Vacation 2005.7
Jul. 19th, 2005 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeYesterday was again a day of limited activity, due mostly to the heat (96). In the morning we listened to the rest of the Phantom tapes and some music I wanted to share. Then we picked D. up at 1 p.m. (he'd been face-painted to become an elephant), dropped him off at Kindermusik, and looked at the rest of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fractal9091's Wisconsin pictures. They have these gorgeous dolomite cliffs along the lake-side of the islands. We returned to Kindermusik, then came home and collapsed into the lawnchairs while D. played in the sprinkler and his wading pool. We read (still Scandal Takes a Holiday for J. and Under the Tuscan Sun for me), snacked, and ate pizza around 5:15 p.m. (R. had arrived home early and hungry). Then we posed for photographs, which are all a bit curious-looking as D. retained some big smudges of grey face-paint.
Our movie for the day was Legally Blonde 2, which we'd fortunately heard was pretty bad, enabling us to enjoy it. After I put D. to bed, J. and I watched part of an X-Men cartoon, then most of the first episode of the four-part Earthsea dramatization, which neither of us had watched yet. Then came our evening outing, which I'll describe next; after that, DragonBall Z, a bit more of Earthsea to see what Roke looked like (disappointingly like Hogwart's instead of what I'd long held in my imagination), some of Win Ben Stein's Money, and an episode of Match Game, and then off to bed at midnight.
The evening outing: I wanted to look at constellations again with my mom's 1944 star chart, so we walked to the upper meadow in Tugman Park and found ourselves a good spot in the high grasses and looked a while. It wasn't as good a location for star-viewing as it had been in winter, and of course nowhere near as remarkable as Washington Island had been for J. a month ago. After a while I became fixated on identifying a persistent bird/creature sound to our west, and we went over to investigate. It was like a horse whinny but higher-pitched and quite regular, and turned out to be situated up in the west side of the park's great big-leafed maple. J's theory was that it was a bird who was so indifferent to our approach that it didn't vary its call even with us directly beneath; mine was that it was an owlet in its nest, not old enough to know to be quiet when people came. Shining the flashlight up in the tree didn't help. Then a large animal came bounding towards us from the road, which was a bit alarming as J. was determined to walk directly towards the road, but it was just a deer as I hoped and mostly expected. The outing left us with lots of burrs on our socks and shoes, and me with a mystery I hope to solve.
We got up at 4 a.m., and R. gotfractal9091 to the airport with considerably more margin than last year, so presumably he's on AmericaWest flight 841 at this very moment, perhaps midway across Tennessee. Hmm. And it looks like I've got about 45 minutes to finish waking up and get myself out the door to pick up D. for Kindermusik again, but after that I've got another afternoon of vacation! I'll spend it either in the sun, with Falco and Tuscany, or inside this wonderfully air-conditioned house (a rarity for Eugene), cleaning up and settling back into the usual rhythms of life. Thanks for visiting, fractal9091! I had such fun!
fractal9091's Wisconsin pictures. They have these gorgeous dolomite cliffs along the lake-side of the islands. We returned to Kindermusik, then came home and collapsed into the lawnchairs while D. played in the sprinkler and his wading pool. We read (still Scandal Takes a Holiday for J. and Under the Tuscan Sun for me), snacked, and ate pizza around 5:15 p.m. (R. had arrived home early and hungry). Then we posed for photographs, which are all a bit curious-looking as D. retained some big smudges of grey face-paint.Our movie for the day was Legally Blonde 2, which we'd fortunately heard was pretty bad, enabling us to enjoy it. After I put D. to bed, J. and I watched part of an X-Men cartoon, then most of the first episode of the four-part Earthsea dramatization, which neither of us had watched yet. Then came our evening outing, which I'll describe next; after that, DragonBall Z, a bit more of Earthsea to see what Roke looked like (disappointingly like Hogwart's instead of what I'd long held in my imagination), some of Win Ben Stein's Money, and an episode of Match Game, and then off to bed at midnight.
The evening outing: I wanted to look at constellations again with my mom's 1944 star chart, so we walked to the upper meadow in Tugman Park and found ourselves a good spot in the high grasses and looked a while. It wasn't as good a location for star-viewing as it had been in winter, and of course nowhere near as remarkable as Washington Island had been for J. a month ago. After a while I became fixated on identifying a persistent bird/creature sound to our west, and we went over to investigate. It was like a horse whinny but higher-pitched and quite regular, and turned out to be situated up in the west side of the park's great big-leafed maple. J's theory was that it was a bird who was so indifferent to our approach that it didn't vary its call even with us directly beneath; mine was that it was an owlet in its nest, not old enough to know to be quiet when people came. Shining the flashlight up in the tree didn't help. Then a large animal came bounding towards us from the road, which was a bit alarming as J. was determined to walk directly towards the road, but it was just a deer as I hoped and mostly expected. The outing left us with lots of burrs on our socks and shoes, and me with a mystery I hope to solve.
We got up at 4 a.m., and R. got
fractal9091 to the airport with considerably more margin than last year, so presumably he's on AmericaWest flight 841 at this very moment, perhaps midway across Tennessee. Hmm. And it looks like I've got about 45 minutes to finish waking up and get myself out the door to pick up D. for Kindermusik again, but after that I've got another afternoon of vacation! I'll spend it either in the sun, with Falco and Tuscany, or inside this wonderfully air-conditioned house (a rarity for Eugene), cleaning up and settling back into the usual rhythms of life. Thanks for visiting, fractal9091! I had such fun!