Friday, July 11, 2008

The Latest

A small hodgepodge of pictures...

July 8: Here's Roz, stuck in her shirt. I buttoned the top button before I put it away and she's still trying to figure out buttons... couldn't quite get her head through the neckhole. There's that scabby little nose, which is almost better now.

Yesterday we did the Braid-y thing. I put Roz's hair up in six braids all over her head and did mine in eight or nine (I lost count), then put all of them but the front three up in a clip in back. It felt good having my hair out of the way.

Today I made this flag for Cub Scout Day Camp next week. Our group is the "Hermit Crabs" - trying to find anything with a hermit crab on it was quite the challenge. We bought "watery" fabric, sequinned iron-on letters, an iron-on rhinestone skull and crossbones (their theme is "X Marks the Spot"), and found a picture of a hermit crab online to color and mount on with that sticky spongeboard stuff. Then, of course, we have to have the googly eyes. I'm pretty happy with it but I wish the crab looked as good as the rest of the flag. It hangs from a dowel at the top. I still need to attach a tie so we can hang it up at camp, and I'm thinking of possibly painting the dowel black and attaching black tassels or something - but I've been to day camp enough times to know that the flag gets dropped in the dirt at least twice a day for five days, so there's only so much geegaw you should put on it. (Click on the picture to see the details)

I still have more reunion pictures to post, but I needed a break. I took over 100 pictures (counting the ones of Union Cemetery).

UPDATE: Friday Night Date Report - we went to the T-Mobile store by the airport to return Bri's loaner phone, then drove to Portland and parked at Lloyd Center. We rode the MAX downtown and had dinner at his favorite wings place. Then it was off to Borders - which, even for downtown Portland, has a deplorable lack of homemaking books. We took MAX up to Pioneer Courthouse Square and enjoyed the lovely summer evening. I gave a panhandler $1 (which I never do).

We rode back to the car with a couple of really loud annoying drunks, drove down Glisan to 205, and went to Albertson's for cold drinks and cheese sticks. Tomorrow we're meeting Mom and Bob in The Dalles to have lunch and pick up Bella, and our car doesn't have air conditioning, so we wanted stuff to drink on our hot ride home. Then we came home, and made the kids clean up the very cluttered floor. YAY!!!!