The Labour Day weekend being the official end of summer and beginning of the school year always presents a dilemna - should you try to be as lazy-ass as humanly possible before the routine of school and activity begins, or should you go crazy trying to catch up with projects and errands before that same routine interferes?
The answer, of course, is both. Both kids tried to get as much lazing around done as possible:
while still making some sort of useful contribution to the household:
Meanwhile, Tim and I poked away at yardwork:
This horrendous crab apple tree produces the mealiest, most tasteless apples ever, in abundance. Tim was actually going to cut it down this spring to make room for the surrounding trees, but just as he approached it, a little sparrow flew out of the bird house where it was building a nest. And so the tree was saved for one more year.
We also managed to get some painting done in the kitchen, made extra fun by the 31 C temperatures. Here's the kitchen at eleven o' clock Sunday night - Tim put another coat on the next day.
There was still plenty of time to do less useful stuff, though. We seem to have the need to visit Virtual Rennes le Chateau every few years, and replay the old Sierra Game Gabriel Knight 3. Ah, the golden age of gaming, where you actually got to solve puzzles and think. (As an aside, the game touches on similar themes made obnoxiously popular by Dan Brown's Da Vinci code, and I don't even need to read that rag to know that Jane Jensen and the Sierra team tell a superiour story). (As a further aside, look at how much detail the Sierra team put into the graphics - compare the screen shots with the actual locations at Rennes le Chateau!)
Anyway, this is Theo's game face:
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