Gud, if you don't get the kids to help you cook, et cetera, they're not learning important life skills. (Ideally, your wife should be doing that as well -- why isn't she?) Yes, it's sometimes more work to get the kids to "help" but they're going to end up with pink underwear at college the first time they do laundry on their own -- or worse than that.

(Hive mind: what Britcom had the Chore Wheel?)

Yay, kitten!

YAY new cat!

I'm text banking for a candidate in MS tonight.

ANNND the new foster and my dog are actually playing. it is the first time I have ever seen my dog play like this.

KITTEN!!

Pulled both ACs, only thought I was gonna die once (next year, getting another human to help, seriously) and then replaced the teetering rolling rack in the closet with 3 new rods(I love my mitre saw, even if for not mitreing) and now I can fit both ACs in the closet in the off-season! And I need to go through the clothes I transferred. Uhg. Some can be donated, some need to become rags.

Also tambourined at the marathon for 3 hrs. Still kinda feeling that & the ac lifts.

Sara have you ever thought about doing a more permanent install of the AC units? Mine in NYC stayed in year-round and wind and weather did not come in.

You guys, I have a kind of amazing story. This part is *not* the amazing part, but it is pretty damn great: I went hiking yesterday with a group called Fat Girls Hiking, which is a body-positive group whose goal is to make hiking a positive, comfortable experience for fat folks (and other marginalized groups, like POC, queer people, trans people, and disabled people) who may not have felt welcomed in typical outdoors/hiking communities. The state park we hiked at was about an hour north of Cincinnati, and the hike was a fairly easy 3.5-mile hike with very little elevation gain. It was a great time.

BUT! This was the amazing thing. We missed a trail turnoff and accidentally found a small cemetery that was clearly very old -- the dates on the headstones were all from the 1800s, and some headstones seemed to have emblems indicating that the individual was a Civil War veteran.

So tonight I googled the name of the cemetery. It turns out that it's an African American cemetery, and some of the people interred there are former slaves, and some of them are indeed African American Civil War veterans. It was nifty to stumble on an old cemetery, but to find out its history is really fascinating. I want to see if I can find out more about it.

Oh, that's very cool.

Oh, wow. What a great day!

That's very cool, I'd love to know more.

Msbelle, nope. I like having my windows. Usually have more weeks of open windows than this. They're a summer necessity, but aesthetically, I don't like them. I'll get central eventually.

Black kitten, yay! I am jealous.

Windows should be open in summer, yes.

I really want to hear about the history of the old cemetery.

Gud works too damn hard.

And Helsinki sounds like the trip of a lifetime.