when the electronic games are not an option...
funny thing happened when we spent the weekend off-grid, the two older kids played TOGETHER. I went down early, kat had some business to attend to while the youngest caught a long nap at home. while I worked, I told the kids to occupy themselves, but not with nintendo or iphone. a short while later I heard laughter!? they were playing with a round inflatable thing (ball) and a hula hoop.
I even overheard "oh, no! the ball went on the roof!" then I heard it roll off, followed by another round of actual laughter! I don't think I've ever heard them say anything about a ball/frisbee/kite landing on the roof. I thought that sort of thing only happened 30 years ago...
anyhow, they had actual real fun and managed to do so without i-devices
I made a tool shed that piggy backs off the bathroom. the cabins are so much nicer when they are not pulling double duty as storage sheds. made mostly from scraps. I also made a roof between the bathroom and long cabin. this will be the shower area.
(larger pic here) the kids enjoyed the camp fire
starting to resemble a real bathroom
made a sleeping loft on the tall cabin.
really starting to feel like a second home!
we even took our bikes for a nice ride around our wimbelrey neighborhood sunday morning. like a mini-vacation
saturday night.... one of our favorite restaurants,
we ate at the leaning pear saturday night. they have an $8 corkage fee so I took a bottle of kat's favorite wine, campus oaks zinfandel (lodi). while I loved the 2005 vintage, appreciated the 2006 vintage, I find the 07 to be quite the fruit bomb. I found the intense raspberry hints to be overpowering for a meal. maybe when paired with certain cheeses, but not nearly as utilitarian as previous vintages. kat was happy.
in shade tree mechanic world....
still prepping the porsche 911 for sale, the battery strap broke and I was struggling for a clean method of install. I said to myself "if I only had one piece of metal that bend like this and then like so and...." I love to do my own custom fabrication. after days of head scratching, it only took about fifteen minutes to fabricate my own bracket and it installed first try. works just how I imagined it.
oh yeah, I am also doing body work on the vintage bmw... the big dents have been removed, now to remove all the trim and glass to prep the body for paint. not easy to do with a troublesome 2.5 y.o. at home, I get an hour here and there, but I really need a few solid days, a helper would be nice too.