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Saturday was a little bit crazy. Gardening in the morning (not-quite-local community garden), then a 60th birthday party in the afternoon, then Hockey Presentation Night ("preso night" bcos we're Aussies) in the evening.
I won my team's "Coach's Player" award!
Funny moment, though. She's a teacher, and said she enumerated the traits that she thought the Coach's Player should have, including good sportsmanship to all people involved in the game (team-mates, opponents, officials), being in uniform, attending training, and being on time for the game.
Around the time she mentioned "being in uniform" I figured it wasn't me.
I am the only person who is regularly not in uniform in the club - the current uniform, that is. I play in a cotton pleated set of 'culottes' (loose shorts, usually made of a fairly structured material) that is a good fifteen years old and which has come apart at various seams only to be stitched back together. I even replaced the waistband elastic a couple of years ago! It's a little faded, but still very wearable. In those fifteen years, the club has switched to the stretchy lycra 'skorts' which are like bike pants built into a skirt. I have fervently resisted, and so long as I'm in the right colours, I'm not taken to task.
Anyway, Coach's Player award in spite of the not actually being in current uniform part. LOLZ.
I did point out (when my friends cheerfully heckled me about the uniform thing) that this was environmentally friendly and sewing-related, and was totally my schtick. Which everyone in the club knows.
Good night, though. Great to catch up, talk to people, commisserate about what we do now that the winter season is over. September is often a slightly 'well, what now?' month when it comes to hockey things.
Answer? 'Summer hockey'!
Slight divergence: reading of the YT and/or character question in both the community and the discord, I am reminded of the term 'malicious compliance'. There's always someone who's looking to spike someone else's fannish drink and then laugh with their friends at the event years later.
Sunday was a Crop Swap, and Supper At Church. I'm a little annoyed with myself, though, for swapping two of my homemade mooncakes for some wheely stands.
*sigh*
I got rid of a bunch of things, accepted a bunch of other things, pulled up all my carrots (damn, I have to process those today)...
Another funny story: last week I made two kinds of mooncakes (regular lotus-seed-with-salted-yolk in pastry; and snowy-skinned gluten-free ones in lotus seed, lotus seed with yolk, and custard-and-mango) and took them along to my bible study group. I also baked a lemon and raspberry polenta cake for my study group.
We had three birthdays. One delayed for a woman whose father died a week before her birthday, and so whose 'birthday celebration supper' was put off, and two whose birthdays are one after the other.
One of the birthday celebrants is gluten-free, and so is another member of the group, so I always make an effort to have something that's gluten-free. If that means cooking two things, fine: I'll cook two things.
Birthday celebrant was really appreciative of all the gluten-free options, and since there was a "progressive supper" on at his place on Saturday night (cf. last week's weekend report post) he apparently raved about it to the others at the dinner.
We were on Supper At Church, so I pulled out an old recipe for Butterscotch Slice, added passionfruit syrup on top, and disguised the butterscotchness with sprinkled oats on top - you do what you gotta do when there's a horde of kids gonna descend on the food like seagulls (hey, I was a church kid, I know how it goes). And it worked! They went for the brownies first. :D
And I'm just after shooing the kids off, when another friend plants his elbow down on the bench and says, "I hear you did amazing baking things for bible study on Wednesday". He allowed that mooncakes were not his thing - apparently once he was given one from a $2 shop and it was the most awful thing he'd ever tasted. I didn't promise him he'd like the ones I made, because, you know, taste is individual and there are texture issues and all kinds of things... But I know his wife is adventurous in tastes and would love to try a bit, and well, I'm not above trying to change people's minds.
:D
I also made mapo tofu - pork mince and tofu, with garlic black bean sauce. I liked it, but B1 reckoned it didn't taste right. Well, next time she wants it to taste right she can cook it herself, instead of leaving it until the pork mince is right on the edge! (That was the reason I ended up cooking it: because sometimes B1 just doesn't have the energy. And I don't mind doing it, but "I'll get around to it" is not a valid promise on her part because her health gets in the way.)
Anyway, last week was one of those weeks when I just had my cooking on and was getting it done.
--
Running a gardening course this weekend in the not-quite-local community garden: Spring Veggie Gardening.
It was supposed to be for educators teaching kids, where I was going to emphasise about variety and engaging kids with all the senses. It's been thrown open to the public, and several of the people from the community garden are probably going to tag along.
Gotta start making lists of what I'm going to be outlining, what I'm going to be planting out in the plot that they've given me, and what I need to take with me on Saturday morning (or even before then).
--
IRON TABLETS DAMMIT.
I won my team's "Coach's Player" award!
Funny moment, though. She's a teacher, and said she enumerated the traits that she thought the Coach's Player should have, including good sportsmanship to all people involved in the game (team-mates, opponents, officials), being in uniform, attending training, and being on time for the game.
Around the time she mentioned "being in uniform" I figured it wasn't me.
I am the only person who is regularly not in uniform in the club - the current uniform, that is. I play in a cotton pleated set of 'culottes' (loose shorts, usually made of a fairly structured material) that is a good fifteen years old and which has come apart at various seams only to be stitched back together. I even replaced the waistband elastic a couple of years ago! It's a little faded, but still very wearable. In those fifteen years, the club has switched to the stretchy lycra 'skorts' which are like bike pants built into a skirt. I have fervently resisted, and so long as I'm in the right colours, I'm not taken to task.
Anyway, Coach's Player award in spite of the not actually being in current uniform part. LOLZ.
I did point out (when my friends cheerfully heckled me about the uniform thing) that this was environmentally friendly and sewing-related, and was totally my schtick. Which everyone in the club knows.
Good night, though. Great to catch up, talk to people, commisserate about what we do now that the winter season is over. September is often a slightly 'well, what now?' month when it comes to hockey things.
Answer? 'Summer hockey'!
Slight divergence: reading of the YT and/or character question in both the community and the discord, I am reminded of the term 'malicious compliance'. There's always someone who's looking to spike someone else's fannish drink and then laugh with their friends at the event years later.
Sunday was a Crop Swap, and Supper At Church. I'm a little annoyed with myself, though, for swapping two of my homemade mooncakes for some wheely stands.
*sigh*
I got rid of a bunch of things, accepted a bunch of other things, pulled up all my carrots (damn, I have to process those today)...
Another funny story: last week I made two kinds of mooncakes (regular lotus-seed-with-salted-yolk in pastry; and snowy-skinned gluten-free ones in lotus seed, lotus seed with yolk, and custard-and-mango) and took them along to my bible study group. I also baked a lemon and raspberry polenta cake for my study group.
We had three birthdays. One delayed for a woman whose father died a week before her birthday, and so whose 'birthday celebration supper' was put off, and two whose birthdays are one after the other.
One of the birthday celebrants is gluten-free, and so is another member of the group, so I always make an effort to have something that's gluten-free. If that means cooking two things, fine: I'll cook two things.
Birthday celebrant was really appreciative of all the gluten-free options, and since there was a "progressive supper" on at his place on Saturday night (cf. last week's weekend report post) he apparently raved about it to the others at the dinner.
We were on Supper At Church, so I pulled out an old recipe for Butterscotch Slice, added passionfruit syrup on top, and disguised the butterscotchness with sprinkled oats on top - you do what you gotta do when there's a horde of kids gonna descend on the food like seagulls (hey, I was a church kid, I know how it goes). And it worked! They went for the brownies first. :D
And I'm just after shooing the kids off, when another friend plants his elbow down on the bench and says, "I hear you did amazing baking things for bible study on Wednesday". He allowed that mooncakes were not his thing - apparently once he was given one from a $2 shop and it was the most awful thing he'd ever tasted. I didn't promise him he'd like the ones I made, because, you know, taste is individual and there are texture issues and all kinds of things... But I know his wife is adventurous in tastes and would love to try a bit, and well, I'm not above trying to change people's minds.
:D
I also made mapo tofu - pork mince and tofu, with garlic black bean sauce. I liked it, but B1 reckoned it didn't taste right. Well, next time she wants it to taste right she can cook it herself, instead of leaving it until the pork mince is right on the edge! (That was the reason I ended up cooking it: because sometimes B1 just doesn't have the energy. And I don't mind doing it, but "I'll get around to it" is not a valid promise on her part because her health gets in the way.)
Anyway, last week was one of those weeks when I just had my cooking on and was getting it done.
--
Running a gardening course this weekend in the not-quite-local community garden: Spring Veggie Gardening.
It was supposed to be for educators teaching kids, where I was going to emphasise about variety and engaging kids with all the senses. It's been thrown open to the public, and several of the people from the community garden are probably going to tag along.
Gotta start making lists of what I'm going to be outlining, what I'm going to be planting out in the plot that they've given me, and what I need to take with me on Saturday morning (or even before then).
--
IRON TABLETS DAMMIT.
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