Westmoreland Asays

I have no theme for today's post--just a smattering of semi-current events and thoughts. Meg hosted a birthday party for one of her friends Friday night, so I went to see The Simpsons Movie at Northern Lights after I put the boys to bed. I enjoyed every minute and thought to myself, "best Simpsons episode ever?" Even though it's been in theatres for months, I passively avoided reading about the movie--and I was thus able to enjoy it as if it were opening night. Last year we had a sunflower forest dominating our three garden boxes, but I made sure this year to keep only about 10 plants growing (they're great at propagating and sustaining themselves year-after-year). I did a good job of harvesting the seeds last year, but I was terrible at preparing them for eating--and thus most of them rotted away. I think by keeping the harvest limited in scope has made it easier to prepare the seeds gradually and enjoy them all autumn. Both Aaron and Edward helped me harves

UPDATE : Here's some nice highlights from the game . And from the Michigan game , if you didn't catch it on national tv. It was awesome to return to Autzen Stadium--I forgot how loud that place gets. Although I'd love to watch a close game, it's kind of nice to see the Ducks blow their opponents away. It's even better when you're in the first row on the 45 yard line, the weather is perfect, and you get to witness historical plays that will live on forever. Meg's older brother invited me to the game, but I felt kind of bad because I left Meg to host a ward dinner party all by herself. But only one person showed up (and she tried to cancel), the kids were at a sitter's house, so it wasn't too much work for her.

For Family Home Evening tonight, we discussed what activities would be appropriate or inappropriate for Sunday. Meg pulled "swimming" out of the idea can, and posed the question to Aaron. After thinking it over for a few seconds, he answered: "No, that's not appropriate, unless you are being baptized."

After waiting nearly six weeks--which seemed like forever--I brought the G20 home to Salem on Tuesday night, where it will graciously wait it out in our third bay for the next year while I finish serving my time driving Alice the Ugly White Corolla, after which Meg intends to give the Corolla to her brother Paul once he returns from his missionary service in Ghana. The seller finally found a newer Infiniti G20 that he liked, so he was finally able to officially sell me his older G20. The Ducks game was essentially over at halftime, so I listened to the final 30 minutes it in the garage while I worked on cleaning the G20's interior. The carpets were extremely soiled, but I spent a few hours making them respectable. The leather seats are in decent condition for a 14 year old car, but unfortunately my cleaning and conditioning efforts didn't appear to do much to their appearance or feel--maybe after a few more times and some better chemicals I'll see a difference. I'm g