A bit more detail

Yesterday I wrote:

Linnea is on the couch moping. Perry made a judgement error on the water this morning, and she -and the rest of the team, from older HS kids to college students- followed him. She's beating herself up for following him. And yes, they all got in trouble, Perry in particular, fwiw. Perry's been rowing for 9 years now and I've never heard of him EVER making a judgement error on the water. As in, ever. As in his former coach actually mentioned that at a senior sports dinner, that in her years of coaching Perry he'd been 100% reliable on the water. Anyhow, Linnea is devastated because of this. To add to her misery, just as they were leaving the dock in the launch, I came to pick her up, and Perry had to return to the dock to drop her off. She's terrified that the head coach is going to get on his case, -and hers- for that too. I think she's stressed and tired, all these days of getting up at 3:45am are getting to her.

I got a few more details from Perry.

1. He had plenty of time to cross and the coach whose boats they "cut off" hadn't been concerned at all. There had been time for all of them to cross, even the slowest, but yes, more margin would be safer.

2. He hadn't expected the others to follow him, but acknowledged that he should have.

3. Their coach? Gets angry, puts them on land to erg for the rest of the session, lets it be known very clearly why, and then it's over. There are no grudges held.

So eh. She feels a bit better.

ETA This was written yesterday, but I forgot to post it. It refers to events from Friday and Saturday, LOL.

Three things for Sunday

1. OMG. How fucking typical. My SIL managed to get her son signed up (for free) for a week long canoe camping trip in the North Cascades. Yay, right? The kid doesn't want to go (he's not very athletic, has never been away at all from his mom, my MIL, or his dad, and has never camped, or hiked), but she's insisting. I think he'd have a great time for 3 days, NSM for a whole week. He needs a whole lot of expensive gear. Which, according to the phone call I'm listening to, she expects us to figure out and provide. WTF? The two big ones are sleeping bag and dry bag, and Perry uses his dry bag on a regular basis and all of our sleeping bags are rather nice (and purchased at the REI scratch and dent) and I'm not sure I want to loan those out. UGH. How did this become our problem?

2. I really want to start a tradition for my family that a friend of mine named jilz did with her family for many years, from when her kids went to college back in the 80s: she called it Second Sunday Supper: on the second Sunday of each month, everyone tried to make it to dinner. Typically, she'd make lasagna or big dishes of pasta or stuff like that. Her kids, their partners, her extended family, all were welcome. My gatherings would be a lot smaller (I don't have 5 kids and iirc 3 or 4 siblings with a buttload of nieces and nephews!), but when my kids get together, it's easy to see that they like each other and this would provide a way for them to see each other on a regular basis. I'd of course invited MIL, SIL (sigh) and anyone else who can make, and bring SOs and friends, but I'd just like to start something like that now, as Linnea leaves for college, especially after seeing so very little of AC when she was with Dipshit. I'm going to toss the idea out tonight, she's coming over for dinner. That said, I expect in our case, it'll be Second SATURDAY Supper, since that's easier for us.

3. OMG. I bought this Dish Drying Rack,20" x 13" Roll up Sink Drying Rack,Over Sink Dish Rack and I already adore it. Previously I used some drying mats, but the cats would sleep on them if they could find ANY room at all on 'em or if someone forgot to put them away after putting away the hand washed dishes, and because they were acrylic, they retained hair and I had to spend so much time washing and de-hairing them. I hope this racks continues to work and that I don't discover that it's really not going to work because of something the cats do, LOL.