Capture the Flag

Randomness. I mentioned a few days ago that I have been out with a fierce bug. Wed-Fri I stayed home really feeling out of it. Today is sunday and I still feel out of it. Tomorrow is a holiday so I have one more day to get right but during those days alone in the house I got a chance to attack a list of things that had been hanging over my head to do for a while. The list is not finished of course it never is... there is always stuff to do and things pending and fires to put out etc. But I did knock a few big items off the list. A few weeks ago I trimmed some of the little lower branches of a tree in the front of the house and it has, as I had hoped, become the kid's favorite climbing spot. They go way up, spy on folks walking by and play for hours. We invited as many folks as we could for a potluck yesterday afternoon and a game of capture the flag. Aria, James and Sasha came out from Boston and we ate tons and had a fantastic time running around in the dark, strategising, putting each other in jail etc... until the inevitable happened... I floored poor Mason. I was so intent on getting this kid Brennan who had our flag that I didn't see Mason and we collided. He's ok but it was scary there for a moment and I felt really bad. Despite this and one other accident everyone seemed to have good time and made a date to do it again in two weeks. So for those of you who couldn't make it this time around put it on your calendar.