Lazy weekend

I have a couple topics that I intended to write about this yesterday and today, but didn’t get past the “soccer pay equity” post that I had drafted on Friday.  Instead, I’ll just tell you about my weekend.

Saturday morning started was the District-level Pinewood Derby, which my husband attended with my youngest son.  Here’s what they returned home with:

Yes, that’s the “design,” not the speed trophy.

After that, well, I had planned to go outside and get some exercise, but I hadn’t paid much attention to the weather forecast:  for most of the morning and afternoon, off and on:  snow, with a miserable swirling wind that meant that, when I left Aldi, it felt like the wind was pushing me back into the store from the parking lot as I made my way to the car.

Plus, graupel.

Which I’d always thought was just some unusual form of hail, though my husband said, “well, in German, that’s graupel,” and I looked it up and found out that the English term is actually a loanword from the German.

So we stayed inside, the kids entertaining themselves with a mix of a TV movie, reading, and playing Nerf guns, while I worked on my puzzle:

(yes, it’s upside-down in this picture; I didn’t pay attention to that).  And I have to say that, while I’m not usually a big puzzle-doer, I got quite absorbed in it.  Yes, any big fan will notice that it’s a relatively easy one — the areas lent themselves to sorting by general color, and there was very little of the single-color, pure guesswork, sections.  And I felt very lazy working on this when I should have been getting other things done, but finished it off later that night:

Afterwards, we finished the day with a game of euchre with the kids.

And — here’s a nice little tidbit:  my 7th grader and his friends have gotten very interested in card games, during lunch at school, in the evenings at Boy Scout outings, whenever they have empty time and no other immediately available entertainment.  They range from Cheat/B.S., Go Fish, Egyptian Ratscrew (which I doubted was a real game ’til I looked it up online), to more adult games like Hearts and Euchre.  So that’s nice to see.

Today the weather was dramatically warmer than yesterday, and my husband spent the afternoon working on the treehouse:

while I relaxed with a book, took a walk around the neighborhood, ran an errand, and did some laundry.  Up next is finishing up a couple things for work, and finishing my book.

How was your weekend?

 

(own images except as noted)