Ah, Saturday at last!
Sharon/WO, I'm glad you have got a friendlier venue for your ww meetings. It's difficult when you try to double up like that. I think I mentioned the situation a few months ago in our village, when one of our artists needed to use our large community hall to put together and finish the very large mural he, his wife and their friend had been working on. There is a church that meets in that hall also, and at first he had been asked to take the mural apart and put it away for Sunday, so it wouldn't be in the way for church. But they got around it when the pastor specifically asked him to not only leave the mural up (thereby saving a lot of trouble and worry over possible damage) and to also talk to the congregation about the painting and what it was for.
Unfortunately, a weekly ww meeting loses novelty value quickly!
And about cookies - I made three different batches of cookie dough on Tuesday (in between nursing invalids) and every so often I get it out and make another tray of biscuits. I have many different shapes of cutters and like to mix and match the colours/flavours for some fun effects. I've left 'bits' out but add them to the top before cooking.
Our Saturday - I had to keep difficult child 3 home from the trains today so he could finish his Geography exam. We checked out a local garage sale first, I got a couple of good kitchen items for difficult child 1 & girlfriend and a lovely bromeliad plant for me. And a book about train journeys for husband, he's already well into reading it and he only started when he got home!
After he got home he & I went to check out the art exhibition in the school hall (I always come home and want to CREATE!) then dropped in on mother in law. She hasn't seen the exhibition yet. I had earlier walked to mother in law's but she was out - on the way back I chatted with the artist neighbour (wife - the one who worked on the mural I just mentioned) and she gave me some loofah seeds which I immediately planted out.
Tonight on sunset I was picking some herbs when I heard some rustling in the peach tree - a small possum. I had a closer look and realised it was young, its mother nearby. I called difficult child 3 and he spent the next hour and half photographing this mother possum and baby as well as a spider spinning its web. We never get to harvest fruit off this peach tree - between the possums and the parrots, the tree gets stripped. But I really love our Brushtail Possums - they are beautiful and even the wild ones will eat from your fingers. Although not tonight, I think the mother was more nervous, looking after her baby. I understand your Opossums aren't considered pretty or popular - not like our babies.
Tomorrow is the school fair, the final day of the art exhibition. easy child 2/difficult child 2 has her first stilts gig in 20 months helping to promote the event. I'm on duty (unpaid) as her walker, along with difficult child 3. I emailed her to make sure she would get here in plenty of time to have a quick practice and make sure her costume still fits - her reply was that she will try to get here early "so I can knock the spiders out of my stilts, at least."
We have a busy week coming up, everything is getting timetabled tightly. Publicity photo with difficult child 3 on Monday afternoon, MRI Monday night, Tuesday checking out reception places with easy child 2/difficult child 2 plus interview for part-time circus performer's job then evening the final wedding planning session for difficult child 1. I've got some school phone conferences pencilled in for Wednesday and Thursday as well as X-rays on Wednesday and cleaning on Thursday. Somewhere in there I need to do more sewing on my petticoat for the wedding. I also have to make another litre of Bearnaise Sauce - I meant to do it tonight but got distracted by the possum family. Hmm, maybe I can start it tonight...
Sounds like bounce back time. Maybe I'll have a multivitamin before I get going in the morning...
Enjoy your Saturday.
Marg