Lemonade
What do you do when you miss the cutoff for check-in for your flight to Club Med by 5 minutes, and have to wait until tomorrow or possibly the next day to get there? Make those sunglass cases you really need, of course. And try to keep Tilda from going crazy.
Immune systems are there to be challenged
This week I decided to pull out the old video camera, which I haven’t used for a while because occasionally it says “Press Reset to Operate” and then, more ominously, “To Service”. It works well with the new tapes I bought, and then Google told me that the old tapes would also work if I [...]
First piano recital
Tilda had her first piano recital last night, along with a group of kids who take music lessons through the school. The recital was voluntary, and the kids chose whether to participate and what they would play. Tilda chose ‘Swans on the Lake’, a two-handed piece that she taught herself how to play, even though [...]
Tweaking
I’m enjoying the rearranged computer/craft/music room. Like the bedroom closet in Poltergeist (link given for my many scaredy-cat friends who would never have seen it), this room is sucking in more and more of my favourite things. That’s a comfy chair for small handcrafts, taking advantage of the natural light. It’s also a comfy chair [...]
Somebody stop me
Even though I completely rearranged the house recently, it seems that I hadn’t had my fill of assembling furniture, disassembling furniture, or single-handedly moving furniture. I was not happy with the new computer room: Partly I was annoyed that there wasn’t enough floor space when I got the ironing board out, and I was always [...]