Traeger Gator sounds great!

Kings wear rings, baby!

Spent the day with my daughter. Target for errands, she helped pic out our new bath mat. Then to Whole Foods to have lunch with her mother. That went well. Then back home and met our next door neighbor. She's a curator for the NC botanical gardens, so that cool. We met her two dogs as well. Overall a great day. She's with her mother next weekend and I think I'll be building a little water play table for the back porch since its warm enough for that sort of thing now. Single parenting is tiring but overall I'm getting everything done. Abi rolls with the punches well too. I forgot to get something for dinner and she was fine with us popping out to the store to get it. No complaints. Great kid.

First soccer tournament of the season. A much improved team this season. 1-0-1 so far. I think we are going to change Peter's middle name to Bastian.

Edited April 8, 201313 yr by morphsci

Spent the day with my daughter. Target for errands, she helped pic out our new bath mat. Then to Whole Foods to have lunch with her mother. That went well. Then back home and met our next door neighbor. She's a curator for the NC botanical gardens, so that cool. We met her two dogs as well. Overall a great day. She's with her mother next weekend and I think I'll be building a little water play table for the back porch since its warm enough for that sort of thing now. Single parenting is tiring but overall I'm getting everything done. Abi rolls with the punches well too. I forgot to get something for dinner and she was fine with us popping out to the store to get it. No complaints. Great kid.

 

That's great to hear Stephen!

That's great to hear Stephen!

 

This.  I had the kids solo for most of the weekend (the wife was ill) and it is during times like this that I often think that single parents, the good ones anyway, are more remarkable than they get credit for.  Enjoy your time away too, Stephen, and don't dwell on what you're not doing next weekend.

That's great to hear Stephen!

 

 

This.  I had the kids solo for most of the weekend (the wife was ill) and it is during times like this that I often think that single parents, the good ones anyway, are more remarkable than they get credit for.  Enjoy your time away too, Stephen, and don't dwell on what you're not doing next weekend.

 

Thanks to you both.  Worry not Nate.  I'm actually looking forward to the break.  It's a lot of work.  I'm happy to have it mind you, but a break would be nice.  Next weekend will be filled with fun stuff... Friends on friday night and some fun plans for the rest of the weekend.

Helped my sisters clean my mom's apartment some more.

Hiromi is insane!

It was a fine day for alligator hunting watching.  Went to Brazos Bend State Park.  It was a gorgeous day and there were tons of gators out (I would guess we saw 20-30 and we weren't there that long). The turtles and birds were great too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiromi is insane!

Hopefully in a good way.

my bike would ride nicely over a gator

Mine too!

 

Nice outing, Shelly, and nice wildlife pics, particularly the last one of the ginger yeti.

 

Shelly, if you really want a lot of visitors, you should talk about the attractive lady walking in front of the Ginger Avenger.  It would be best if you made something up like she is available and digs men with large ... headphones.

Hopefully in a good way.

 

Yes, insanely good  - Amazing actually! We all (girlfriend and family) enjoyed it (read: were blown away). The drummer and bassist were no slouches either.

 

The jazz center was very nice also. I look forward to seeing more shows there. 

Nice outing, Shelly

 

Wait, what? Shelly outed Colin? 

 

Like that's big news.

Yes, insanely good  - Amazing actually! We all (girlfriend and family) enjoyed it (read: were blown away). The drummer and bassist were no slouches either.

 

The jazz center was very nice also. I look forward to seeing more shows there. 

 

I'm psyched, I got tix to one of the Boston shows this weekend.  Looking very forward to it!

...and it is during times like this that I often think that single parents, the good ones anyway, are more remarkable than they get credit for.  Enjoy your time away too, Stephen, and don't dwell on what you're not doing next weekend.

 

This.

 

I took a day off and brought my daughter to see her doctor since she started showing some symptoms of strep yesterday - right after 10 days of antibiotics she was taking for strep ended.  They couldn't do a rapid strep test this time around so we won't know if she still has strep until Wednesday, but considering her daycare had 11 absences today due to strep, we're not hopeful.  Thankfully, I don't have one (yet) so I can go to work tomorrow while my wife takes the day off.

Edited April 8, 201313 yr by Salt Peanuts

Assigned my last HW assignment of the year!!!  

I'm psyched, I got tix to one of the Boston shows this weekend.  Looking very forward to it!

Enjoy!

We noticed recently that we had a new fruit tree in our backyard.  I realized today that it is a guava tree!  Now, if we can just get more fruit growing than the squirrels can steal, we'll be in good shape. 

Kewl!

We got one in our backyard that yields four or five pounds of fruit each year.

Just love bringing in a handful of fresh picked guavas and leaving them on the kitchen countertop.

The aroma is fantastic!

You should learn to make stewed guava. It is one of the things I miss a lot from my carribean youth and I still love it whenever I'm home.

 

Example recipe: http://its-our-life-for-six.blogspot.com/2009/11/guavasguavasand-more-guavas.html

 

Though my family's recipe is slightly different in that we strain off the seeds.

Shelly - have you searched cocktail recipes for Guava? Bet there are a bunch.