RBOC, post-4th-of-July edition

• In the category of “things this cool never happen to me”: today a neighbor we don’t even know asked T to do him a favor and take an entire crate of opened bottles of very nice wine off his hands. Hard to believe that this is considered a favor! It turns out the neighbor worked at a restaurant that just shut down and was charged with getting rid of the opened bottles of wine that were left and the neighbor doesn’t drink wine. Luckily, we do. :) The bottles are all opened, but some still have a good 3 glasses of wine left in them. We had this tonight.
• In the category of “exactly how slow is your daughter?”: Lily went into her room at 10:22 to put her pajamas on. At 10:36 I went in to check on her and she was fully dressed, sitting on the floor playing with a doll. I said, “I thought you were putting on your pajamas. . . . “ and she said, “Well, I couldn’t which ones to wear, so I’m thinking about it now.” Right. She finally decided to go with her summer standard—no pajamas—and was ready to brush her teeth at 10:41. Which means that it took roughly twenty minutes for her to take her clothes off.
• In the category of “what can you do with cucumber-infused vodka?”: About six months ago, I made a batch of cucumber infused vodka and then didn’t know what to do with it. I meant to put it into Bloody Marys, but for whatever reason, the one time I made Bloody Marys in the past six months, I forgot about the cucumber vodka and used plain vodka. But, a few days ago I found a recipe I had pulled out of a Martha Stewart magazine months or even years ago for cucumber lime cocktails. The recipe calls for cucumber liquid (made by pureeing and then straining cucumbers), lime juice, mint, and plain vodka, but I used my cucumber vodka. Pretty darn tasty.

tags: lily  parenting  wine  neighbors  cocktails  infusions  

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