Another week gone

All the shopping done, and we've settled back into our usual boring routine.  Amber dropped the girls off last night, as she was going to a concert with a friend from work and Darren wasn't home.  Jessica is just back from spending a week at Caddy Lake girl Guide Camp.  she had a special camp blanket with her, and a number  of badges she earned, while there, to sew on to it.  It was a fleece blanket so we decided to fuse the badges on, to hold them in place, while she sewed.  Cutting the fusible web required tracing circles the right size, so i showed both girls how to use a compass to draw them instead of tracing around the badges.  (It wasn't any quicker)  Jess had just got them cut out when the phone rang to tell us Darren was on the way to pick them up. so the web was quickly fused to the backs of the badges, everything packed up and a quick end to the evening.

Thinking about it, my memories of Caddy Lake revolve far more around spending weekends down there during spring work parties, than my actual time as a camper.  Jessica's big memory was everyone having to move into the Lodge from the tents, to sleep, one night when there was a severe thunder storm warning, and one of her friends catching a fish--evidently the first one ever caught there in 60 years.

It's been very humid here the last few days, but this morning David felt the need to cut the grass.  Once he got out there he realized that it was too wet to cut.  He came in and called me to the window to point out the huge ( yes, huge) mushrooms growing in the grass near the birdbath.  This is the same birdbath that was so damaged that it had to go, and for which Lion was evicted.  Evidently you can repair the cracks with something to be found in the garage, so the birdbath stays for another year.

This afternoon is another meeting of my ATC Trading Group.  I can almost taste that Chicken Souvlaki now.