Sunday dinner
Oct. 29th, 2001 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioSunday dinner was fun. Ralph and Lori made a wonderful N-bean chili (just about every kind of bean you could imagine, well except I don't think it included garbonzos), and nicely spiced. And vegetarian, which is always useful.
After dinner we carved pumpkins. I can't remember if I've ever carved a pumpkin; I certainly haven't done so as an adult. It was fun. There seems to be a whole industry around pumpkin-carving now; I foolishly thought that carving a pumpkin involved a pumpkin, a knife, and something to scoop pumpkin guts out with. I had never seen the tools that apparently can be gotten in grocery stores. The little saber-saw blades with plastic handles worked especially well. The plastic awl was handy for marking where to cut, so you didn't have to worry about residual marker ink.
I finally remembered to take my laser pointer. I've been thinking about that ever since Ralph and Lori got kittens. My cats go nuts chasing it, and I figured kittens would be a hoot. (I did wait for Ralph or Lori to agree to this, though.) It was even more entertaining than I thought it would be. Two of my cats will follow the dot up the wall, but they don't jump for it the way the kittens did. The kitties got a good workout. (I hope that means they slept more soundly than they usually do.)
After dinner we carved pumpkins. I can't remember if I've ever carved a pumpkin; I certainly haven't done so as an adult. It was fun. There seems to be a whole industry around pumpkin-carving now; I foolishly thought that carving a pumpkin involved a pumpkin, a knife, and something to scoop pumpkin guts out with. I had never seen the tools that apparently can be gotten in grocery stores. The little saber-saw blades with plastic handles worked especially well. The plastic awl was handy for marking where to cut, so you didn't have to worry about residual marker ink.
I finally remembered to take my laser pointer. I've been thinking about that ever since Ralph and Lori got kittens. My cats go nuts chasing it, and I figured kittens would be a hoot. (I did wait for Ralph or Lori to agree to this, though.) It was even more entertaining than I thought it would be. Two of my cats will follow the dot up the wall, but they don't jump for it the way the kittens did. The kitties got a good workout. (I hope that means they slept more soundly than they usually do.)
father time
Date: 2001-10-30 06:28 am (UTC)