Ah, young minds are great.

My pool doesn't open until 8 today! Glad I checked.

Tub had actually drained this morning, hooray! Drain is still super slow, but I think just continuing with this same stuff for a while might be the way to go. Maybe I should be more concerned about adding helpful bacteria to the sewage system, but I'm not. I'm sure there's a lot of the unhelpful kind in there.

My pool opens at 7 today. Which is fine, but blah.

Reading Skulduggery Pleasant books... on Dark Days now.

Ah, young minds are great.

It is true. I'm thrilled to see him so excited by science. (Or, indeed, Science!)

Reading Skulduggery Pleasant books... on Dark Days now.

That's the one we quoted from in our wedding vows. Seriously.

Have fun on your travels, meara!

Today I'm hoping to get some yard-long beans from my CSA into a salt solution for fermenting, to bake a pound cake for trifle tomorrow, and vacuum my apartment.

I've been marathoning X-Files episodes lately, so I'm happy to see that Duchovney is in a new show this fall called Aquarius. [link]

Timelies all!

Hot and humid here.

Not too hot-hot (83F here) but dew-point is in the 70s, so it's unpleasant.

Looks like a nice day here. Danced the night away at the Otter Lake fire department annual Labor Day bash. They do hats and noise makers and new years stuff since no one is around on NYE. Today is a family picnic.

Good day for exploring, but the bulk of the tourist crowd will be gone tomorrow so that makes more sense.

Are yard long beans actually a yard long or is that just a kind of bean?

I had much better luck with directions (even randomly picking the correct of six exits from the metro!) this afternoon. Went to a Benedictine monastery started in the 1300s. Very neat (also, only $2.50 to enter). Now having a slice of cake and hot chocolate back at the hotel (yay executive floor lounge!)

Class in the pool for the next 45 minutes. Let's see how long I can spend in the shower, sauna, and steam room...