Just a week in summer
Jun. 13th, 2019 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miladygreyHighly recommend the Brimming Horn viking party, and Brimming Horn in general for anyone who ends up in lower Delaware and likes mead. We had roast pig and wasabi potato salad, tried strawberry-basil mead and orange-cardamom mead and straight honey mead and something made with pomegranate that I would sip like Persephone on her throne. Despite our attempts to be strong, we walked out with a handmade necklace (mine) from Rigr Crafts and a print by the person who does the meadery's logo (Yeats). Definitely worth the hour-long flat drive through not-all-that-scenic lower DE.
Poor Aveline learned yesterday that her grandmother passed. It's not precisely unexpected--she was quite elderly, and had descended into weary readiness to go be with God the last few years. Still, what a way to almost-finish a vacation. She'll be going straight from the dock to her family in the Midwest, stay out there for the funeral, and be back the middle of next week. Most people have been very understanding. One client responded with "So that's why she didn't respond to my three emails yesterday! Have her partner call me, these issues I'm having can't wait!" Madam, I saw the email. Your issues are about further ways to annoy your ex and make your two-year-old like you better than him. I politely hate you right now, on Aveline's behalf.
The tomatoes are ripe! At least some of them are. Last night we had scrambled eggs and cheese, with basil and chives FROM OUR GARDEN, garnished with a handful of orange cherry tomatoes that were sweet as candy. Yeats is 100% ready to become a full-time tomato farmer.
Yeats purchased a new-to-us video game, is enjoying it thus far greatly, and was sitting with me while I walked through chargen and the tutorial phases last night.
Yeats: You can pick one of these pregen characters, or create your own.
Me: I like the stabby former-slave elf...
Character: I am a Lady Bard who may in fact be possessed by a demon, but I have it perfectly under IA IA FTHAGN control! I also am set to default to snark, and have a cool talent that allows me to absorb spilled blood to regain HP!
Me: ...my new best friend.
Yeats: I knew you'd like her.
Reading Log: How to Marry a Werewolf by Gail Carriger; An Almond for a Parrot by Wray Delaney; The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran; Hearts West by Chris Enss; Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (how much do I love Crowley and Aziraphale? let me count the ways); The Triumphant by Lesley Livingston; Woman 99 by Greer Macallister; Defy Me by Tahereh Mafi; Sherwood by Meagan Spooner
Poor Aveline learned yesterday that her grandmother passed. It's not precisely unexpected--she was quite elderly, and had descended into weary readiness to go be with God the last few years. Still, what a way to almost-finish a vacation. She'll be going straight from the dock to her family in the Midwest, stay out there for the funeral, and be back the middle of next week. Most people have been very understanding. One client responded with "So that's why she didn't respond to my three emails yesterday! Have her partner call me, these issues I'm having can't wait!" Madam, I saw the email. Your issues are about further ways to annoy your ex and make your two-year-old like you better than him. I politely hate you right now, on Aveline's behalf.
The tomatoes are ripe! At least some of them are. Last night we had scrambled eggs and cheese, with basil and chives FROM OUR GARDEN, garnished with a handful of orange cherry tomatoes that were sweet as candy. Yeats is 100% ready to become a full-time tomato farmer.
Yeats purchased a new-to-us video game, is enjoying it thus far greatly, and was sitting with me while I walked through chargen and the tutorial phases last night.
Yeats: You can pick one of these pregen characters, or create your own.
Me: I like the stabby former-slave elf...
Character: I am a Lady Bard who may in fact be possessed by a demon, but I have it perfectly under IA IA FTHAGN control! I also am set to default to snark, and have a cool talent that allows me to absorb spilled blood to regain HP!
Me: ...my new best friend.
Yeats: I knew you'd like her.
Reading Log: How to Marry a Werewolf by Gail Carriger; An Almond for a Parrot by Wray Delaney; The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran; Hearts West by Chris Enss; Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (how much do I love Crowley and Aziraphale? let me count the ways); The Triumphant by Lesley Livingston; Woman 99 by Greer Macallister; Defy Me by Tahereh Mafi; Sherwood by Meagan Spooner
