This week we went to Dear Mom Cafe (thank you GUM for the gift certificate). I had a mocktail. I LOVE mocktails. I had the Westside Sparrow – hibiscus syrup, lemon juice, yuzu extract, and sparkling water.
For an appetizer, we had roti with curry.
For dinner, I had the noodle soup – rice noodle soup in bone broth, house roasted pork, ground pork, pork crackling, green bean, crispy wonton, garlic chili oil, cilantro, and peanuts.
Mom had the panang – sauteed shrimp with thai panang curry with crispy basil, a sunny side egg, and jasmine rice.
Dad had Pad Thai Glass Noodles – classic wok stir-fried glass noodles, shrimp, egg, bean sprout, green bean and toppings.
Spring is coming. The trees are flowering and the phlox are showing their colors.
Dad’s back in the bread business. Yum.
(Remainder of the blog written by me, Emmett.)
It’s 60$ but that’s okay i’ve played with it every day since I got on thursday – My new GRAVI TRAX (giant set). It’s a marble run building set.
Finally got started on my viking decor aka a shield
I had to stain it with two coats of stain. When it comes to stuff like this I have no patience
final product
Crutches are almost gone. Here I am standing without them:
Last weekend of skiing at Meissner. There is still a lot of snow in some spots,
but not so much in others:
I had three days off from school this week for conferences, so Papa came for a visit. Can you believe he had never been to the High Desert Museum? He has now. They had a Sasquatch exhibit:
And we went to a Mammal Encounter show to see a porcupine. He is a rodent, which, as we all know, means he has ever-growing teeth.
My wingspan is about the same. I’m still a turkey vulture,
but my crutches get me closer to condor range:
Mom saw the tortoises’ lunch and decided her spirit animal must be the desert tortoise.
We went out to dinner at Jia. I had chicken pho:
Dad had the Saigon bowl:
Mom had the spicy eggplant:
and Papa had the tuna poke bowl:
On Sunday, Dad made us buckwheat galettes with Swiss cheese, prosciutto, and an egg for lunch:
Papa made a loaf of golden flax bread. It was delicious:
Sunday afternoon we visited Peterson Rock Garden:
They have a lot of peacocks:
I brought a camera with me and made everyone pose like they always do to me.
Papa’s stay is coming to an end, so I threw him one of my famous going away parties, complete with a bar:
The days are long when you can’t ski or bike or do much besides sit on the couch. I made some pot holders.
Including one for Coach Elsa. We were Team France…
Jameson and Quinn came over this week. That made for a nice break from The Bigs. Here Jameson and I are having lunch break. It was good to refuel before returning to destroying things in The Bigs’ garden with RC cars.
I also went with The Bigs to Dilly Dally Coffee Shop…
and convinced The Mother that another trip to Humm Kombucha was in order.
I also did a puzzle.
And The Bigs took me to Vector Volcano to play video games.
When we were leaving Vector ,The Bigs noticed there was no line at L&K Barbershop. I was not pleased.
The barber had some fun with my hair at the end…I was definitely not pleased.
They had an Easter wheel at the barbershop. You spun it and got a prize. Do you know what my prize was? A gift certificate for Vector Volcano. Awesome!
Now that it is done, I think the haircut looks pretty good, wouldn’t you agree?
I also made a boat from popsicle sticks, glue, and an old sheet.
The Mother then taught me how to use Fusion 360 and helped me design and 3D print a sailboat hull.
I also did some building building and read at 434 page novel.
AND made The Mother play Monopoly again. When I am all healed up, she is burning this game.
We also dyed Easter eggs this week. Rather than buying dye, we decided to use onion skins. A couple of how-tos on the internet said to use cilantro leaves and strawberry stems to create designs on the eggs.
It worked! Unfortunately the dye made brown eggs, which is kinda funny since we had a fridge full of brown eggs and went out of our way to buy white eggs just to dye them. That’s OK, they do look pretty cool.
I also did a crutch Easter egg hunt.
The Bigs bought me an Easter present before I broke my leg. It requires mobility. They felt a little bad about that and bought me a different gift. Then they said ‘oh heck, give him both’…but only if he solves these related puzzles.
In about one minute, I determined the answers were muscles and tennis and got my Sportcord and tennis racket.
This week they made me eat things I did not like. Did they forget they are supposed to feel bad for me and let me eat my favorites?
Roasted carrots with tahini sauce
and Cambodian omelet (egg, ground pork, and shiitake mushrooms) with radish and cucumber pickles.
The Mother made The World’s Greatest Grilled Cheese in the air fryer too…
And for Easter we made butterflied leg of lamb on the grill with brussels and asparagus.
