Life here in the Miser Family Household continues to be rich and full: with concrete, music, travel, hypothermia, and Pirates!
Early in the week, Prewash and I got to supervise a construction crew pouring concrete almost practically at the base of our porch. Front row seats!
My guy got to make it home safely from Russia; the periodic table is still going strong even after 150 years! And K-daughter had hiking adventures in Montana. This is the text she sent me on Tuesday:
And then her cell phone service cut out until today, when she told me she was on a plane headed home. So. Safe.
Also, I-daughter apparently realized that I had no idea what she was up to (maybe because the last update said that I had no idea what she was up to), so she sent me this email:
As for me, I started a Zero Waste group here in our city, and we had our first meeting, and it was fun. People came!
From the other side, you can see a poor sailor walking the plank.
Early in the week, Prewash and I got to supervise a construction crew pouring concrete almost practically at the base of our porch. Front row seats!
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| The guy at the left: is his shirt yellow or green? I say yellow; my husband and N-son say green. |
We are safe.
I ended up getting hypothermia, but I'm safe. A-child is safe. D is safe and the rest of the crew. We are heading back to civilization and going to eat
And then her cell phone service cut out until today, when she told me she was on a plane headed home. So. Safe.
Also, I-daughter apparently realized that I had no idea what she was up to (maybe because the last update said that I had no idea what she was up to), so she sent me this email:
Mama,September has been rich-and-full of music! First I spent a weekend in NYC visiting Dena (my college friend). We went to a karaoke bar and 2 musicals (Waitress and Beetlejuice).Chorus started up on Monday, so I'm singing again. Saturday was our retreat/long rehearsal day (9am-2pm) and then at 3 we performed at the Africa-fest downtown.
Last night I went to the Backstreet Boys concert at Hershey! I saw them at Wolftrap in 2008 and they're just as much fun nowI got home after midnight and I am very tired now, but I think my ears have stopped ringing.
All in all it's been a great music-full month so far!
I'll see you Saturday (and maybe tonight if I feel awake enough)I-daughter
P.s. one of the pictures is the toy soldiers outside of FAO Schwarz (in Rockefeller center) holding my sock
N-son is starting to study to get his learner's permit, which means he might get driving lessons soon. That will be a grand new experience for him! He says he's been in touch with J-son, and that J-son really likes his new job feeding Wounded Warriors. I'm glad he got a job, but I'm sad that it meant that he couldn't come home for our awesome annual tradition of . . .
The Pirate Dinner!
Complete with giant turkey legs, pickles (for brine), lemons and limes to prevent scurvy, hard tack (oyster crackers), an all-new Treasure Hunt, a lusty singing of "What'll yer do with a drunken sailor", and awesome costumes.
New this year was the Pirate Cake, which came out adorable, if I do say so myself.
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| See the cannons? the alligator? The treasure chest in the poop deck? |
It's good to take some time every once in a while figuring out the answers to new problems in life (like, "How do you attache a Twizzler rope to a pretzel mast?"*). It kind of keeps you fresh. And alive. It's better than getting hypothermia, I think.
And that's the news from our family, which continues to be wealthy in our piratical adventures. May you and yours find buried treasure, too.
* The good thing about this problem is that you get to eat your mistakes.
The best technique I found for succeeding is to make a slit in the Twizzler with a knife,
a bit larger than the diameter of the pretzel, and slip this over the top of the pretzel mast.
Icing helps with gluing together almost everything else on the cake,
but it's not very effective with Twizzlers.
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