Where Did the Week-end Go?
In a blink of an eye it's Monday morning again. How did that happen? I had very much planned to get in to work yesterday for a bit but it just didn't happen. The whole week-end was pretty hectic.
I started teaching piano again on Saturday. Just two kids: they're siblings and I go to their home for the lessons. It works out well for both me and the family.
Sunday was yoga, and then Iris had Nutcracker try-outs. She's been chosen to dance the role of Clara this time. I think she's pleased.
After that Joe and I along with a friend went off to pick cranberries. I don't think we could have asked for a more gorgeous fall day. The colours were magnificent, and we each came back with a big ice-cream container full of berries.
Back home for dinner (my trusty pressure cooker came through for us once again - this time it was chicken cacciatore). But then I discovered there wasn't much for our lunches, so Iris and I got to work in the kitchen. She made blueberry muffins (she doesn't like the way I make them - says they're 'too healthy') and I made peanut butter cookies, while at the same time throwing out advice to Alan who was searching for a topic for a history essay he has to write. He had to choose to write about an artifact. He was going to do something on William Wallace's 5 foot 2 inch sword (we saw it when we were in Stirling and he was very impressed) but there wasn't much on the Internet about it. He finally settled on the Declaration of Arbroath, the document that the Scottish nobles signed in 1320 as a way of trying to convince the Pope not to take England's claim on Scotland seriously. "As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule." You gotta love the Scots' passion (and naivete).
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