Pretty slow week as the rain continues to dream of being piled like snow. Fortunately the rain was not snow as we had over 3 inches of rain during a three-day soaking rain. We stayed busy albeit mostly indoor events. We did have to cancel our camping plans, but that too was clearly for the best. We played some cards and lady luck was shining on Sophia and when Merrick finally thought he had a winning hand of three aces, Sophia came snarffed up the pot with a straight. The kids brought pumpkins home from their Friday afternoon field trip and after soaking them in the rain on Saturday, they were able to gut and carve them on Sunday. We did try to roast some of the seeds, but unfortunately they dumped off the cookie sheet and spilled all over the preheated oven. Saturday Sophia did don all her rain gear and go pick the last of the chocolate mint in the flower beds. She has been using it for evening tea and given the massive amount that she picked we also decide she should take a mint tea bath. We piled a large amount of mint into an old nylon and steeped it in her bath. It was a quality menthol type pore cleansing bath, perfect for a rainy afternoon. The rainy weekend was interspersed with some cooking including ginger cookies and banana bread. We also added (and by we I mean Sophia and I) garlic sauteed octopus to our gustatory digressions. This is not a smell that leaves a closed up house very easily. We did have a couple of nerf gun fights, a requirement. Sophia had noticed that all the girl spies in the movies are well dressed so so had to wear her dress and carry her extra, actually all, bullets in her matching clutch purse. Then grandma Nancy came over for a couple of days to go to school with the kids. They had grandparents' day on consecutive days so the fortunate kids were able to have grandma around and go to school with them. Everyone seemed to pretty smile despite the rain.
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