Hyde Park

My friend Mary and I got together for lunch, shopping, and talking yesterday.  The weather was perfect to eat outside.  I added another new restaurant to my list for the summer, 13th Street Bistro (owned by Chef Peter Schotts). We had a leisurely lunch and caught up.  The big news was that Mary is going to teach a reading class for elementary teacher candidates this fall for Boise State.  She's pretty excited to be a adjunct professor.

I think it's been almost a decade since I've been to Hyde Park.  We browsed through an antique store where the owner had a Harley parked out front with a special seat for his white Scottie dog that we met.  They're heading out tomorrow for a trip to Montana.

Then we went through Hyde and Seek, a store with everything that I love.  I want everything for my house, or maybe I could just live there, or work there.  The next store use to be called One Thousand Villages, but now I don't the name.  It benefits refugees and villages all around the world.  They had a lot of tempting things too.

We skipped Goodies (ice cream and candy) so that means we'll have to make a return trip. Can't wait! 

Party with the Tax Commission Folks

Since the seasonal work for the tax commission has ended, several of the temps got together for a summer barbeque celebration.  Terry really enjoyed the people that he worked with and wanted me to meet them.  A very enthusiastic friend that led everyone in stretches at 11:00 AM in the cubicles, had invited everyone to her house.  She said if was hot, you could bring your suit and she'd have her pool ready.

Even though they lived way out in Wilder, we were not expecting what we saw when we pulled up.  Terry's new fun friends are completely redneck.  They're very lay-back.  They do whatever they want and make their own fun.  It was a hot night and they turned on the sprinkler for the dog to cool off in, but several of the guest used the sprinkler too.  We never saw the pool, but it was something homemade.  The canal runs right behind their house.  Last year at their daughter's wedding most of the wedding party jumped in the canal fully dressed, including the girl's new mother-in-law.  That scored her acceptance points.  We met the geese and checked out all the chickens in the coop.  I should have taken more pictures.  We did have a nice time.  If Terry returns to tax commission next year, I'm sure we'll be back.  In a funny way, he fits in.

Beautiful view from their front yard (hazy and blurry).

View as we drove up - front yard and house.

Our hostess and her husband playing croquet.

The husband - reminded me of Cy, on Duck Dynasty (Yes, I've watched that show) - funny guy.

The front porch. A second dog, big and black, was on the porch, but went inside to cool off.

Dinner w/ the Sis. Miss. and Marty

I had signed-up to feed the sister missionaries on Saturday.  Basically, it took all day.  I needed to clean house since I hadn't been home for almost 2 weeks, go to the market, and cook.  Terry helped out with everything, but that's about all I accomplished all weekend.  We invited a single friend of ours whom Terry home teaches.  He was able to count this for the month's visit and it was the missionaries that gave the lesson.  We had chicken tacos, rice, beans, fresh veggies, fruit, and blondies for dessert.  I think everyone had a good time, and they were gone by 6:00.  I'm still recovering from my travels.  I sat down for couple hours before going to bed early.

Saturday

About seven years ago, a friend and I joined Boise Fit Club to train for a marathon (we just walked).  Every Saturday we met on the greenbelt and walked, and walked, and talked, and talked.  It was great therapy and a lot of fun.  Now my friend is going through a miserable divorce and we're back for more greenbelt therapy.  We'll be meeting every Saturday morning.  I love the walking, and the scenery,and my friend.  I can't think of any other way to help her right now, except be there, and listen, and maybe say something funny once in a while.  We had a great four mile walk.  This will be good.

I cleaned house, did wash, and went grocery shopping, while trying to watch conference.  I didn't get too much out of it.  (I'll watch, listen, and read it again later.)  Then I went to JoAnn's to buy yarn for Stacey's baby blanket, and out to Marie Callender's for pies.  It's become a tradition for the guys to watch the priesthood session at our house and have pie afterward. It's also a tradition that I stop and share pie with Mom and Dad on my way home. Three guys do not need to eat two pies (plus ice cream)!  It was good to visit for a few minutes, and I left with another book.  Seems like I always leave with something. 

We had a good talk after the conference session - just me and the guys.  I needed to get to bed early, because I had invited everyone over for Easter breakfast.  It was a long day, but went by too fast.  

One Weekend Left

Just two days left until we all start back to school.  It's been relaxing, enjoyable, and beautiful.

Saturday - slept in and read books in bed.  I finished my third book this week.  I've started two more.  I wish I was a person that kept my Good Reads account current.  I never think I can write a review.  I should at least give the books I read a star rating.  I have a couple friends on Good Reads and I love reading their reviews.  I always want recommendations, but I'm not insightful enough to write a good review.

Terry and I went for a walk around the neighborhood.  I definitely need to start a new exercise and walking routine on Monday.  I was going to walk or workout all during spring break, but we ended up with just a couple walks.  I have more weight to lose and I'm sure more daily activity would speed things up.

I went to a bridal shower for one of the girls in the ward that use to be in YW when I worked with them.  She and a couple of her friends use to stay overnight in our bonus room.  It was fun to see her and her sister (who's first baby is due in two weeks).  They're both beautiful and all grown up.

I also attacked all the weeds on the side of the house, did the wash, changed sheets, and went grocery shopping.

Sunday - Fast Sunday.  It was a good testimony meeting. One woman shared that she has taken the word "discover" as her theme for the year.  I like that!  I want to use that in some way.  Right now she's trying to discover who she is. She said that one of Satan's tactics, that he uses against us, is getting us to change what we think about ourselves, and to change how we think our Heavenly Father sees us. She had been to a Time Out for Women and was working on discovering the truth of who she is, and how Heavenly Father sees her.  Good thoughts.

Another woman spoke on her testimony of family.  I liked that.  I think the family unit is one of our greatest blessings.  It's definitely one of mine.

A man mentioned that there are reasons for all things.  He was struck by a speaker last week that mentioned returning to church with her young daughter and sitting on the opposite end of a bench that was occupied by a man and his young son. Though she wasn't interested, the kids ended up playing and drawing pictures together during the meeting, and the couple ended up getting married and raising a nice family. There are no coincidences. The Lord is guiding all of us.

I struggling a little with Sunday School.  We have two different teachers that trade off.  One is excellent, the other is not even close to that.  Today we had a substitute and it was painful.

Oscar Party - 2014

It wAs THe bESt !!

It's the 75th anniversary of Gone With The Wind, which is Lydia's favorite movie. Decorations, games, food, and prizes all followed the Gone With The Wind theme.  It was big, and extravagant, just like the movie - and long.  We started at 4:00 and I crawled into bed at 11:15.  

This was our Scarlett O'Hara invitation.

Our Oscar surprise and swag bag were the first awards of the night.  It left Lydia speechless....but she did come up with an acceptance speech. My piano took 2nd place to some very yummy Cuban sandwiches, but I don't remember what the movie was.  I won a Southern Taste of Home cookbook. I also won a biography of Margaret Mitchell, two bottles of peach soda (non-wine drinker), lots of movie theater candy, and I now know a lot of Gone With The Wind trivia.  I also knew more of the words to My Own True Love (from Gone With The Wind) because it was the theme of my sister's Jr. Prom - 1972, and I went.... with a guy named Curt.  I can't remember his last name, but I do remember that they had covered the high school gym with red, ornate, flocked wallpaper.  But I digress.  Brit had the most popular boyfriend, and Marsha's ballot had the most correct.  We talked about all the dresses, make-up, hair, speeches, presenters, music, stars, and movies.  And we all wore feather boas!  It really was the best party yet. 

 

Here's my loot.  I forgot to mention my Audrey Hepburn playing cards.

Prep-Stress

The Oscars are this weekend and I have a big party to go to.  It's one of my favorite days of the year - definitely the best party - but it's also stressful.  Besides our fill-out ballots and our choice of an Oscar boyfriend, we have to bring a food that represents a movie.  I've won twice in the past, but this year is hard because you have to narrow down your favorite movie, and then come up with a food.  I was between Casa Blanca and The Sound of Music, but found a piano for Sam, in Rick's Cafe, easier to deal with than a guitar or a mountain range.  I think it will be great.

Who knew they made white chocolate Kit-Kats?

Adding to the stress, this is the 20th anniversary of the party, and we decided at the last party that we needed to make this year special for our host.  One person ordered a replica of the Oscar online and has it inscribed with her name for Best Oscar Party Hostess.  The rest of us are bringing (nice) things to put in her own swag bag.  Every year we leave with bags of movie candy, necklaces, funny purses, DVDs, books, wine, movie tickets, and more.  This year we're going to fill a bag for her.  The problem is that we didn't get on it until Thursday, and since I sent the e-mail, I'm now in charge.

Today I went shopping with Mary at Cost Plus.  We found a great travel journal and special trip tags.  (Lydia is a world traveler.)  We put together movie concessions for the stars: French lemonade, Lees fine chocolates, and some very gourmet, non-GMO, vegan, popcorn. Then we found a big Virgo coffee mug with all the stars on it and special coffees. The party theme is all southern, so we put in special magnolia hand cream, a Southern Comfort peach cobbler candle, and a gift card for a mani/pedi.  Others are bringing good wine and a wine journal, and real bling.  There will be more surprises too.  Thank heavens everything is coming together.  I've devoted my whole weekend to my ballot, my cake, and the swag bag.    

Book Club

The "no longer a Relief Society" book club met at my house on Tuesday to discuss Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman.  Only two of us had read the book, but we both really liked it.


                                   

It was published in 1952 and was very successful.  The Literary Guild chose it as a main selection. Reader's Digest condensed it. It appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, and was translated into 27 languages.  Everyone was eager for a sequel, but they didn't write one for 50 years.  Instead they had a family, traveled, taught, and became grandparents.  Their second book was published in 2002.  I'm debating about getting it.

Mrs. Mike is the story of a 16 year old girl (based on a true story) that marries a Canadian Mountie and lives with the Indians, trappers, and miners in the far north of Alberta.  It takes place right at the beginning of the 1900s and lasts through the 1st World War and the flu epidemic.  It was so interesting to see how the people lived and survived in that environment, and that they loved it!  

One of the big take-aways for me was when the main character moved to a new village and met another white women who told her all of the trials and misfortunes in her life.  The woman had lived a very tragic life and lost several children.  She said, "You'll see, you'll come to understand.  These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones.  If they were, how could one go on living?  No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.  Your Sergeant coming home, a good dinner, your little Mary laughing, the smell of the woods--oh, so many things, you know them yourself."  That's the part that I want to remember each day.  It's the little things that are important.

Literary Luncheon - 2015

Last Friday I took the day off work and went to the Literacy Luncheon.  It's a function that raises money for the Boise Learning Lab, and a couple of my friends are volunteer tutors there.  One of my friends speaks up and likes to be involved, so she is actually serving as president of the board this year.  She's the one who always invites me to be at her table.  The past four years we've been in charge of the table decorations, but this year we didn't have a job.  We just sat front and center and enjoyed every minute.

This is one of my favorite days of the year.  Here's why:

• I'm surrounded by friends and strangers that love books.
• There's always a student from the Learning Lab that shares their story and it's always inspirational.
• There's a silent auction with signed books and theme baskets that are donated by individuals and book clubs.  This year our yoga basket from the Rebel book club sold for $180.  
• I love to make a list of books that I might want to read.
• I love checking out the names of other book clubs.  (I like the name "Novel Women".)
• I always think that I might win a Kindle or i-pad air from the raffle.  Not this year.
• The guest author that speaks is always entertaining.  I love listening to authors speak.  They just have a way with words.

Lunch was good (with lemon cake).  I bought a centerpiece and three books from the author that spoke.  She signed all of them for me.  It was fun to see others from our table get their final bids for the book baskets that they wanted.  Two of them bought big baskets of books and toys for new grandbabies.  

Next year I want my RS book club to donate a basket.  I might even donate one of my own.  I'm sure I could get my dad to start looking for some books from the thrift store.  I'd like to do some old and new Nancy Drew books with a magnifying glass, or a Montana basket with some Ivan Doig books - maybe just a Whistling Season basket with a kazoo and a book about Halleys comet.  I have a year to figure out something good.   

The Value of Vintage Toys

My friend Mary and her family had an estate sale in the North End.  They were clearing out the family home that her mother had been in for probably 50 + years.  It was a big sale and her family are not experienced garage salers.  They tried really hard, but in the end, the one thing that wasn't marked with a price sticker were three naked GI Joes from the sixties.  They had looked the value up on the internet and they could go for 40-100 dollars each.  They had decided to go high, because if they didn't get a buyer, they would be light and easy to send cross country if they sold them on e-bay.  For some reason, after their research and discussion, they just hadn't marked them.  Mary's family members were each assigned a room or area to be in charge of that day.  The first guy through the door made a beeline for the vintage toys.  He asked the nephew how much the GI Joes were and he had said "a quarter".  So before they had been open for 2 minutes, they sold all three for 75 cents, and lost about $300.  Pretty funny. 

The Oscar Party!!!!

My friend throws an amazing Oscar party.  She spends all year preparing and collecting.  This year was the 20th anniversary of her first party.  I've only been going for about 15 years.  It's always one of my favorite days of the year.

The excitement started earlier this year with the pre-show starting at 4:30.  We also moved to a new venue - upstairs.  This year we all had soft seats, the TV had DVR capabilities, we had the whole dining room table for food, and drinks were no longer relegated to the treadmill.

Every year we:

• have boas to wear
• get gift bags like the stars with trinkets and bling
• pick boyfriends and collect kisses every time we see them or hear their name
• bring food to match our favorite movie of the year (This year's winner made a football field with veggies for Silver Lining Playbook.)
• play movie trivia games and match movies to bottles of wine
• collect many, many prizes for picking winners on our ballots (Prizes are also awarded for not picking any winners.)
• offer opinions on all dresses, hair styles, make-up, and acceptance speeches
• critique the host, presenters, and musical numbers
• catch-up on Hollywood gossip from one attendee who reads Star magazine weekly
• laugh - a lot!
• and then head home with a bag full of books, DVDs, movie tickets, marquee night lights, glittery feather pens, and every kind of movie candy you can imagine

It is an award winning party!
  

Literacy Luncheon for the Learning Lab

I have a friend on the board of the the Learning Lab, and for the last two years she has been in charge of the centerpieces.  I'm one of the people that she has recruited to help get everything set-up, which is fun, but better yet is our reward of having a table at the luncheon and getting to hear the speakers, participate in the auction, buy raffle tickets, and basically just spend the whole day with books and people who love books.

The centerpieces are mostly books (workbooks for a new language, GED help, children's books) with ribbons and colorful doodads that add interest.  People buy the centerpieces, then donate them back to the Learning Lab.  We collect the ribbons and doodads to use again next year.  Last year we had 72 tables, this year 84.  I'm sure the fundraiser was a big success.  I was outbid on all my baskets and books, but I brought home a list that I'm ordering from Amazon, and plenty of ideas for auction baskets for BEA or Trail Wind.

I saw several nice outfits - not like what I usually see when I'm with a group of school teachers or church ladies.  Our chicken dish was surprisingly very good.  The speakers were both excellent.  They always have a student from the Learning Lab and an author.  I found out the they're changing the GED at the end of the year and if you haven't completed all of the tests, then you have to start over.  That doesn't seem fair.  And I had a very enjoyable day off work. 

The student speaker had dropped out of Capital High in 1996, just a few months before graduating.  She was pregnant and thought it would be easy to pick up her GED.  It wasn't.  She had tried to study on her own, and enrolled in another program that didn't work, before she found her way to the Learning Lab.  She's now passed four of the five tests with honors, and is learning algebra and geometry so that she can take her final test this summer.  I was so struck when she said that since 2009, when she started, she's read 13 books - and she liked them!  Imagine the difference it makes in the lives of her children, when she succeeds and reads.

The author grew up in Boise and I knew her mom as a school board member.  Alyssa Harad has written a memoir that deals with her study of scents and perfume.  She told a story of a time when she was working with young people in the mental hospital here in Boise.  A boy of ten who couldn't read or write attended her poetry writing classes and was a rock star among the others because of his poetry.  She would start the class by reading a few poems, then the students would write and share their own.  This boy would pretend to write, but really only drew big loopy scribbles.  He "read" his poems and others were wowed.  Once at the beginning of class she stopped reading because she thought this boy was getting upset.  He told her not to stop, because he found his poems in the poetry that she was reading.  She then encouraged us to not stop reading, because others find their poems or their stories through our reading.  It was very powerful in a room full of book lovers.

 

8 Days with Ty

It was so good having a Ty around for the holidays.  He usually spends day and night with his friends.  He still did, but somehow he worked in several meals with family.  Grandpa took him out to eat about four times.  He saw most of the extended family, some of them several times.  It helped that he was injured because he went to see his Uncle Bill a few times to be aligned.  It was nice driving out to Kuna with him.  Both Terry and I had good talks with him.  He also brought his friends by.  It was good to see Josh, Dylan, and Alex.  I miss them too.

I dropped Ty off at the airport after school today.  It was pretty funny watching him try to stuff everything into a carry-on duffel bag.  He had to wear several layers.  His roommate has to pick him up just after midnight.  Fun-filled, happy, eight day break!

Just What I Needed

Christmas is crazy.  All of December is crazy.  As much as I love all the music and lights and treats and giving and decorations, it's still crazy.  So yesterday when I still had a bunch of shopping, wrapping, and cleaning, and cooking to do, I called my friend and arranged to meet at Barnes and Noble for a treat and a little break.  It was late in the afternoon and I had only completed half of my errands, but it was soooo good to sit down with a good friend, a hot chocolate, and a scone.  I love being in a book store, and it's especially fun at Christmas time.  We sat near the gift wrap counter and watched everyone else bustle and hunt and shop and wait in line and spend their money.  We just relaxed, visited, laughed, and exchanged little gifts.  It's been my favorite holiday moment so far.  Thanks, Lydia, for spending a time-out with me.

Out to Lunch

I don't know what it is, but as summer vacation winds down, I frantically book up my calendar with lunch dates.  I love long lunches with friends (and relatives).  Since teachers have short lunch hours, sometimes spent with naughty kids, often spent working alone in your room, it's such a luxury to sit down at a restaurant and not worry about the clock.  This past week I've had lunch at Olive Garden, Big City Coffee, and Red Robin (twice).  In another week and a half, I'll be back to bagging it.

Lunch Date

I met a friend for a three hour lunch at Willow Creek.  The food was great.  I had a blackened salmon wrap.  I don't know what happened for three hours.  I watched the medal ceremony for women's soccer (gold for USA) over my friend's head on the big screen.  I learned that "Beasts of the Southern Wild" is an excellent movie, but hard to explain - sad, but with an ending that might be good.  That's all I remember.  It was the best way to spend a summer afternoon.  I need a few more afternoons like that before school starts.

SLC

Tabernacle where I graduated from Seminary.

I'm hitting all the hotspots this summer.  This was a three day trip to Utah for some family history research.  Leaving at 8:00 put us in Brigham City at just about lunch time.  We drove through town so I could see the new temple on main street.  The open house starts in a couple weeks.  I'll wait and see the inside, but right now, I still think the tabernacle across the street is prettier.  It sure makes an impressive center of town.

Right across the street

The best part was that it was lunch time and we were down the street from Maddox's!  I had what I always have, turkey steak, salad, and fruit instead of a potato.  The rolls with raspberry butter cannot be beat.  I savored every bite and enjoyed the fresh well water.

It's been remodeled.  Just make sure you never pass up that Maddox reddish, orangish crown thing.

After lunch we drove straight to IKEA.  I hadn't ever been to the one in Salt Lake.  It was a pretty fun shopping experience.  I bought some little dishes, scrub brushes, a mirror, and the best cheese grater ever!  I never buy cheese already grated, so I really appreciated the whole clever thing.  The little bowl that you grate in is rubber and grabs the counter.  It has a lid so you can store it in the fridge.  I want to order more for all my favorite people.

 

 After the big shop we went to check out everything downtown.  We found the Family History Center and parking, wandered through Temple Square, did a walk through of the new City Creek Center, and grabbed a little bit to eat before checking into our hotel.  We were out by the airport because every place was full of Outdoor Recreation Convention goers.

The next morning we made it to the Family History Center by 8:00 and stayed until 6:30.  My friend who is going to Ireland next month wanted to check out her husband's Irish ancestors.  She doesn't want to be in a little village and not know that she should be taking a picture of the church.  We had great help from everyone.  If you don't know which way is up, there's at least four people ready to head you in the right direction.  

We found a lot of the information we were looking for, and a few surprises.  My friend found an ancestor on the New York 1930 census, and realized that he was in Sing Sing Prison (mob connection after coming over from southern Italy).  I found an entry about James Livingston joining Porter Rockwell in sabotaging Johnson's army as they entered Utah.  They did such a good job that Brigham Young changed his orders and told them to help the army with food and supplies so that they would be able to survive the winter.  We also found great pictures and images of documents like marriage certificates.  The whole day was fascinating and fun.

We loved City Creek and had enough time to do a little shopping and enjoy lunch there.  It happened to be Wednesday, when people were rallying to show support to Chic-fil-A.  We didn't know what was going on, but we didn't want to have anything to do with the long line that wound all around the food court.

Each evening we gathered Pepsi and some junk food to eat in bed while we watched the Olympics.  On Wednesday we had to stay up until almost 1:00 so that we could see coverage of Kristen Armstrong's gold medal ride.  We're proud of our Boise girl.

The ride home was fast and plenty entertaining.  After stopping at Maddox's on the way down, I had to share the Garden of Eden truck stop with my friend on our way back.  We didn't buy any souvenirs there, but did get one last Pepsi and a Krispy Kreme doughnut.  Now I need to get back into Weight Watchers mode.  It will be good to have Terry's healthy influence.

Tea Party

These two hats would have worked for either kind of party.

 Not the political kind, but not very English either.   It was a RS tea party with hats, but no tea.  We had a great potluck dinner, but no cucumber sandwiches.

Kristy's hat was the big winner, and I mean BIG - Blue Cow gift card.  Her hat also matched the ribbon jello that she brought.

This hat made me laugh all night.  She said she was going for a Cleopatra look, but didn't have enough ribbon.

This would have been my 2nd place pick.  Her inner scrapbooking came out.  It was lovely, but not very British.

Pretend like the sun is setting.  I don't know what happened to the color.  I could fix it in Picasa, but it's not worth it.

It cracks me up that Kristy is as tall as Kay with her hat on.

This was my hat.  I don't know why anyone would vote for it, but it took 2nd place, and I took home a big candy bar.

Lunch at Locavore

I went to lunch with friends Mary and Lydia today.  We met in Bowns Crossing.  It was so close I could have ridden my bike over, but it was over 100 degrees.  We ate at Locavore and it was yummy.  I like it when everyone orders something different.  Lydia had one of my favorites, a portabello panini, so I couldn't have that, but it sounded really good.  Mary had another of my favorites, an Aunt Pat, which is turkey sandwich with mango chutney (or sometimes apricot marmalade).  I chose a panini with ham and swiss which was very good.  Locavore is right in my neighborhood, but I was the only one who hadn't been there.  They use a lot of local produce and foods.  I'll take Terry back because they have a salad sampler.  He always wants to go get a salad.  I always want something hot.

Here's the best of our lunch conversation:

•  A review of HGTV shows we like, and use to like.  We all still miss Trading Spaces.
•  Book reviews - what we're reading.  I want to read the Cleopatra book that Lydia is reading, but   it's over a thousand pages.  I don't think it will happen.
• BBC movies and TV shows.  I need to do Netflicks, or at least go to the library for Pirot and a few others.
• I need to see both Marigold Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom.
• I told them about my cousin running with the bulls.
• And the #1 hot topic...Lydia's sister-in-law knows people who are members of the same country club as Katie Holmes' parents.  When they first got together, Lydia reported at one of our Oscar Night parties, that Katie's parents were not happy about it at all.  Now Lydia is leaving for a family wedding and she'll be getting the scoop for us straight from her sister-in-law, who is friends with people who are friends of Katie Holmes' parents!

All the Way from Alice Springs, Australia

A co-worker, our counselor at Trail Wind, has spent the last year teaching 3rd graders in the Northern Territory of Australia.   Her husband took a two year contract to work there, and she found something to do too.  Alice Springs is a town in the middle of nowhere with about 29,000 people.  They are having a big adventure. 

Connie is in Boise visiting for a couple weeks, so we had a little get-together in the school nurse's back yard.  It was interesting hearing about her class.  The Aborigine children have no rules at home, so they're a little hard to fit in the system.  They're also horrible at math.  I guess their culture has no need for math.  They count, "one, two, three, a lot" (except they have a different word for a lot). 

It's hard work and a lonely place, but Connie and her husband are meeting people from all over the world, learning about the culture, enjoying the beauty, and working hard.  If they were LDS, it would be like a mission, except with vacation time.