Last weekend, went back to Cleveland with Julie to pick up Erica and meet some of my extended family for a family reunion. Was pretty great. Melissa was there, but Elliott and Simon were absent, since Simon's been traveling a bit rough lately and he was due to start a new preschool soon after.

On Wednesday, Erica started fourth grade, the two intro days followed by a four-day weekend.

On Saturday, I did a bunch of activities with Erica, including going to the Farmers Market and doing some cooking. We went on the tour of the Taza chocolate factory, which has been on my activity to-do list for a while, since that's very close to our house. I made cucumber salad, for which for some reason my mind kept trying to substitute a more nonsensical phrase.

Today, I baked ginger-lemon scones from the Flour cookbook with Erica, which she picked out as a cooking project. Turned out well.

We had an appointment this weekend to get our seasonal vaccines, but it was abruptly cancelled. I'm hoping that things will get sorted out. But the CDC seems to be in an insane state right now, and the government's vaccine policy seems to be at root straight-up in favor of more people getting sick.

(I'm reading A Wind in the Door to Eria and it's uh interesting timing in the context of Sec. Brain-Worm's comments about "mitochondrial challenges".)