Ugh Saturday
Oct. 13th, 2007 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feste_sylvainDay starts with cats dumping all Thag's stuff into garbage. Thag fish out cell phone and car key and book and other bed-side shelf stuff.
Then phone goes off. Wood-man says he is twenty minutes from dumping two cords of wood on Thag-lawn. Thag get up and get dressed.
Wood-man shows up. Wood-man dumps a cord of green wood and a cord of seasoned wood which looks black, but that is because it is wet. Okay. Thag pay Wood-man.
Then Thag get two Thag-daughters to stack green wood in wood-shed, so seasoned wood will go in last and come out first. Thag snart.
Two hours later, Thag figure out that no way are two cords of wood going to fit into wood-shed. Nuh-uh. No how. But Thag-wife is snart. Thag-wife say that we have tarp, so Thag-daughters should stack green wood between two trees in Thag-forest, and we can cover it up and let it season there. Hooray!
So Thag hauls green wood to good spot, and Thag-daughters stack it between two trees. Then Thag and older Thag-daughter cover it with tarp and tie tarp down.
Just a cord of seasoned wood to haul and stack tomorrow. Most will go into wood-shed, but some will not. Thag will worry about that tomorrow.
Then I take my girls to their school's "Fall Festival", where my younger enters the jam tarts she made herself into the Baking Contest. IMHO, she had the best thing there (puff pastry and fig jam), followed closely by "apple brownies" (which had no chocolate; these were more like apple bars, but they were good) and then "pumpkin squares" (some good pumpkin cake). None of those three entries won anything; instead, an orange-swirl cake which obviously came out of a box won first prize, and some bland chocolate chip cookies won second. The judges were obviously brain-dead. Or at least tongue-dead.
My younger got to ride a pony, and she won several bags of candy in the "scarecrow relay", in which a runner runs to a box of scarecrow clothes, and relays them back to their partner who has to put them on. First dressed scarecrow wins.
Both girls painted pumpkins, because nobody trusts children with knives these days.
I'm pretty much knackered, but Thag gets to finish hauling wood tomorrow.
EDIT: I added the "exercize" tag because hey, I hauled a freaking cord of wood over the course of three hours. Worked up a sweat and everything.
Then phone goes off. Wood-man says he is twenty minutes from dumping two cords of wood on Thag-lawn. Thag get up and get dressed.
Wood-man shows up. Wood-man dumps a cord of green wood and a cord of seasoned wood which looks black, but that is because it is wet. Okay. Thag pay Wood-man.
Then Thag get two Thag-daughters to stack green wood in wood-shed, so seasoned wood will go in last and come out first. Thag snart.
Two hours later, Thag figure out that no way are two cords of wood going to fit into wood-shed. Nuh-uh. No how. But Thag-wife is snart. Thag-wife say that we have tarp, so Thag-daughters should stack green wood between two trees in Thag-forest, and we can cover it up and let it season there. Hooray!
So Thag hauls green wood to good spot, and Thag-daughters stack it between two trees. Then Thag and older Thag-daughter cover it with tarp and tie tarp down.
Just a cord of seasoned wood to haul and stack tomorrow. Most will go into wood-shed, but some will not. Thag will worry about that tomorrow.
Then I take my girls to their school's "Fall Festival", where my younger enters the jam tarts she made herself into the Baking Contest. IMHO, she had the best thing there (puff pastry and fig jam), followed closely by "apple brownies" (which had no chocolate; these were more like apple bars, but they were good) and then "pumpkin squares" (some good pumpkin cake). None of those three entries won anything; instead, an orange-swirl cake which obviously came out of a box won first prize, and some bland chocolate chip cookies won second. The judges were obviously brain-dead. Or at least tongue-dead.
My younger got to ride a pony, and she won several bags of candy in the "scarecrow relay", in which a runner runs to a box of scarecrow clothes, and relays them back to their partner who has to put them on. First dressed scarecrow wins.
Both girls painted pumpkins, because nobody trusts children with knives these days.
I'm pretty much knackered, but Thag gets to finish hauling wood tomorrow.
EDIT: I added the "exercize" tag because hey, I hauled a freaking cord of wood over the course of three hours. Worked up a sweat and everything.
