Monday Morning Updatia
Jul. 10th, 2006 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianMy reign of being Home Alone - which began on Wednesday morning at 5am comes to an end today. Deb, Justin, and Brandon return today, sometime while I'm at work. Rachel will remain at my mom's for about two weeks, and then Justin will swap places with her for a couple of weeks before everyone is back home. Of course, I spent two days of my "vacation" at work and one day working from home with a much-fun-and-entertainment stomach bug. Thanks to that little bit o' crud, I wound up falling asleep Friday night at, well, 4 AM Saturday morning.
Slept in a bit on Saturday, took care of some stuff, ate lunch, and then headed down to my co-worker's house for an afternoon and evening of gaming. It was a bit of a pirate themed afternoon, with the Pirate's Cove and Cartagena board games. I'm going to have to look into both of them - I can see the kids enjoying them, particularly the latter of the two. Very simple rules, but some interesting strategy to it.
Around 5pm or so, Michelle had to leave, and we switched over to D&D. Pizza was ordered and we set about designing our characters. Bob's druid/rimefire witch/cleric shifted around a few times, and may still be something completely different. Kevin came in a bit later, and is playing some form of mage - not sure exactly which blend, though. Although my skald (bard) was going to channel Yngwie J. Malmsteen - a thought which came to me on the ride down there - he became a bit more focused over the course of the evening, and it wasn't until the ride home that he made a fitting name change to Tungur Knivur, Blade of Thor. Still a skald, also a stormsinger, and soon to be focusing a bit more on the sword. I'll probably post a bit of his background story at some later time.
Got home at a relatively reasonable time, but then had to copy directions for Sunday (which, at that time, it technically was) and so forth, so it was around 2am when I fell asleep.
Woke up at 4am, but Sunday really needs its own post, so that will come later today.
This morning I made a quick tour of the yard - hadn't been out in it since Thursday - and I noticed that the sweet fern that we had transplanted from the bank above Rachel River to the island in Stone Stream last fall finally had buds. I had given up on it as a lost cause, to the point that on Thursday, I investigated several more clumps of the spreading, suckering plant with thoughts of attempting to move some more to replace it. Looks like it was just working on roots, and is now ready to go further. Much coolness, as it not only looks good (with its fern-like leaves,) smells nice (with its aromatic foliage,) but is also a nitrogen-fixing plant, so it will help improve the soil around it. Considering that particular area has some of the worst builder-packed garbage soil left on the property, this is a Good Thing.
To wrap up, I stopped to let a young lady and her two children cross the road, just down the street from my house. One of the young ones started a bit, turning for the woods but not bolting. She just looked at me with her big brown eyes. Finally, I gave in and rolled slowly past her, her breath almost on my window. The twins both had white spotted coats.
Maybe it has to do with the deer spray and fence, but I definitely like therodents deer better when they're not eating everything I plant.
Slept in a bit on Saturday, took care of some stuff, ate lunch, and then headed down to my co-worker's house for an afternoon and evening of gaming. It was a bit of a pirate themed afternoon, with the Pirate's Cove and Cartagena board games. I'm going to have to look into both of them - I can see the kids enjoying them, particularly the latter of the two. Very simple rules, but some interesting strategy to it.
Around 5pm or so, Michelle had to leave, and we switched over to D&D. Pizza was ordered and we set about designing our characters. Bob's druid/rimefire witch/cleric shifted around a few times, and may still be something completely different. Kevin came in a bit later, and is playing some form of mage - not sure exactly which blend, though. Although my skald (bard) was going to channel Yngwie J. Malmsteen - a thought which came to me on the ride down there - he became a bit more focused over the course of the evening, and it wasn't until the ride home that he made a fitting name change to Tungur Knivur, Blade of Thor. Still a skald, also a stormsinger, and soon to be focusing a bit more on the sword. I'll probably post a bit of his background story at some later time.
Got home at a relatively reasonable time, but then had to copy directions for Sunday (which, at that time, it technically was) and so forth, so it was around 2am when I fell asleep.
Woke up at 4am, but Sunday really needs its own post, so that will come later today.
This morning I made a quick tour of the yard - hadn't been out in it since Thursday - and I noticed that the sweet fern that we had transplanted from the bank above Rachel River to the island in Stone Stream last fall finally had buds. I had given up on it as a lost cause, to the point that on Thursday, I investigated several more clumps of the spreading, suckering plant with thoughts of attempting to move some more to replace it. Looks like it was just working on roots, and is now ready to go further. Much coolness, as it not only looks good (with its fern-like leaves,) smells nice (with its aromatic foliage,) but is also a nitrogen-fixing plant, so it will help improve the soil around it. Considering that particular area has some of the worst builder-packed garbage soil left on the property, this is a Good Thing.
To wrap up, I stopped to let a young lady and her two children cross the road, just down the street from my house. One of the young ones started a bit, turning for the woods but not bolting. She just looked at me with her big brown eyes. Finally, I gave in and rolled slowly past her, her breath almost on my window. The twins both had white spotted coats.
Maybe it has to do with the deer spray and fence, but I definitely like the
