Friday, July 16, 2004
Slow Night
Got home from work and finished installing Patty's tetherball pole. She discovered tetherball at camp and loved it, so Sue had to immediately rush out and buy her a pole. Which meant that I got home from work last night, dug a hole, mixed two bags of concrete and tried to get the pole sleeve level. Then I went and worked out.
Anyway, final installation pretty much consisted of slipping the pole into the sleeve, tying the rope to the pole and tying the rope to the ball. It was surprisingly hard to remember how to tie a bowline, but I dug it up from somewhere. We played a few games, but it's very hard for me to stay out in the yard at the moment. The mosquitoes are the worst I can remember. After 10 minutes my ankles are covered in itchy bites. This irritates me, a lot.
Grilled brat burgers on the Foreman, heated up some leftover rice. Sue stopped at Gallerein's. Without a doubt, the best corn of the year so far. Yellow, which I don't like quite as much as the white. But this corn was perfectly tender and very very sweet. I love corn. I'll eat corn straight out of the can (preferably with a little hot sauce). Fresh local corn picked today is something I look forward to all year.
Watched Airplane after dinner with Patty, mainly to get her to watch it with me. She stayed for about half, and laughed very hard in spots -- pretty much where I thought she would.
Gotta get up early in the a.m. to pick Lucy up from camp. She will probably be mad because I didn't e-mail her every day. Oh well.
Anyway, final installation pretty much consisted of slipping the pole into the sleeve, tying the rope to the pole and tying the rope to the ball. It was surprisingly hard to remember how to tie a bowline, but I dug it up from somewhere. We played a few games, but it's very hard for me to stay out in the yard at the moment. The mosquitoes are the worst I can remember. After 10 minutes my ankles are covered in itchy bites. This irritates me, a lot.
Grilled brat burgers on the Foreman, heated up some leftover rice. Sue stopped at Gallerein's. Without a doubt, the best corn of the year so far. Yellow, which I don't like quite as much as the white. But this corn was perfectly tender and very very sweet. I love corn. I'll eat corn straight out of the can (preferably with a little hot sauce). Fresh local corn picked today is something I look forward to all year.
Watched Airplane after dinner with Patty, mainly to get her to watch it with me. She stayed for about half, and laughed very hard in spots -- pretty much where I thought she would.
Gotta get up early in the a.m. to pick Lucy up from camp. She will probably be mad because I didn't e-mail her every day. Oh well.
// posted by Frank L. Dempsey @ 10:29 PM 
