Saturday: Service, Snow, Soup, Sleep

[elfs]

Ladders are hard on my knees.

Saturday Omaha and I performed our quarterly ritual of keeping Kouryou-chan's school's raingutters clear. If we don't and the gutters over the dining area are allowed to clog up, the rain pours onto the poorly sloped slab and seeps under the door creating a mess and potentially a health hazard. We've already lost one classroom to a flood; we can't afford to lose a second. There were two other dads who came out to help us and they were fabulous. Between the four of us, we managed to clean the entire school's roof. The temperature was a balmy 2C (35F) and three layers of gloves didn't help keep out the cold that seeped through the leather layer. Going up and down on those ladders really took a toll on my knees, but I survived well enough. Like the hat? shemayazi made it for me. It's very nice.

Kouryou-chan brought her bicycle with her so she wouldn't be bored. She learned how to drive away from the sidewalk if she slipped off it so the tire wouldn't get caught on the curb. Unfortunately, she also managed to fall at least once and take the bike handle straight to the solar plexus, but she was a tough kid and was soon back on the bike.

We went home. Omaha and I took a shower together. Yum.

After a quick lunch of tomato soup and grilled cheese, we went out to the neighbor's church to attend their annual church bazaar. Even as we headed out, snow began to fall and by the time we got to the church the roads were scary. People were slipping and sliding, and the church was packing up and sending people home on the assumption that it would get worse.

There's a girl at the church who I ran into last year, who's a Naive Furry. She doesn't get on the Internet much ("too much pornography") but she loves anthro art and she's been drawing it ever since she was small. She's mostly in love with dragons but she had other pieces, too, and I picked up two drawings, one of a wolf and another of a fox.

Kouryou-chan's ballet rehearsal was cancelled. The brownies we picked up at the church made for fine compensation. When we got home, the snow was still coming down, the neighbors came home, and then all the kids went outside and tried to make much of the little snow they had. I made hot chocolate, which worked out pretty well even if the cubes of baker's chocolate we had were a little dried out. Omaha asked me to come outside and (I kinda knew this was coming) threw a snowball at me when I opened the door.

We didn't decide on dinner until nearly 8:00pm, at which point we were so tired from all the physical labor of the morning that we decided to go out to eat. Dinner was okay, but Omaha and I were leaning on each other and closing our eyes toward the end of the meal. Kouryou-chan said, "Am I going to have to carry you guys to the car?" Kid's got a fine sense of humor.

Comments

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

How good is this artist's work? There are selected PG communities like Artspots that she could look at safely and still get exposure to some great people to inspire her.

[tehrasha.livejournal.com]

What, no Utilikilt?

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

The heroic roofer strikes again! You should start wearing knee braces when you do that kinda stuff though. You can also get some warming patches that stick on skin or clothes. They're thin enough to wear under your clothes (even jeans around the knee area) without anyone noticing and the mild heat is incredibly helpful.

We're in the convergence zone here. Got about 7" of snow. We've melted down to about 4" now, but it can't make up it's mind whether it wants to rain or snow some more. Yup, it's Winter!

[grum]

Kouryou's comment is fabulous. Thanks for your stories of life in general, I enjoy reading them.