The weekend was good. Friday night we went to my parents’ place for supper with my aunt and uncle, as well as my cousin and his wife and kids. We had a good, if brief visit with them again on Saturday night at our place. The weather was very co-operative, with beautiful evenings on both occasions.

Last night, we went to Jason and Amy’s for Mya’s Third Birthday Bash. It was good, but William’s expiry date passed before we left. Overall he didn’t misbehave too badly, but it was time to go home when he sat on his finger painting.

I’m going to bounce around back to Saturday though. The idea that we would be having people over to see the house on Saturday evening motivated us to spend the day cleaning (in shifts, since supervision was required throughout the day.) I think we did a remarkable job, though the house was far from tidy when we were done. At least it wasn’t as bad as normal ;)

Sunday, Erin and I combined to bake some non-dairy buns. Erin’s really struggling with the non-dairy diet, and having buns around that she can eat will help the situation hopefully.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Well, that concludes this morning’s announcements, I’m Seymour Skinner and stand by to resume learning in 5—4—3—2—1.” - Principal Skinner

No, I’m not talking about the Riders “game” last night. William wiped out on his way over to Mom & Dad’s place yesterday afternoon, so he didn’t want to ride his bike home. I don’t think any lasting damage was done ;)

Other than that though, not much news from our place. I’m usually pretty boring over the summer months, aren’t I?

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Ever since I called for the rescue of that Simpson lad, I have taken a lot of heat. So I am flip-flopping. I say, let him stay down there.” - Mayor Quimby

Ball was ok last night - I went 2-4 with a double and a single, couldn’t manage to drive in any runs though. I was kicking myself after our second game, because I was pitching, and overthrew the first baseman on a crucial play early - they wound up hitting a walk off two-out home run to win the game (instead of a tie if I’d made that play.) We all miss plays, but that one hurt because it was mostly due to being blinded by the sun - I couldn’t see where I was throwing the ball at all because the sun was right behind the first baseman’s head (I think.) Still no excuse. The team we played wasn’t as much fun to play against as some others that we’ve run into though, which is too bad. I don’t mind losing if we’re at least having fun out there, but there wasn’t much camaraderie out there with the other team in either game (our win or theirs.)

So that was last night.

Erin tells me that the projector lamp arrived this morning, so I should be able to get it installed tonight and have it up and running for the football game if I so desire. William was watching the zamboni at the rink last night, and seemed interested in the hockey that was being played on the various rinks at various times (the title of this post is a William quote, referring to the goalie who was wearing a yellow jersey on one team.) So, he’s well on his way to watching “the game” with his dad. :)

Funny side note - I spell check my posts (usually) and the only word that was tagged as misspelled was “zamboni.” I should mention that I use a Canadian spelling dictionary, so it seems odd that it would be missing.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Hmm. Look at his eyes. He’s trying to hypnotize me, but not in the good Las Vegas way.” - Homer

Yesterday, Erin and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary. My brothers were kind enough to supervise William for the evening (you can’t stop him, you can only hope to contain him.) We went to a new restaurant in town - Fajita Willy’s. It was good food, and not too busy (it just opened over the weekend I think.) I kind of felt bad because we were sitting upstairs, and were the only table our waitress was serving up there. Imagine walking up a flight of stairs, asking “How is everything” hearing “great” then walking back down again several times over the course of an hour or so… ;)

So, eight years ago, Erin and I got married, which brings me to my next topic - Congratulations are in order for Kelsey, who’s engaged. Big news, that’s for sure.

Anyway, back to last night, after supper, we went to the most romantic place in all of Saskatoon — Superstore — and picked up some vitamins for Julia, and some craft supplies for William. Pretty exciting stuff, eh?

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Homer! Did you tell the mafia they could eliminate my competitors with savage beatings and attempted murder?” - Marge

As you may have noticed, I did manage to get some stuff done over the weekend - including combining William and Julia’s sites into one site - kids.nodecam.com. Go there for all your cuteness needs.

Sunday night, my family came over for burgers and air conditioning, which was good. As the sun was starting to set, we worked on getting the missing deck roof panel replaced, and got it mostly in place. It needs to slide about a half inch, but for that to happen, someone will have to get up on the roof and guide it into the slot. Besides, the mosquitoes were getting absolutely horrendous, so we called it “good enough for now.”

William has been riding his bike like crazy, and the long weekend saw a few trips to the park and back, escorted by either myself or Erin (or in one case, both of us, as well as Erin’s uncle Gary and his partner Dave who had stopped in for a brief visit.) He had his first wipeouts, but nothing too major. Hurt pride the first time, and a slightly skinned knee the second time. I have to be honest, I thought it would be next year before he really got the hang of riding this bike, but it was like a switch got flipped one day, and away he went.

Oh, and the projector lamp gave up the ghost Monday as well. It died quite a bit prematurely (I can’t check the lamp meter without a lamp, so I don’t know how prematurely at this point) I suspect largely due to the problems we’ve had with the power over the last few months. It’s not totally unexpected, but it still sucks. I guess that means I’ll have to postpone buying the screen paint for a bit, since a replacement lamp kind of shot the budget a little. I did get a raise on Friday though, so the budget has more wiggle room ;)

Simpson’s quote of the day: “The United States of America has the best doctor-to-daredevil ratio in the world.'’ - Lance Murdoch