Mooncup Monday

;P Title will make sense after a future blog entry.

Finally, I can complain about this without spoiling the final episode for the spoiler free. Locke! They had my beloved Locke in the coffin! They better have a way to bring him back. I must have Ben, Hurley, and Locke. They are my favorites by far. Everyone else is negotiable, although I would really miss looking at Sawyer.

I would be a remiss blogger if I neglected to share the little tidbit I learned today while listening to the Naked Science podcast. Farting, while wearing underwear and pants or shorts is completely hygenic, keeping all gut bacteria contained within clothing. Farting without clothing on, however, propels a plethora of bacteria through the air, making farting at places like nudist camps, a potentially contagious affair. Now, aren't we all better people for knowing this? Gotta love science!

This weekend flew by in a flurry of activity. Mark's brother came Saturday afternoon, to visit for the weekend and help M. work on finding and fixing the leaks that the lovely roofers left. They still haven't returned any of our dozens of phone calls. The guys think they got at least one of them fixed, maybe both. Saturday night was date night, and Mark already had purchased tickets for the concert we attended. It was another surprise, so I didn't know what we were doing until we got there. While we were there, Dan took L. out for dinner and to see Nimm's Island. The guys also worked on our weed whip.

We went to see Perfect Harmony Gay Men's Chorus. It was a very nice concert, and they were fun to watch and listen to. It's always heartwarming to me, when I attend events like this, to be able to see couples--gay and straight--out as couples. The gay couples were able to conduct themselves as straight couples normally are able to do without even thinking about it. What a sad world that it is still a life-endangering risk for two consenting adults who love each other to hold hands in public! Strangley enough, we found that we knew two of the guys in the chorus. They are friends of friends, and we run into them socially sometimes. We will probably see them in a few weeks at a party we will be attending.

After the concert, we returned to town and came home to get L. tucked into bed and squared away. M's brother was ready for bed, too. We then went over to our friends' D & D's to celebrate her birthday. We have a hard time getting our schedules and kid-free nights to line up, so we don't get to hang out nearly as much as we would like to. We had lots of fun and giggles over there. She has a very contagious giggle and laughs a lot! I usually come away from a night with them with a sore stomach from laughing so much.

Sunday we had another Petland protest. We had a great turnout--I think we had 17 people, especially considering that a few of our regulars were unable to make it. We did not pre-warn that we were coming this time, so no police greeters this protest.

M's parents arrived after the protest. They came this weekend to celebrate D's graduation (this Friday) early, as they will be in Nova Scotia when she actually graduates. We all went out to Olive Garden, as that was D's choice for the dinner celebration.

Tonight was L's first baseball practice. We were all (especially her!!) relieved to see that there were two other girls on the team. There may even be more, as a few of the kids were missing tonight, but I don't know what their gender was. She did well, sort of. She did great on batting and the throwing/catching drills, but the outfield--she did everything but pay attention. Mostly though, she chatted with whoever was near her. She almost got beaned a couple of times and wasn't remotely aware of it until the ball landed next to her. Her first game is next Monday, so I hope we can get her to improve on this before then. She liked it though, and the minute we got home from practice, she said she wanted to play more at home, so we played baseball in our yard until bedtime.


In the outfield, looking everywhere except at the ball: