This last weekend we took the drive up to Pop-Pop & Linny’s hobby farm. We hadn’t been there since they bought Clover, a Jersey heifer. Plus, we didn’t have any snow cover down here. What’s a winter without sledding?(Click on the slideshow to see the photos at Picasa.)
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We go to the Yorktown Grange Fair every year as the final fair of our four-fair summer finale—one each weekend for four weeks: Hamburg, Brooklyn, Woodstock, Yorktown. We finally got organized this year and Owen made something to enter in the Yorktown Grange Fair’s Lego competition. Some fairs like Woodstock say absolutely NO LEGOS. But some fairs encourage Legos and appreciate the wide range of creative work that kids can do with the blocks. Owen made a heliport and helicopter for the Scene competition and won Best Scene for his age group which actually starts at age 6.
Meanwhile Joel decided to try the watermelon eating contest. One guy has won it for seven or eight years straight and lots of people tried to oust him, but he managed yet another win. Joel had fun and got a nice participant’s ribbon.
Evie with her Mister Softee cone watching the BMX stunt show. It was a hot day and we all needed ice cream.
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This year Joel got really serious about gathering wild raspberries. In years past he’d bike past a raspberry patch and fill up a water bottle, but this year he drove to the patches—mainly found by the side of the road on reservoir land—and filled up cake pans. He probably picked over 10 pounds of these amazingly tiny, fragile berries. We stayed up late several nights making jam, raspberry ice cream, two batches of chocolate raspberry ice cream, chocolate raspberry tart, and then tossed them into cereal, too. The season is short but these berries are so much better than anything you’d buy in a store.
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Joel has been thinking about making doughnuts for a long time and his recent trip to Seattle’s Top Pot really but the bee in his bonnet. Last night he made the batter and this morning he fried them. They were awesome.
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Today I had surgery (ambulatory surgery) to remove the plate and screws that were used to patch me together after being run over by a car in í97.
The surgery went quickly and was so uneventful that I slept through it. Overall, I only spent about three hours at the center. So far I’m not having problems with nausea, or having a great deal of pain. I have a prescription for Vicodin and am taking half a pill at a time to avoid side-effects. The only problem I’ve noticed is a dry throat, so that’s not too bad.
It’s kind of creepy to think that there are seven holes in my clavicle right now. It’s a good thing I like milk!
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