In which trek shoots twice in the same week

This morning is yet another one where there are all kinds of things spinning around inside my head so you get to be treated to a second Bullet Post this week. Welcome to the Friday Morning-It's-Nearly-the-Weekend Bullet Post.

• The weather here still seems to be stuck in April mode: chilly nights, not very hot days, and lots and lots of overcast and rain.



• Edited 06-26-2009, 2:14pm: When Number Guy came home for lunch, he noticed something a bit odd in the back yard. Several odd somethings, actually. In case anyone was doubting the amount of precipitation around here, or the existence of fairy rings, I offer the following photographic evidence:
  
  
  



• Must have been some party in our backyard last night.



• Speaking of parties, one of Neatnik's classmates turned seven yesterday. The birthday party consisted of going to a movie and then a backyard barbecue/playdate at the birthday girl's house.



• If you are planning to go to see Up anytime soon, I advise you to bring tissues.



• The sun finally poked through the cloud cover about midafternoon, so Neatnik and I visited the pool. The water was still quite chilly and I decided that I was well and truly over it at about mid-thigh.



• Neatnik and friends had to be dragged from the water blue, shaking, and declaring that they were not, in fact, at all cold.



• After dinner, we took a short little walk and saw three bunnies, including a baby one.



• Last night was bagpipe practice night. I brought the sock in progress and some dishcloth cotton and a pair of straight needles.



• I knit several rounds on the sock.



• Make sure you are seated and not drinking anything: I made a continental knitter out of a hooker.



• Is everybody okay? No injuries?



• I did warn you.



• This is a woman whose husband's grandmother tried to teach her how to knit when they first got married, many years ago. Grandma was an English knitter and the new granddaughter-in-law just couldn't get it together.



• Did I mention that my new knitter is a lefty who apparently can hook righty?



• The upshot of the evening was my new pupil learned how to do a long-tail cast on, execute knit stitches, and recognize when the stitch on the needle is mounted backwards.



• That last was sort of accidental: she wrapped the yarn clockwise instead of counterclockwise a few times.



• All good learning experiences, though.



• We'll have lesson number two next week. I'll bring some decent wool.



• When we got home, we saw another wild baby in the driveway. This one was a less welcome one, though. It was a skunk.



• We parked at the end of the driveway and came in the front door instead of the side door by which we had earlier left.



• Yes, we have a lot of respect for skunks.



• I should have given yesterday's post a School at Home tag.



• The penguin lesson qualifies as science, zoology, even!



• School at Home continues here on a near daily basis. Some days, like yesterday, are very full and we give the paperwork a bye, but we also do some stuff on weekends so it all works out.



• Neatnik finished Misty of Chincoteague this week. We are very proud of her.



• That reminds me, I have to check the library's web site to see what, if anything I need to renew or return. Be right back.



• Thanks for waiting. Nothing due, nothing overdue. Always a good thing.



• While I am typing, Neatnik is engaged in math worksheets. We need to make sure she doesn't lose any math fact skills over the summer.



• I taught her how to do addition with "carrying". She now says that carrying is her favorite math thing.



• We are also continuing to work on multiplication tables and fractions.



• Neatnik also loves it when I put a few math problems on the chalkboard easel in her room.



• Yes, we are fully aware that we are raising a math geek. What of it?



• And she can knit, too, you know.



• The sun is peeping through the windows a bit. Maybe we can go to the pool today, too. It is supposed to be hotter than yesterday, so maybe by this afternoon the water will have warmed up a wee bit.



• One can hope!



• If you are feeling like and angel of mercy, go visit Sheepie and give her lots of moral support and sympathy today: she's got an early appointment with Dr DeSade, DDS.



• While you are on the sympathy gig, send a pile of it my way, too. I decided to try to acquire a taste for oatmeal, what with the cholesterol and how good the oats are for the old bloodstream.



• I ate a bowl of cinnamon-flavored library paste this morning for breakfast.



• It is sitting in my stomach like a rock.



• A yucky, lousy breakfast isn't any way to start one's day.

Oh, well, despite the awful gastronomic experience of the morning, I am determined to make this a decent day. Neatnik's doing a great job on her School at Home math worksheets and I am planning to make another loaf of oatmeal bread and tomorrow I have two birthday parties to attend and at one of them I shall eat cake.