Weekend report

[beetiger]

I did some stuff. Now I will tell you about it.

Saturday bard_bloom, projectmothra, and I went to the Acrobats and Animals show at van Cortlandt Manor. Unlike last time I went, two years ago, when it was hot and sticky and I had a sort of confused, whiny toddler in tow, this time I had a cool, lovely day and a much more interested four year old in tow. Saw random old mommyfriends whom I've been out of touch with. Saw some songbirds completely harass a ground hawk brought in by a birds of prey show by buzzing its head from behind and yelling a lot. Saw a sleight-of-hand magician/slackrope walker who looked like he had been doing the same act for 50 years, and who was somehow utterly charming.

Saturday night bard_bloom and I actually went on an actual dinner date for the first time in forever or so, having finally taken a friend up on a favor she owed us and was paying back in babysitting. A branch of the Melting Pot fondue restaurant opened locally recently, and unlike when we went out with ladyperegrine there in Florida earlier in the spring, this time I did not suddenly realize i had a stomach bug halfway through, and also the kitchen in White Plains seems to have had a lighter hand with the spices than the kitchen in Orlando did. So that was nice.

bard_bloom's parents showed up Sunday, and we took them along to projectmothra's first trip to MoMA, which went quite well. There was a long corridor lit in a very narrow range of yellow light that seemed to turn everyone the shades of a sepia toned photograph. And there was gelato from il laboratorio del gelato there, so I had grapefruit campari sorbet in the sclupture garden, which I can't argue with.

I made the smoked chocolate cupcakes with sweet corn frosting that were featured on Cupcake Project this week. They are bizarre but good. I should not eat extra sweet corn cream cheese frosting with a spoon.

Also, I have been playing Wii Fit. Virtual hula hooping is way more fun than it has any right to be. And it says "That's obese!" in such a cute voice after it measures my weight every day, it kind of makes me giggle.

Today we went to a little Audobon sanctuary that I'd never noticed before. It was a wide well-marked trail, a loop of just over a mile that went around a pond and through some woods and meadows and past a lot of little stone walls. Nice, and quiet, since it's a bit off the beaten track. It would probably be a good place to go meditate if all the areas just off the trails were not completely loaded with poison ivy.

I just realized that I did not put any of the fun and useful links you might expect into this entry. But I am tired, and all of you know how to use Google.

Love to you all.

Comments

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

If, from the balcony of the giftshop at Van Cortlandt Manor, you gaze out across the Croton River, to the spot where the marsh meets the Southern Bank, you can see the house I grew up in, and that my Brother still owns.

[rowyn]

What does a slackrope walker do?

Smoked chocolate and sweet corn frosting sounds ... fascinating. I'm sure I don't NEED to makes this, but now I totally WANT to. @_@

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Like a tightrope walker, only the rope goes in a U shape between the poles. He walked on a little wheel and danced around and juggled and stuff.

And now that I'm not feeling so link-lazy, here's the recipe.