Saturday morning serials chapters one through fifteen. Fly paper, penny loafers, Lucky Strike Green.

LASFS Aftermeetings part 294: Coral Cafe (Jul/Aug-2007); Remodeling Monster part 1: Garage Door (01-Aug-2007) et seq.; Cosplay Picnic at Laguna Niguel Regional Park (18-Aug-2007); and Infinitely Excellent Picnic (19-Aug-2007) photos are now online. Click on xkokuux in her pirate garb with her new camera to see the Laguna Niguel photos.

Home front news: we have a new garage door, new shed, new sprinklers (not shown in the photos yet), our side gate has been newly fixed, and our garden is being overhauled. library_lynn is repainting and reflooring Maria's old room, too, and getting quotes for painting the house.

( Picnics: Went down to Laguna Niguel for the second ''SoCal Summer Gathering''... )

All day I had ice-cold pink lemonade for people to drink, and plenty of cups to drink it in. I served at least 15 gallons of lemonade that day. When the lemonade level would get about halfway down, I'd fill it back up. At the end of the day, there was a lot of ice in there and a little lemonade in the bottom -- we never ran out.

Meanwhile, there were two buckets of punch that weren't chilled; a foam cooler with ice; various ice chests with cans of sodas and bottled water, while they lasted, and then 2-liter bottles after that. At the end of the day, the first punch bucket hadn't been emptied -- and the other bucket hadn't been touched, they ended up dumping the whole thing (photo left).

When I got home I washed out my barrel cooler thoroughly, and the following morning I loaded up an ice chest with sodas from my office and brought the barrel cooler to the Infinitely Excellent Picnic to use for water. (Photo above right.) I'm pleased to report that I'd cleaned it enough that the water didn't taste of lemon...