Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Always something amazing going on!
Of course, sometimes too much amazing fun means you have to take a breather-day. Or at least, I do. I did try to do a big wad of errands yesterday, but only ended up completing a small wad. Oh, well, TODAY is still a viable option for some of those.
One time consuming thing I did yesterday, which now I admit I should have done weeks ago, was go to the doc. Six weeks is too long to have laryngitis. He diagnosed a low-level sinus infection. After just one day of the Keflex, my voice is already nearly intelligible! Yay!
We had another family work weekend where again The Amazing Nigel did the work of three men and a dog. He spread most of eight tons of river rock under the trees by 'my' driveway, and it looks super! He also raked and cleared about, oh, a total of 1/8 of an acre of old dead standing weeds. Then he (with my willing but not so impressive help) piled a bunch of punky old scrap wood on the dead weeds and we had us a huge bonfire! Those are always fun!
But the weekend was not just me working my son-in-law to exhaustion. I spent an idyllic half-hour in the meager shade of the slowly unfurling curly locust as the grand girlies painted my nails. Picture my elegance with glittery chartreuse toenails and glowing grape fingernails with iridescent polka dots! Yes, they are indeed my genetic offshoots....
We also had a grand time shooting off to the picture show (all but Nigel and Caro, who got some well earned 'pieces of quiet'). Disney's Home On the Range was playing. Mike loved it (especially the train part), the grands were tolerably entertained, and Damaris and I had immense fun MST3King it to each other in snarky whispers.
At home, I remembered I was going to find a languishing telescope I'd noticed in the basement. Grandson Zach got that set up, and we had a lovely time sitting on the porch in the dark, looking at the moon and talking about science-y stuff.
The main focus of the weekend, though, was the New Idea. Damaris and Nigel have decided to move back to Lamar and eventually get a place in the country too. Probably, if all goes well, on the plot of land right behind our house!
Of course I am very pleased, since it's hard to be a proper matriarch of a clan when the darn clan is out there all over the place. There's a lot that has to happen, but with moderate luck, they could be in place in time to host the family Thanksgiving at their new house!
One time consuming thing I did yesterday, which now I admit I should have done weeks ago, was go to the doc. Six weeks is too long to have laryngitis. He diagnosed a low-level sinus infection. After just one day of the Keflex, my voice is already nearly intelligible! Yay!
We had another family work weekend where again The Amazing Nigel did the work of three men and a dog. He spread most of eight tons of river rock under the trees by 'my' driveway, and it looks super! He also raked and cleared about, oh, a total of 1/8 of an acre of old dead standing weeds. Then he (with my willing but not so impressive help) piled a bunch of punky old scrap wood on the dead weeds and we had us a huge bonfire! Those are always fun!
But the weekend was not just me working my son-in-law to exhaustion. I spent an idyllic half-hour in the meager shade of the slowly unfurling curly locust as the grand girlies painted my nails. Picture my elegance with glittery chartreuse toenails and glowing grape fingernails with iridescent polka dots! Yes, they are indeed my genetic offshoots....
We also had a grand time shooting off to the picture show (all but Nigel and Caro, who got some well earned 'pieces of quiet'). Disney's Home On the Range was playing. Mike loved it (especially the train part), the grands were tolerably entertained, and Damaris and I had immense fun MST3King it to each other in snarky whispers.
At home, I remembered I was going to find a languishing telescope I'd noticed in the basement. Grandson Zach got that set up, and we had a lovely time sitting on the porch in the dark, looking at the moon and talking about science-y stuff.
The main focus of the weekend, though, was the New Idea. Damaris and Nigel have decided to move back to Lamar and eventually get a place in the country too. Probably, if all goes well, on the plot of land right behind our house!
Of course I am very pleased, since it's hard to be a proper matriarch of a clan when the darn clan is out there all over the place. There's a lot that has to happen, but with moderate luck, they could be in place in time to host the family Thanksgiving at their new house!
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