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"There are too many grammatical and spelling errors in The Sword Dance for Word to continue to display them."
 
sigh... so anyway, there's more madness over at simien_mtn_fox.
 
Yesterday Sara and her whole class went away for a week at an adventure activity centre in the highlands. There are a bunch of videos from last year on youtube that show you the kind of stuff they get up to--trapezing and fencing and building rafts and piles of mud!
 
 
Sara's main worries are, pretty much in this order: 1) Will she find enough to eat?  2) Will she be able to live without cuddles from Mummy/Laura (the cat) for a whole week?  (it's not really a WHOLE week--just monday to friday, but she has never been away from both parents for more than a night)  3) Will she be warm enough? 4) Will she be able to brush her own hair with enough success that mummy won't cut it all off when she gets home?

 (Sara is front/left in both pictures)
 
I went to see them off yesterday and they were all very cute, with their TONS of stuff (they have to take three pairs of sneakers and sleeping bags and stuffed animals and about a trillion sweaters).  They seemed very excited and not too worried.  The place they are staying is where Beatrix Potter's family used to go before they went to the Lake District.
 
In other news, we have made the BEST home improvement we have ever made, and constructed a summerhouse. It is like having Thoreau’s cabin in the garden. I find it an unbelievably inspiring place to work—I just sit there and all my troubles and distractions fall away. Plus, it is like having a porch.  I had always imagined it would be nice to get an extra hour of sitting outside on sunny days but I had not realized that we would also be able to sit out there on RAINY days and even on RAINY nights. Which means pretty much ALWAYS (on Sunday morning one of the other Sunday school mums looked up at the elusive sun and exclaimed, “What is that golden orb?”)
 

 
If anybody thinks I am making it up about the rain,

Date: 2008-09-23 12:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashfae.livejournal.com
That summerhouse is wonderful!!!

Badly named, though--clearly summer doesn't exist here, alas! ;)

Date: 2008-09-23 02:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashfae.livejournal.com
We would! I just forget why, sometimes. ;)

Date: 2008-09-24 12:37 pm (UTC)
ext_6284: Estara Swanberg, made by Thao (Default)
From: [identity profile] estara.livejournal.com
I would *raises hands* I hate hot weather, I've found out. Occasional windy days with some sun would make a nice change. And colour change in the autumn, but you get that - at least in the highlands.

You should install a heater and then be able to use it even in the snow!! with real fire behind glas, like those Swedish ovens, etc.

Date: 2008-09-23 01:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tigertrapped.livejournal.com
Oh I want one of those summer houses!! I've always wanted one. Sadly we have a tiny garden that faces onto a main road. Boo.

Date: 2008-09-23 01:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tigertrapped.livejournal.com
What I really want is two houses - one playhouse for Milly and at the other end of an infeasibly HUGE garden - my own house. We would correspond by miniature cable car baskets with messages, supplies etc.

Date: 2008-09-23 01:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com
omg tiny little house of writing!

Date: 2008-09-23 01:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com
Also also. [livejournal.com profile] mhari and I wanted to show you this, on the grounds that it is something Telemakos would TOTALLY DO, if only to give Medraut a heart attack.

Date: 2008-09-23 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com
OH MY GOD how are you my hero in SO MANY WAYS?

Date: 2008-09-24 02:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rainbowjehan.livejournal.com
Because you are SO. TOTALLY. AWESOME. And I want to feed a hyena.

Date: 2008-09-24 12:44 pm (UTC)

Date: 2008-09-23 01:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com
The summerhouse is awesome!

Date: 2008-09-23 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
So that's where all our rain goes! (Not a drop since March, and last Feb-March we got a record breaking nine inches, unlike the two to four of the previous years)

The camp looks wonderful, and I love the pic of the bus full of happy kids.

Date: 2008-09-23 04:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com
Ooo, what a pretty little house!

Date: 2008-09-23 09:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com
I had a professor in college who had these two fabulous tree houses (he had us all over for dinner). Your garden house seems like a grown up version of his tree houses.

Date: 2008-09-23 05:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhari.livejournal.com
That is so awesome!

Sara's thing sounds like the thing they made me do in sixth grade. Which was surprisingly successful; I actually had quantifiable amounts of fun in between flailing! (Er. But I expect Sara is a better-adjusted child than I was.)

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