Peanut Gallery: Family and Friends

Saturday, May 16, 2020

Elsinore turned 10 and it was an emotional struggle for Abbie and Steve to figure out how to make it special. There is no such thig as planning in the COVID era. It feels fine to all get together but you just don't know, and in the end, it was decided it was too soon to have a party with friends.

The last minute decision was to make it a family event, and Scott & Denise dropped by for a patio pizza. Somewhat spur of the moment, the Uncles created an ad-hoc zip-line which, aside from the COVID cake, was the highlight.

The story went down like this: Scott's gift to Nut was a pulley. He had seen the photo of her climbing the tree and lowering the food to Juno so he thought she could engineer something more sophisticated. He suggested to Olivier that the three of them brainstorm the ideas on how to do that but Olivier being Olivier, inserted scope creep. Before Scott knew it there was a rope involved, the pulley was cast aside for later, and Elsinore was in harness and helmet zipping down her backyard. It was actually quite hilarious and helped make an otherwise mellow celebration quite exciting. Points for the Uncles!

COVID Cake. (nice work, Mom!)

Treat Driven

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

May 22nd

The morning started early - we left the house about 4:30 am without breakfast. Luckily things were progressing slowly so we could all have breakfast together in the hospital cafeteria.