A day in the Whidbey Life
Aug. 10th, 2010 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trystinnWoke up this morning absolutely exhausted, but needing to get moving. One of Josh's crew members from the Lincoln is deployed and his new wife, Krista, is driving up to the Island to spend the night and day. I get to play Elder Navy Wife for awhile and give her the tour. Should be a hoot. We're trying to get the house up to visitor standards, which we're gonna fail. Diane had me come into the store today for a few hours, mostly to play with her Corgi while she went to an appointment and to vacuum. As the only employee (other than the owners) of the Wind & Tide, vacuuming has been added to my job description. Joy. Damn vacuum has no suction.
I did manage to get a Rhubarb Crisp in the oven. Josh is in love with Rhubarb. Go figure. Thankfully, our friend has had a bumper crop and is sending it home with folks who come by. Can't say I'm fond of the stuff, but it's in the oven. The recipe is pretty simple, so here's to crossed fingers.
Kevin will be joining us for dinner in town tonight. He knows Krista's hubby, so now he gets to meet his cutie patootie wife (she's on my FB). I'm getting hysterical texts from him in pseudo-spy speech - "the Rhubarb sings at midnight, tell no one". "The Eagle rides a refrigerator at dawn, wear mittens".
I think I accidentally volunteered to buy a few Rhodies. Someone asked me for breed recommendations, I recommended Rhodies and now they are coming by with two. Since same guy is gonna take a few of our ducklings, should be interesting - just not sure what age he wants the ducklings. Most folks around here want them at 1 month or so, independent, mostly feathered-out, etc. And I still need to get pictures of the new ducklings! Maybe Joe can hold Babs while I do so. Josh is a wuss when the ducks start attacking.
So that's my day today. Hope everyone else's was considerably more normal, with plenty of rhubarb and mittens galore.
I did manage to get a Rhubarb Crisp in the oven. Josh is in love with Rhubarb. Go figure. Thankfully, our friend has had a bumper crop and is sending it home with folks who come by. Can't say I'm fond of the stuff, but it's in the oven. The recipe is pretty simple, so here's to crossed fingers.
Kevin will be joining us for dinner in town tonight. He knows Krista's hubby, so now he gets to meet his cutie patootie wife (she's on my FB). I'm getting hysterical texts from him in pseudo-spy speech - "the Rhubarb sings at midnight, tell no one". "The Eagle rides a refrigerator at dawn, wear mittens".
I think I accidentally volunteered to buy a few Rhodies. Someone asked me for breed recommendations, I recommended Rhodies and now they are coming by with two. Since same guy is gonna take a few of our ducklings, should be interesting - just not sure what age he wants the ducklings. Most folks around here want them at 1 month or so, independent, mostly feathered-out, etc. And I still need to get pictures of the new ducklings! Maybe Joe can hold Babs while I do so. Josh is a wuss when the ducks start attacking.
So that's my day today. Hope everyone else's was considerably more normal, with plenty of rhubarb and mittens galore.
