Gretchen

Yesterday morning I drove 3 Club Kids and there teacher to the local fish hatchery. The weather was beautiful, and we had lots of fun. We had a tour guide, really mostly he provided fish food and answered a few questions. Lots and lot of fish food. He scooped a few out, but no-body but me touched them.

The rainbow trout were more fun to feed, they absolutly broiled up in a mess of fish body's. The brown were more shy, and required more tossing skills. I took along both camera's, and both T and K1 used our old gray one to take some photo's.

Visiting this time of year means seeing a couple of age classes in fish, the year old ones outside, then inside the egg, just born and few week old ones. Plus some grown ups in tanks on display.

After we were all done we stopped at BK to get lunch. All three ordered mac-n-cheese. In spite of A (the teacher) conferming with K1 and K2, you're sure you want that? you can have nuggets you know. T inhaled hers, K1 (to A's surprize) finished hers. K2 drank her drink down then nibbled on fry's, K1 and T ended up finishing off K2's mac-n-cheese.

On the way home they drew pictures. I didn't get to see K2's, but T drew a fish, then colored it with vertical stripes of several colors - a rainbow trout. (for the record, rainbow trouts have a horizontal red stripe) K1, drew a bunch of, well, what I would call gost type people, and named them all off - "me, T, K2, T's mommy, A"

T was home sick the day before, but that day deserves a post of it's own. Fortunatly the fever was gone tues evening and wed morning.

Saturday evening was a retirement party for our neighbor/my co-worker (and mentor). Retired (and night owl) Bapa watched T so Daddy and I could go to it. Which we're very greatful for.

MK is a caricter. And we heard lots of tales, many I had already heard from his side. But it was fun to have them confermed from the other person(s) perspective! I also spoke for a short bit.

It was a lot of fun, although we left shortly after the talking ended,(about 9) although talking with others it didn't last much longer after that, maybe 10 ish.


Sunday was lazy

Today is Daddy's birthday. 

He's starting to feel better from his surgery.

So, not the best way to spend his birthday.

But, I hope most of it is good!

Last thursday Daddy had his deveated septum straightened. (I probably spelled that wrong - he had the middle of his nose surgically broke and corrected)  Yes he's still sore, but getting better. The bleeding has slowed, or maybe stoped, it's hard to tell. He has a plastic split in his nose that comes out at  the end of the week.

We had to be at the hospital to the north by 7:30am, T's daycare is to the south. At the last minute Bapa agreed to spend the night and take her to daycare/pre-school so we all could sleep in a little. Otherwise we would have had to leave before 5am, instead of 6:30. It's times like this that I really appriciate having a retired grandparent within an hours drive!

I also took friday off, but took T down for a short day of daycare.  I've spent the time alternating between drugging Daddy and cooking and some cleaning.  I can't do anything that would raise dust, as he's not supposed to sneeze.  The house is also tropical rainforest levels of humidity.  Makes it easier for him to breath, so I've had several humidifiers going at once. Plus I canned some more applesauce. And just made a batch into the fridge for him to eat.

Yesterday was a beautiful day.  So near the end I took T down to the town playground. At first we were the only ones there, then other kids, and parents, started arriving.  She ended up on the old fashoned merry-go-round for quite some time with two other kids.  A little too long as it turned out, I realized she wasn't giggleing any more, got her off, but she still ended up loosing her lunch.  Poor kiddo. We left shortly after that, not surprizingly. I THINK she had fun most of the time, but not a nice way to end it.

Between all the work I've done, and getting up to help Daddy in the middle of the night, I'm tired.

We took a pink princess to Daddy's old neighborhood for trick-or-treating. I'm guessing soon she;s gonna want to join friends in town, but this worked for this year.  That way Daddy had a couch to hang out on, and talk with grampa while grandma and I escorted the child around.  She wasn't enthusiastic about going to every house, skipped quit a few in fact.  but this year she was able to say "trick-or-treat" to folks, she also said thank you, but she was able to do that last year too.

Even with only doing one block, and skipping houses she ended up with a reasonable haul, helped by the fact that many folks handed a handful out, not just one.

Sunday Daddy helped me peal apples, then I turned them into applesauce, canning some and freezing some. At teh end of the day I made a triple batch of whole wheat apple muffins, but only filled 2 pans so they would be bigger.  Some of those are frozen too.  I also tried an apple/pork dish for dinner, it was good, but we had some ideas to try making it better.

Daddy also felled a tree for next years firewood, and started to cut it up, before having to quit on account of sore feet.  T helped me haul some of this years supply up to the pile near the house. (we pile it in the woods, them move it after it dry's some, although we're behind in that step this year.)