Sunday, May 8, 2011

Mother's Day 2012

Today was Mother's Day, and it was also May Day, at least around here. We postponed the usual Maypole celebration from last weekend to this, and so it was a double header.

The day dawned gray and overcast and cold; Bailey skateboarded home, and we hauled butt over to Liz and Jet's place for a brunch that couldn't be beat. Fresh strawberries, bananas, apples, blueberries; eggs with oyster mushrooms and asparagus; killer Arabian mocha java coffee, orange juice, excellent toastage, homemade strawberry jam.

Liz is pregnant and glowing; Margann is the proud grandma-to-be; Jet is utterly in his daddy groove, easy going and happy; Bailey is in his skater jacket (yet another article of clothing that somehow finds its way to his wardrobe) and reasonably engaged in things; Kate is the great grandmother in all but the law's eyes. And I was, well, was happy to watch Margann and Kate dancing in front of the Wii, with Liz coaching and Jet talking to Kate's son in the kitchen, and the view...did I mention the view? 180 view of the Pacific, white caps and the sun trying, against all odds, to break through.

It broke through, later, and the afternoon was a constant boxing match between the contender, massive gunmetal gray cloud front and the champeen, Big Sol.

By then we'd gotten home, and it was time to make a ridiculous number of blinis for the ultimate second game of the doubleheader: May Day, postponed from May 1 to May 8.

Details to follow.

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