Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there. My name is Simcha Fisher, and you may remember me as that lady who used to blog occasionally, a long time ago. This week, more urgent things came up than I could shake a stick at, and so blogging here just had to go shake a stick at itself. Sorry! Back in the saddle we go. Right after I set up this rock tumbler it seemed important to buy and set up. What is the matter with me.
SATURDAY
Papa Gino’s
On Saturday, we went to the fabulous, thrilling amusement park/water park and stayed for ten hours! We had such a good time, I took almost no pictures! This is the first time we’ve gone to a place like this all together. The kids went on the upside-down roller coaster and everything. I confined myself to rides that were only a little terrifying, like the log flume. My absolute favorite: DaVinci’s Dream, which is like a giant rotating mushroom with swings on long chains, so when it comes up to speed and starts to tilt, you float through the night like a, like a, night air manta ray. It does something mystical to my brain pan.
Seeing the little girls on the carousel, on the other hand, makes my heart explode.
Boy, did they have a good time.
For dinner, we dragged ourselves into a Papa Gino’s right before they closed and devoured some pizzas on the way home.
Very hot pizza. I’ll say it again: Papa Gino’s pizza is better than you have any reason to expect. They are a Pepsi, not a Coke establishment, though. Forewarned is forearmed.
Anyway, if you’re in NH, I heartily recommend Canobie Lake Park. It’s reasonably priced, you can come and go so you can eat lunch outside the park, and there is a huge variety of rides, and everything was very clean and orderly. The layout was very smart, so you never get stuck in dead patches with nothing to do. They had live music (nice music! Not horrible music!) and little shows and attractions everywhere, and weren’t constantly haranguing you to pay for extra stuff; and there were fireworks over the lake at the end of the night. There are tons of benches and shade trees throughout the park, and the whole thing is just as pleasant as can be.
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SUNDAY
Blueberry chicken salad
Probably the last one of the summer. I roasted some chicken breasts with oil, salt, and pepper, and cut it into chunks. Served on top of mixed greens with feta cheese, blueberries, red onion, toasted pecans, and dijon vinaigrette (recipe here).
I chopped the greens up small so as to make it taste fancier, but it just kind of pre-wilted everything. Oops.
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MONDAY
Scrambled eggs, sausages, oven roasted home fries
Three dozen eggs, fifty sausages, and about six pounds of potatoes, if you’re interested. The Amazing Elongated 13-year-old Boy still made himself a few sandwiches after supper, as usual. He actually makes two sandwiches, one for each hand, and somehow eats them both at the same time. I’ve seen it happen and I still can’t believe it.
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TUESDAY
Honey sesame chicken, rice rolls
I had high hopes for this slow cooker recipe from Damn Delicious, but it was damn disappointing. The flavor was kind of harsh, and it turned out drippy. I also made the mistake of serving it with crunchy rice rolls from Aldi, too, instead of on a bed of rice. Everyone was a pretty good sport, but lots of people were making sandwiches.
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WEDNESDAY
English muffin pizzas
I have no memory of Wednesday. It’s like there has to be one day out of each week that just gets sucked down a memory hole, as a propitiation to Hectic and Frantic, the twin gods of late August.
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THURSDAY
Pork ribs, french fries, peas
Some cousins magically appeared, so I ran out for more pork ribs and french fries, and then somehow burned all the pork and undercooked the fries. The peas were a hit, though. By which I mean they hit each other with peas.
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FRIDAY
Quesadillas, corn chips, beans and rice
Or maybe not, because one of the cousins just threw up! And our really quite new washing machine, for which we bought a warranty and an extended warranty, has been broken for almost two weeks. They are apparently now mining for the ore with which to fashion a new lid lock, which we told them it needed over a week ago and which we can expect to arrive sometime next week. But don’t worry, they will partially reimburse us for laundromat expenses! If we can produce receipts. You know, the receipt you get when you put a bunch of quarters into a washing machine. And we’re going to Rhode Island for a family reunion tomorrow, and I cleverly left all the carseats out in the driveway, and it poured rain last night. SO MAKE YOUR OWN QUESADILLAS.
Simcha,
This is the funniest WFD? yet! You cracked me up every paragraph. You’re a rock star.*
*thanks to this and several of your other posts, serious & humorous both.
So frustrating when you don’t have a washing machine! Also, how about reimbursing you for time spent sitting at the laundromat, time when you could be doing things in your home. 🙄
A rock polisher was one of the Great Dreams of my childhood. Good for you!
That’s how we eat our too-hot pizza, too!
Good to see you were just busy and no tragedy had struck. I hope one day I can be like you.
Such a fun day! I love Canobie Lake and Papa Gino’s, as well, although my favorite ride is the Turkish Twist. Not sure if this will help your washing machine situation, but our lid lock broke (twice) and we decided to get by variously using a dime or a flat square lego to trick the machine into thinking the lid was locked. We kind of rest it in the locking space and the machine latch pushes it in place. It works about 80% of the time. Good luck!
Surely the goddess of August is She Who Survives Summer Break Without Hurting Small Children, who sprang from my aching head one year–fully formed and with a Pixar DVD in one hand and a margarita in the other.
Hahaha!!!!😅😅
Leah Joy, you ROCK!!
I used to love Canobie Lake Park when I was growing up in the 80s in New Hampshire! Such a fun place.
Your line about the twin gods of late August is priceless.