Just answer the questions, Mr. Paquette. The attorneys will provide the wisecracks.

[jackshoegazer]

Blah blah, blickety blickety blah blah blech.  You heard me, damn right.

Ethan has one last week of school and then it's oh-glorious summer vacation.  Thus, starting next weekend, he will only be here on weekends for the next three months.  I feel like I'm sending him to the Dursley's for the summer, exiling him to Watertown instead of #4 Privet Drive, Surrey.  Occasionally I have issues with his negativity and laziness that I feel stems from his mother, who is both extremely negative (to the point I am pretty sure she is chronically depressed) and lazy. As far as I can tell, they mostly sit around and watch television.  I'm hoping it doesn't get worse over the summer as I don't look forward to a conversation with his mother about her attitude and parenting style.  When I tried to talk to her about some things concerning Ethan last week, she screamed, "I'm tired of being the bad parent!" and then hung up on me.  I didn't get the opportunity to say, "Maybe that's something you should think about."  Perhaps that's for the best.

This next section of the post will be a pictorial tutorial.  Sort of.  I just like the cadence of "pictorial tutorial."

On Saturday Ethan, Jacquelyn, and I went uptown for the Farmer's Market and Ethan's appointment at Hair.

Ethan is either very serious about his bus rides or the early hour isn't agreeing with him.


The Farmer's Market is on the square surrounding our lovely capitol building.


It looks funny reflected in the building across the street...


We get the important things out of the way first.  Like breakfast.  For instance, here is Ethan buying a pepperjack scone.


I got a cheddar and spinach one (after I ate a cream cheese danish.)  Yum!


One can purchase many things at a Farmer's Market.  Like local honey...


or mushrooms...


or flowers.


Did I mention flowers?


I'm sure I did.  However, I'm sure I didn't say anything about cacti.


We really like the cacti and succulents.  See, here are Ethan and I looking at them.


Hmmm.. What else?  Oh yes, strawberries and asparagus...


green and purple leafy things...


potatoes and sugar-snap peas...


radishes on ice...


street musicians...  Ok, you can't buy them, but you can give them money.


You can also find hope in the unlikeliest of places...


And love as well...


and Mike Tyson...


Did I forget to mention the bee guy?


Afterwards we walked over to Hair on Monroe St. so Ethan could get his six-week trim.  Along the way, we ran into R2-D2.


Ethan gave him the secret stolen plans for the Death Star.


I placated my fans by taking vain and silly pictures of myself.


Jacquelyn was looking especially pretty yesterday.


Ethan needs to stop being so damned photogenic.

For those of you who read both Jacquelyn's and my journal, you may see some repeats as Jacquelyn took most of the pictures.  It was a pretty enjoyable excursion.  We ate quite well and played Settlers of Catan and Star Wars Monopoly before dinner and then watched Witness for the Prosecution afterwards.  Excellent old movie.  I don't even care for old movies much, but we've hit of a good streak of courtroom dramas and mysteries lately, like The Thin Man and Anatomy of a Murder.

I also threw together a pre-flyer for a Labor Day camp-out rave festival.  This year, it's called Camped Out.  I'll be doing the next pre-flyer around July and then the final flyer in August.  I should try to think of something clever to do since there isn't much one can do with a name like Camped Out.

I'm off to make tea and dinner before Jacquelyn goes to her book club.  Speaking of books, I just read all six Harry Potter books in a row.  There is such a wonderful thread to be gotten from reading them consecutively and I've got a billion theories now and I can't wait for the seventh book now.  I'd be depressed about what to read now, but Jacquelyn handed me Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, which is literally-laugh-out-loud hilarious.  If I wasn't dating a scientist, I'd say science shouldn't be this funny.

That's all for now.  As you were, soldier.

Comments

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

1. love the picture of honey
2. I always buy from the honey guy with the hive hat
3. R2D2 = Hero
3. Thin Man was cool

As you were.

[westerdrumlins.livejournal.com]

:)

[zegenta.livejournal.com]

Those are great pictures. Ethan is very, very cute.

[decemberthirty.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous light in the pics of honey and mushrooms!

[atomic-goo.livejournal.com]

This may be asking too much, but if you have time, can you make a .gif LJ icon that goes, "You can also find hope in the unlikeliest of places... (the pic of the HOPE message)," "And love as well (the pic of the spraypainted LOVE)," and "...and Mike Tyson (the pic of Mike Tyson)." That could possibly be the best icon in all of possible-existence.

[lagizma.livejournal.com]

I'm really disturbed by how much I love the geometry of your food pictures.

JAX is adorable! I love freckles. Being a freckled gal myself.

I'm insanely jealous of the Star Wars mailbox. I have not seen one in person.

[sarahaleney.livejournal.com]

You guys are ADORABLE! I loved this post!!!!

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

I so want to read all the Harry Potters in a row, but I think I'd be owerwhelmed with the guilt of all the other stuff I'm NOT reading. I'm such a slow reader *sigh*

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It did take me two months to read them all and as a dedicated fan, I felt it was my duty - nay, geeky obligation - to reread them all before the new one comes out next month. I was in a bit of a reading slump anyway, not really interested in anything at hand. Now I'm re-energized!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I know you're a fan of the photoposts.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It's Jacquelyn's fault you're disturbed - she took those pics.

I know she's adorable, thank you very much! ;)

I wonder if there's a website where you can hunt them down so you too can be photographed in front of R2 as well?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Blame Jacquelyn. Rather, blame God for the excellent light and Jacquelyn for capturing it. Those two are my favorites from the bunch.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Luckily I've instilled some modesty in the boy, else I'd be in big trouble. He's already getting late night phone calls from giggly girls.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

1. Jacquelyn did it. It's all her fault.
2. We too!
3. No loose wire jokes.
4. We're probably going to watch more of the Thin Man series. The whole time I was thinking of your statement about how it's not a real marriage until there's a drinking problem :)

[rzezidizz.livejournal.com]

I am in the middle of A Walk in the Woods. I love it, and can't wait to read Short History.

Loved the pictures.

[gutzilla.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

I just realized I was thinking of The Third Man - I always get those confused!

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

A Walk in the Woods is one of my favorites - I still laugh thinking about bits of it.

[rzezidizz.livejournal.com]

I am really enjoying it. I keep thinking of the part when they stop in a supply store and Bryson sees a map of the AT that spans 4 feet--and then realizes that they'd only walked 2 inches.
In general, Bryson is just such a good storyteller.

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if you've got to this part yet, but there is a part where his companion locks himself in a motel room that is just brilliant.

[rzezidizz.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah because the fat lady is chasing him? I tried to read that part to my husband but couldn't get through it for the laughter. Oh god.

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

and he says "tell my brother in law that there is money buried in the backyard" and Bryson asks him why he did that and he said he didn't, he just likes the idea of imagining his BIL doing that :)

[rzezidizz.livejournal.com]

oh yeah!! I thought that was funny, but also know people who I know would do something like that.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

The Thin Man is about an high class alcoholic couple and their dog who solve mysteries. They argue and drink a lot but genuinely love each other. It's hilarious.

[brdgt.livejournal.com]

Someone was talking about it at our last book club - they said that after the first few they aren't as good.

[choogy.livejournal.com]

i think it would be impossible for me to NOT buy honey from the bee guy.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I know! How could one resist?!

[lipsoflove.livejournal.com]

So that book by Bill Bryson has totally intrigued me. I just went on to Amazon and bought it.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I hope you like it. *I* am loving it :)