I was born on a Saturday. And always remember the poem about what each days child will be. Mostly because, my entire life, I have woken up and had to work like hell all day on Saturday. Today started slowly enough. Thought, mistakenly, I would sleep in. Made it till 8. Emily has been gone and I forgot she gets up early, 8, to go to yoga. So no extra rest. It’s my job every day to make coffee. I know my job. I got up and made her coffee and kicked her out to yoga. Ahh, peace and quiet, read the paper. Marika is down the stairs and reminds me I am making buttermilk pancakes for her. I promised. She went to the store for buttermilk. I finished the paper about when she got back. I made pancakes from scratch cuz my buttermilk pancakes are the bomb. With Maine maple syrup which is the best syrup in the entire word. Anyhow. See
blueberry cakes on the griddle. About this time Emily returned. So we all had pancakes. Emily had four which is a true testament to how good they are. She NEVER eats pancakes. Or French toast. Or waffles. All of which I am a virtuoso baker of. So it goes.
It is now 1145 and I just finished all the dishes and started the dishwasher too. I want a dishwasher that cleans everything. The rest of my day? Now the lawn. Just under two acres. Haul a load of stuff to Emily’s classroom, school starts next week. Wash all three cars. And in my spare time…lol.
Like I said, Saturday’s child works hard for a living. I bet I will be asked to BBQ tonight as well. Ahh Saturday, day of leisure.
Now that I have kvetched for 300 words let us remember I do like doing things for my family. It’s a good thing. But it is work. Maybe Sunday I can relax. I am gonna start holding my breath right now.
We just finished loading all the school stuff into the truck and car. Only took 40 mins. Now, we gotta go to school and help her set up. Oh joy. Oh rapture. Oh my god. Oh well.
We took a detour. I had some black powder coated wheels that fit Marika’s car. So we took those and the low profile tires to Jim at Haughn and Son Tire in Dixon. He will swap those out today.
Then we went to school and unloaded the stuff. Fortunately, my lovely and brilliant wife did not need our help. Thank you Emily.
Back home and now the lawn. No, wait, go back to town and fill the gas can and come home and fill the mower and then mow. Two hours. My vacation replacement, Cameron G, did a fine job on the lawn. But leaving me dry is still annoying. I have been mowing a lawn somewhere once a week during growing season since I was eight years old. I hate mowing the lawn. My son had severe grass allergies so I did not get the pleasure of handing it off. I hate lawns. Our new house in Auburn will have no lawn. It might be heaven.
We are headed out in a moment to go get the car. On the way a stop at Alhelis for shaved ice. 2 for 1 today. I have to check in when I get there but they do have some screaming deals. They have a shave ice/ice cream combo. Get the insulin out! I do love it. Orange with ice cream or root beer with ice cream. You can not go wrong. And here we go
Tigers blood and blue raspberry. Yum
We went back to the tire shop to get the car. So they did not have the correct lug nuts. We still picked up the car but we have to go back Monday. No big deal. The new wheels look awesome on her car. 
the black out effect is a nice style. Emily has powder coated black wheels on her car as well. Just a nice look.
We took the two cars into Vacaville to get washed. The first place I went was closed, it was 520. We found one that stays open till 6. They did both cars for $22 each. Marika’s was the last car they cleaned for the day. Anyhow, I had specifically asked them to get the 3500 miles worth of bugs off the front of the car. When we got home later, I noticed they did not clean all the bugs off. I had to spend a half hour cleaning my “clean” car. Marika’s was not completely vacuumed and only partly washed. Lesson learned, don’t go to the car wash at quitting time. Both are all clean now.
We came home and Emily arrived a few minutes later. She decided to wash her car right then. She is that way. Couldn’t drive a dirty car. You have no idea.
Dinner now. BBQn pork tenderloin and a salad. That’s it. Except for the whiskey sours I made for the ladies. Emily is thirsty after a day in the salt mines. I can’t blame her. She and Marika are sitting and drinking and solving the worlds problems. I feel better.
We are on to dinner. Salad and pork tenderloin. Very well cooked and salad is incredible. All I did was cook the meat. Which is what I said this morning if you remember.
sometimes food can really hit the spot. Tonight’s dinner is one of those times. No dessert, on the diet.
Off to bed. We are going to watch part two of Empire Falls. Based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel written by a Maine author. Based in Skowhegan!!!where we have our cottage. I have eaten in the Empire Grill (since closed) which is where the main character worked. Lots of shots in the movie are in town. I know they had some filming at Moxie Falls where I have been many times. Fun to se the town look so good on screen.
Will watch till I pass out.