We are getting ready for Smallsteps' family birthday tomorrow afternoon, and my wife spent the whole day baking - while Smallsteps licked spoons and scraped bowls. And I stayed out of the kitchen. That is not completely true, because I had to go and buy a new mixer, because the ancient one we have died. But other than that (and getting a coffee), I stayed away.
I can only make a Pavlova anyway.
And that was not on the menu.
However, what I did do (other than getting a haircut) is take Smallsteps into the city to a "Little Italy" faire, which really was very little. We still managed to waste an hour there though, and while we didn't sample the food (what a waste - but Smallsteps couldn't eat most due to her diet restrictions, so I didn't try either), we did find a stall that had very good vegan sorbet - so no dairy. Smallsteps had strawberry and I went with a Venezia Cappuccino (which did have milk in it).
Perhaps I have said before, but one of the things I like about Finland is that an event doesn't have to be very special for people to enjoy it. There were a lot of people walking about the maybe hundred meters in total of stalls and mostly free space in the boulevard, enjoying the unusually warm (for August) weather, having some Italian wines, gelati, and plenty of pizza and cannoli. It was a good, relaxed, healthy atmosphere.
We didn't stay long because there wasn't much to do other than eat and listen to accordion music, so we started heading back home, talking about the best parts of the day, the worst parts, the funniest parts, and the silliest parts. It is something Smallsteps likes to do in order to reflect on what has happened in the day - which is pretty cool.
Of course, once home my work for tomorrow's prep started, which was to clean the house from top to bottom, but I went bottom to top. And then after that was done, I looked outside at one of our cherry trees and decided it was time to try and save it with a prune. It isn't the ideal time afaik to prune, but I have fears that it is getting diseased and there needs more space between the branches for air and light. We don't know how long the tree has been there, but I have read that they will last from 15 to maybe forty years only.
I'd be dead by now, if I were a cherry tree.
I am looking forward to having people here tomorrow, because if we are really fortunate, the rain will hold off a few hours more and we can sit outside in the garden. It would be the first proper usage of it this summer, and hopefully there will be more to come in the years to follow. And I am hoping that the weather will be good on Wednesday also - because that will be the "friends" birthday party, and I'd rather have the group of nine year old girls running outside instead of inside.
I just cleaned...
Taraz
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