ciroccoj | Kicking and baking and straddling trees

Three hours of TKD tournament training today. Chris pointed out that this is how many hours we spent at TKD per week, when we first started, almost three years ago.

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Came back from TKD and made dozens of empanadas, banana bread and banana muffins, for our trip to Toronto next weekend. I am Woman, hear me Bake.
Will be Feeling the Pain tomorrow. And going to TKD again. Funny thing about TKD, it makes you feel so young... and yet so very, very old.
Digging through to find out when we actually started TKD (June 2007), I came across another entry from 2007:

Went to the sugarbush on Easter Monday and mmmmm, maple. Pancakes, maple muffins, maple cookies, maple butter, mmmaple. Hideously expensive, though. We bypassed the wagon ride and just did the hike through the bushes, looking at the different trees and the sap lines and all that neat stuff. At one point, Chris pointed out a small tree that had apparently somehow snapped from its base but was still being propped up by the larger trees around it, so that it hadn't fallen down but was still semi-upright, hanging suspended.

Chris: Boys! Come look! Wow, these are rare. OK, now, I want you to stand over there - careful, now, don't get too close to this tree. OK, now, look at this tree ::starts approaching the tree cautiously as the boys look on curiously:: You know what type of tree this is? This is a very special kind of tree ::slowly walks a bit closer, putting his hand out in front of him:: and the reason you can't go too fast near this tree is that if you do, all of a sudd- ::stops short and looks a bit stunned:: you'll SMACK up against the trunk, the trunk of the Great North American Half-Invisible Tree.
Summary for a Harry Potter fic I have not, alas, read: "When one of the missions goes wrong Ron finds himself straddled with the last thing he ever expected."

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