Weekend re-cap

Let's see, I know I did stuff this weekend, but I can't remember quite what it was...

Yummy Indian lunch with prunesnprisms and tarecat. Oh, yes, then the uber walk, where I went WAY far out of my way and stayed out for more than 45 minutes longer than I meant to walk, and completely exhausted myself. I was soooo tired, it took all my energy to fix Widget her dinner and feed her. Luckily, Wiley came home then and I handed him baby duty for a little while.

Saturday, Wiley went off for his frisbee game. Widget and I tried to go shopping to find the store we wanted not open yet, so we came home. She fussed about napping, and finally went down right after Wiley called to tell me he was in a car accident. Minor, luckily, with much less damage to our car than to her's. And entirely her fault too. Relaxed, cleaned, whatever till Wiley got home, then we headed out to shopping. The mall was good to me. Came home, vegged out, made a yummy chicken, brocolli and ziti dinner and watched Wiley played the new game he'd rented while I stitched.

Sunday was Dim Sum in the morning. We tried a new place. The food was definitely better, but the place was more crowded and much more noisy. This had an upside, as all the people around kept Widget MUCH more entertained than usual, which meant we had more fun too. And our party was small enough that we could talk over the din without too much trouble. The drive home was entertaining, as we tried to keep Widget from falling asleep so that she wouldn't pull her trick of sleeping for 15 minutes in the car then refusing to nap. She fell asleep for the last five minutes, but Wiley was able to get her upstairs without her waking up. And so I got to take a nap too. Isn't there something wonderful about Sunday afternoon naps. All peaceful and lazy feeling? Well, I planned on reading, really, but I fell asleep instead, and it felt so good.

After mommy and baby naps, we went out geocaching, which is going to get it's own entry because that's a tale to tell. Then home, and a nice light dinner to counteract the big filling Dim Sim meal of the late morning. Of course, my dinner (and evening) was ruined by a looooong pager call, but there will be more about that in a few minutes too.

I made a lot of progress on my current stitching project, which is making me feel confident about getting a bunch made for Christmas presents and the like. I made good progress on Great Expectation and got out and got a good bit of exercise. All in all, a good weekend.

Geocaching

So, scirocco and I tried to go geocaching yesterday. It was, well, fun, but non-fruitful. We stuck close to home for our first foray out, since there are two caches within a half mile of our house, in Great Esker Park. Because of where they're placed, and my loathing of the ReallyBigHills^TM we decided to drive to the base of the hill and go from there. This would (theoretically) allow us non-hill access to both caches. We'll leave out the part where Wiley didn't test out the two notation forms I had gotten for the data, and I didn't have the only form his GPS will take, and we had to haul all the way home to get the proper notation.

We get back, programmed GPS in hand. Really, for both of these caches, we barely even needed the GPS, since we've hiked these trails a bunch of times. We get to site number one (Graham's Cache), and can't find it anywhere. Now, Wiley's GPS doesn't go to four decimal places, so it's less exact than it could be. Still, I wouldn't have expected that finding a tupperware container would have been so difficult. But we bushwhacked around and around, and couldn't find it. Finally concluded (mistakenly, we now think) that the cache was somewhere we couldn't access at high tide, and decided to come back next week for it.

So, next we headed over the cache number two (Osprey Pole Cache). We could see the major location marker for this cache (that being the Osprey Pole), but I was skeptical we'd be able to reach it, since it was high tide, and getting there requires crossing high water when the tide is anything but out. If I'd wanted to brave the ReallyBigHill^TM, we could have approached it that way, but it was getting late in the day, and I was already pretty tired. So we hiked out over the lowland route to see if we could get accross, but found the water too high for my comfort level. Feet would have gotten soaked, even in good waterproof boots, and it's very slippery, we couldn't see our footing, and the water had quite a current to it. Had we been by ourselves, I probably would hve tried it, but I didn't want to risk Wiley going over while he had the baby on his back in the pack.

So, we turned around and headed home, cacheless and disappointed. But when we got home, I looked at the hint and the pictures for the first cache, and Wiley's pretty sure he walked right past it, based on the pictures. So, next weekend, we head out at LOW tide, and try to find them again. Then on to the one in Hull, since the World's End cache seems to have been removed.

OH! And I got the best bonuus ever trying to find the first cache. A very cool small piece of driftwood that I brought home to be a little mantlepiece sculpture! I would never have found this just walking the trails, as it was pretty far off the trail in some marsh grass. So, in the end, it was all worth it. Of course, the new green-head bites I got weren't.

Another random finding

This weekend, I discovered that the holes in my ears (holes two and three, for those of you keeping track) that I thought were closed up aren't. I was very much pleased to find this, as I was never very happy that I'd let them get closed up in the first place. I'm puzzled, since I don't think I've ever known anyone's holes to spontaneously re-open, and I really tried to get these back open when I first discovered that they seemed to be closed.

Either way, I'm psyched!

I forgot

to post about our CSA take this past week. Bad me.

It was smallish this week.

• head of lettuce
• fresh garlic
• bunch of kale
• beets
• basil
• more damn cilantro
• potatoes
• carrots

I think that might actually be it. I feel like I'm forgetting something, but it can't be that important. Once again, everything was of a very high quality, and we've eaten almost all of it but the kale, which I'm not sure what to do with it.

And, even better, Miss lorac went blueberry picking yesterday, and brought us a bag full of fresh blueberrires. Even better, Wiley doesn't really like blueberries, so these are ALL MINE. Well, after i share with Widget and imagine77.