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Sun Basket arrived. That was nice. We had the deconstructed samosas; they are tasty. I should probably just learn how to make some version of this that is closer to the real thing.
JH arrived with the delightful picture of the two thorned twigs, one wrapping around the other. I paid her. R. put the print in one of the boxes from the photos from JD. I walked around the block with JH. She is an absolute delight to talk to. I have always really felt like she is My People and despite a gap in meeting in person of years, I continue to feel just the same. I mooched a frame from one of the holiday Hilda’s (back into that box from JD — proving to be very useful! and put the box into the flat file) and got JH’s photo up on the wall where the Montmartre print R. gave me has been for a long time. Montmartre print went up into my office.
While JH and I continued chatting in the driveway, M., arrived for our walk. JH headed home — hopefully we will walk again soon! — and M. and I did our walk, then had a brief indoor visit (about 20 minutes, I kept my mask on, no one else in the room with us. M. went into the kitchen briefly, where R. was masked).
We did all the sheets and got them back on the beds.
R. and T. got the lights off the tree, put the lights away and took the tree out. We swept and vacuumed. Last night, the kids and I got the decorations boxed up. We’ve been putting away holiday legos and holiday Build-a-Bear stuffies and similar as well.
We played Exploding Kittens.
We did Family Zoom.
Tomorrow, school starts. I should probably go do some test zoom with the kids to make sure everything is still working.
ETA: NERGC is virtual, so I registered for the main track, and also for the DNA extra. That’s in April, so it’ll be Roots Tech in February (already registered — that one is free, if you are on the fence about doing online genealogy conferences, it would be a plausible starting point) and then NERGC in April.
I tried to book Suites by Hershey and failed — I have booked it in the past through Choice Hotel’s Ascend Collection, but cannot find a way to do it currently, and there are no open slots through RCI (yet?). Not sure what to do about that.
I looked around at pantry storage ideas. I was looking for an updated version of the pull out / tip out wooden bin lined with metal for storing flour / grain / beans. Total failure. Lots of plastic and some mason jar systems, all completely the wrong scale and absolutely not what I want. *sigh* Oddly, as I started to describe this process to R. he immediately started describing what I was looking for before I even got to that part of the story. He lived in a place with a renovated kitchen where they had stored the old cabinets in the basement and the old cabinets had that feature. So I did not hallucinate this (a version pops up at the end of These Happy Golden Years, I think), and we are totally in agreement that we want this without even ever having discussed it. Which, honestly, is super cool and mildly eerie.
We do like using a library style ladder in a tall pantry, and are not opposed to the chandelier in the pantry that I saw. But fucking give me some bins that will store 25-50 pounds of dry goods, please!
JH arrived with the delightful picture of the two thorned twigs, one wrapping around the other. I paid her. R. put the print in one of the boxes from the photos from JD. I walked around the block with JH. She is an absolute delight to talk to. I have always really felt like she is My People and despite a gap in meeting in person of years, I continue to feel just the same. I mooched a frame from one of the holiday Hilda’s (back into that box from JD — proving to be very useful! and put the box into the flat file) and got JH’s photo up on the wall where the Montmartre print R. gave me has been for a long time. Montmartre print went up into my office.
While JH and I continued chatting in the driveway, M., arrived for our walk. JH headed home — hopefully we will walk again soon! — and M. and I did our walk, then had a brief indoor visit (about 20 minutes, I kept my mask on, no one else in the room with us. M. went into the kitchen briefly, where R. was masked).
We did all the sheets and got them back on the beds.
R. and T. got the lights off the tree, put the lights away and took the tree out. We swept and vacuumed. Last night, the kids and I got the decorations boxed up. We’ve been putting away holiday legos and holiday Build-a-Bear stuffies and similar as well.
We played Exploding Kittens.
We did Family Zoom.
Tomorrow, school starts. I should probably go do some test zoom with the kids to make sure everything is still working.
ETA: NERGC is virtual, so I registered for the main track, and also for the DNA extra. That’s in April, so it’ll be Roots Tech in February (already registered — that one is free, if you are on the fence about doing online genealogy conferences, it would be a plausible starting point) and then NERGC in April.
I tried to book Suites by Hershey and failed — I have booked it in the past through Choice Hotel’s Ascend Collection, but cannot find a way to do it currently, and there are no open slots through RCI (yet?). Not sure what to do about that.
I looked around at pantry storage ideas. I was looking for an updated version of the pull out / tip out wooden bin lined with metal for storing flour / grain / beans. Total failure. Lots of plastic and some mason jar systems, all completely the wrong scale and absolutely not what I want. *sigh* Oddly, as I started to describe this process to R. he immediately started describing what I was looking for before I even got to that part of the story. He lived in a place with a renovated kitchen where they had stored the old cabinets in the basement and the old cabinets had that feature. So I did not hallucinate this (a version pops up at the end of These Happy Golden Years, I think), and we are totally in agreement that we want this without even ever having discussed it. Which, honestly, is super cool and mildly eerie.
We do like using a library style ladder in a tall pantry, and are not opposed to the chandelier in the pantry that I saw. But fucking give me some bins that will store 25-50 pounds of dry goods, please!