We really lucked out at the zoo this morning. We arrived at the zoo a couple of minutes before the 10am opening and left around 11:45. We left just as the sky was opening up and dumped buckets(cats! dogs! entire herds of cattle!) of rain on us as we ran to the car. Squidge had a… [Continue Reading]
Misc mind mumbles
Yesterday my parents left for Portugal. It’s been pretty quiet here since they left. I went grocery shopping and basically puttered around the house. I also watered the flowers and 5 minutes later it rained (biblical torrential rain). I bet the neighbors thought it was weird. The sky did look dark and ominous but you… [Continue Reading]
Refreshingly Different!
Even in the city we’re a little bit country
On Saturday morning around 8am I was outside helping my Dad move 2 cords of firewood to the backyard. Now we’re city folk here and our yard isn’t that big still it was biiiiig enough. I’m supposed to be on holiday here and what am I doing on what felt like the hottest day of… [Continue Reading]
Terrible Two’s
Do you remember the feeling you had the first time someone left you in charge of something really really important? Like a newborn or large sums of money. The kind of responsibility that if you screw up you’ll go to jail and you get just a teeny bit jittery because shit this is biiig time. … [Continue Reading]












