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.

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[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.