At the Pentagon.
And now for a really random picture - the slug that came in the crack under the front door a few weeks ago. I really wish they wouldn't do that. I had to get a stick to remove him.
Weather was lovely today -- the girls and I attended a wedding; the boys took Steve to play golf as a late Father's Day present and a last hurrah before Peter ships off for boot camp next week. Peter has discovered after more than a year how his voice mail works on his phone; he had to go shopping for the regulation socks and underwear and duffel bag he will need. I'm a little worried about him since we don't have a definite schedule for him yet, but he's going to have to learn to manage his life and better sooner than later, I guess.
Daniel found a good deal on an Ipad mini on Ebay and it arrived today.
I spent a significant part of the morning ironing the backlog of Steve's shirts and pants. Daniel downloaded a mod for my Civ4 game, called "Caveman2Cosmos". It is so big it takes 5 minutes to load and taxes my computer to its limits and sometimes beyond, but it is quite fun to take my stone-throwers and trackers out to hunt orangutans and sun bears. I am playing the Celts and they started up in the Amazon rainforest.
Steve and Daniel picked raspberries yesterday and I made jam, with Quarta's help. It turned out a bit too runny. The plum tree is looking good for this year -- not quite as loaded as last year, but still quite respectable.
I found an interesting bit of Proto-Indo-European when I was doing my Bede translation today. He keeps mentioning "frater germanus" and I finally found a link that explains it, kind of. The interesting thing is that "hermano" is Spanish for brother, but the German word for brother is completely different - "bruder". I've been reading a bit about what it might be like to be a polyglot this week: a fascinating article. The idea is appealing but I don't think I could maintain my sanity and learn that many languages! My current list: English, French, Latin, Koine Greek, Italian, Spanish, and German. The German is still pretty beginner level. I'm counting down the days until Duolingo offers Dutch, and I would like to learn at least one non Indo-European language at some point.
I just realized it is the Summer Solstice and I still do not have Celtic Solstice finished.
Weather was lovely today -- the girls and I attended a wedding; the boys took Steve to play golf as a late Father's Day present and a last hurrah before Peter ships off for boot camp next week. Peter has discovered after more than a year how his voice mail works on his phone; he had to go shopping for the regulation socks and underwear and duffel bag he will need. I'm a little worried about him since we don't have a definite schedule for him yet, but he's going to have to learn to manage his life and better sooner than later, I guess.
Daniel found a good deal on an Ipad mini on Ebay and it arrived today.
I spent a significant part of the morning ironing the backlog of Steve's shirts and pants. Daniel downloaded a mod for my Civ4 game, called "Caveman2Cosmos". It is so big it takes 5 minutes to load and taxes my computer to its limits and sometimes beyond, but it is quite fun to take my stone-throwers and trackers out to hunt orangutans and sun bears. I am playing the Celts and they started up in the Amazon rainforest.
Steve and Daniel picked raspberries yesterday and I made jam, with Quarta's help. It turned out a bit too runny. The plum tree is looking good for this year -- not quite as loaded as last year, but still quite respectable.
I found an interesting bit of Proto-Indo-European when I was doing my Bede translation today. He keeps mentioning "frater germanus" and I finally found a link that explains it, kind of. The interesting thing is that "hermano" is Spanish for brother, but the German word for brother is completely different - "bruder". I've been reading a bit about what it might be like to be a polyglot this week: a fascinating article. The idea is appealing but I don't think I could maintain my sanity and learn that many languages! My current list: English, French, Latin, Koine Greek, Italian, Spanish, and German. The German is still pretty beginner level. I'm counting down the days until Duolingo offers Dutch, and I would like to learn at least one non Indo-European language at some point.
I just realized it is the Summer Solstice and I still do not have Celtic Solstice finished.
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