Caitlin and I planned by text.
I feel like a grown up with the new phone!
I created a perfectly respectable spaghetti sauce, with added onions, red and yellow peppers. My SIL chopped the peppers for me. (He's a good cook!)
Josee and Caitlin were assembling Lego. You see, someone in their car had to pee just as they were passing the big Lego store on their way here! Isabelle thought she might as well have a pee, too. Lo, and behold, when they came out of the store to rejoin Caitlin in the car, they both had a parcel.
Josephine had some Christmas money, but Isabelle got a solar powered rhinoceros beetle.
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| It was tricky to assemble |
I thought this was a catalogue (below left), but it is the manual for the Lego construction. It's complicated. Josee had a blast.
In the afternoon we watched Aquaman on PPV, as we had 20 mm rain on Saturday. There was another 22 mm on Sunday. I thought that fitting. It was simply pouring cats and dogs all day.
Sunday morning they figured out the TV and were into a movie.
Josephine did what she always does with Caitlin's smartphone, but used mine! She is growing up, nearly as tall as I am. She's in grade 6. While Caitlin drives, Josee can send me a message saying they are on their way, for example.
Izzy and I went out to fetch SD cards from the cameras. We talked to the turkeys.
We examined the tracks in the snow, on the way down to the meadow. It was a wonderful walk.
The frog pond embraced all that rain.
Down there, we noticed the pileated woodpecker had been busy. I've set the 2nd trailcam up and I might have more on it later.
Isabelle's class went to Macskimming Science school last week. (I was a student teacher there in 1982.) They are comfortable in the woods. They all walked with sticks this way.
Isabelle, down on the meadow on her way back up to the house.
Lots of turkeys on the trailcam!!!
They brought me a new hat from Florida!
You can tell they were here!
What was fun... when I went back the next day, seeing Izzy's boot prints in the snow. It was Monday, and they were back in school.
Tuesday, on my way through Lombardy... The lakes are not open. It was a surprise. She was beside a creek.
