highlights

 

another weekend has come and gone, another week begins.

this morning, when i got up to feed the cat, i found that E's mom had snuck in and left a large plate of chocolate chip cookies on the kitchen counter. thank God i cleaned the kitchen and vacuumed the living room last night!!

the cat, incidentally, enjoys serenading us with the song of her people multiple times during the night. usually this earns her a pillow thrown at the bedroom door, but at least once every night she gets a cuddle session on the couch. i have the strange feeling that this is preparing me for parenthood.

friday was National Doughnut Day!! :

 

 the peonies are in full bloom:

E found her old Nintendo system:

 (and i spent so many hours playing Super Mario 3 that i developed a raw spot on my left thumb and had to cut myself off.)

i'm not lacking for intellectual stimulation, however - here's my current books-in-progress pile:

the beets succumbed to the rampant bunny population (they've also sheared off two tomato plants, the furry little bastards, and chomped a watermelon leaf), but we have corn and beans in progress:

 and on saturday, we sprayed bunny repellent around all three garden plots. let me tell you about this repellent, lol...the very first ingredient on the label is, i kid you not, "putrescent whole egg solids", and when E attempted to connect the spray nozzle to the container, the container exploded like a shaken bottle of Coke...in the garage. this stuff, OMG. this stuff is so rank and foul that not even the flies would go near it! needless to say, we could not get into the shower fast enough! (and then we had a lovely naked post-shower nap, so hey, the whole thing ended well.) unfortunately, it rained allllll yesterday morning, so we're going to have to re-apply the putrescent whole egg solids. sigh. i sure do love our farm life, though - even when it stinks!