lovely KaeliSinger and her two delightful children. Someone asked the obvious question of the table: why is Frito-Lays not behind the legalization of marijuana? You'd think they'd be one of its biggest supporters.
Sunday, after a breakfast of French toast (made with the leftover bread mentioned above, natch) I finished the wall and Omaha leveled out the ground behind it for the garden. Omaha bought a new hard drive for her computer, and I found a $2 cable extender for the rear fan, meaning I can now close the case on my computer. While we were doing that, we downloaded about a hundred megabytes of new Quake 4 levels, only to find that one of them corrupted the entire Quake 4 engine and now we can't play. We'll have to re-install. Suck! We went to some household goods store and got lots of new towels in candy colors, new high-thread-count bedsheets, as well as individualized clothes hampers, all for the girls.
We picked an entire pound of blackberries. After a dinner of pizza (Yamaraashi-chan and I both like mushrooms, yay!) we let the girls watch Sleeping Beauty before Omaha shuffled them off to bed and I cleaned up the kitchen. I went to bed early: tomorrow is gonna be a long day.
