Brad is a cereal eater, and since he’s a guy, his custom is to rinse off his cereal bowl and spoon and set them by the sink to use again the next day. Since I’m a girl, I kept putting his bowl in the dishwasher every other summer. Oops! So this year, we’ve got the perfect solution! Lloyd helped with it’s construction – he’s got mad Dremel skills – and made the spoon notch just right!
Only Good Shot
A couple of nights ago I was driving home from Wal-Mart as the sun was setting, and I came across a golden field of (insert correct grain name here) that was filled with fireflies! It was absolutely magical, but I didn’t have the camera. So, the next night I told Lloyd and Brad that we had to go see them. I had the time wrong and we were way too early, so it was a little disappointing, but there was a pretty good thunderstorm off to the south, and Lloyd took a bunch of pictures – and got this:
(In case you’re curious, the fireflies did come out later, but the pictures didn’t show up. Go figure.)
That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.
Well, I would call our sheet experiment a grand success! Today we hit a high of 91 degrees, and the upstairs stayed quite cool. I took some pictures tonight to show the 4 – 5 degree gain (loss?) that a bit of cloth made! By the way, we upgraded to a flat sheet – more corner coverage.
(I think I get my ‘watching the temperature’ interest from my dad. I grew up in western Colorado where it was dry, and we didn’t have central air conditioning. We would open windows at night and close them the next morning in the summers, and in winter he would manually turn the heat down at night and up in the morning. Let’s hear it for programmable thermostats of today – it’s like having Dad around!)
Side one:
Side two:
Worst dinner, best dessert.
First of all – Happy Birthday, Charlie!!!! (One of my nephews in Alaska.)Â
I have a conference to go to on Wednesday, so home stuff is sliding a bit. We had a terrible dinner – it was going to be sausage and scrambled eggs – fast and easy. I’m not normally a fan of breakfast stuff for dinner, but what can you do? The bad part was that we actually only had two eggs. So it was a tiny little serving – one egg and one little sausage apiece.
But dessert was awesome! The cook at school can make some rocking ‘chocolate muffins’ that are really just cupcakes with no frosting. We had extras, so I brought one home. I usually don’t care for cake that much, but these bring me to my knees with delicious joy. I must find out the recipe!!! (Oh, and I was the only one who had dessert. There was just one cupcake.)
With or without?
I love our house. It’s old and creaky, but it’s ours. One thing I do not love about it, though, is how hot it gets upstairs in the summer. Brad can attest to this, since he sleeps in the hottest room in the building. Our regular plan is to close all the vents on the first floor so that the cold air is pumped all the way upstairs and then floats down, but that’s not terribly effective at night after the roof has baked all day. So we’re trying something new – putting a barrier up so that the cold has to stay around a little longer. So far it seems to work, although walking through it with a basket of laundry I accidentally gave Pfennig a pretty righteous kick in the side. Stupid cat. Who dares sleep in my path?!
Those nutty nuts.
We thought these guys left! What a surprise to find that they stayed behind. It’s a shame to wake them….
So, the Missouri Sommerers are off on their whirlwind adventure to Western Nebraska and then Colorado. They have a real vacation planned, with actual stuff to do! Sam has one of my ukuleles along, with strict instructions to take pictures of it wherever they stop. So, if you’re checking this with your laptop, Sam, don’t forget. Then it can be like this.