Found Fun

Eamon has proven that we don't have to buy a fancy play mat. He's into "found art", as it were.

You can hear him talk to himself about it, although I didn't get the squealing on video... watch for his "happy feet".

Karma and Updates

Happy Fourth!

Ray would like you to try to guess scale in this picture before you keep reading.

We've been harassing Heather about the wet weather in Maine. We should know better, given that we're still getting daily thunderstorms. Last night, at midnight, we were sitting up in bed listening for the sirens that would send us to the basement. They never came, and the deluge eventually slowed, but we are wet. The pic above is from our compost pile. Which is next to the tomato plants, which would really appreciate a day or two where gravity is the worst force they have to fight to stay upright. And they're next to the boating gear I forgot to bring in, which is now WELL rinsed. Everything. Is. Wet. Here.

So Heather, karma wins. Everybody else, here are some more pretty mushrooms

Ray uses shredded paper for the "brown matter" in our pile. So I guess you have whatever that was, shredded, for scale up in the top left corner. The mushrooms are wee - about a cm across. They look more like some sort of confused tube worm or algae that lost its ocean to me.

And you might not know it from this blog of late, but we still have the cats. They're all doing pretty well, and even generally spend the days together on the main floor. Yup - four cats, one room. Bernie had some teeth pulled this week, so I wanted to let my parents see that he's doing okay. You can see the shaved patch on his left cheek.

Pretty much normal, otherwise.

I know, you're thinking "..yeah yeah, it's wet, whine, stinky compost, stinky boater gear, whine whine cats...this isn't why I come here! Where are the cute baby pictures?" Well, actually, I don't know that - I have to guess, so feel free to let me know what you're thinking via that "comments" button down there. I've tried to make it easier. :) But, if it was, well, here: random pics from several weeks ago that I hadn't found a good use for yet.

What's up? Not me.

And how could you not love the shark? It's pretty much too small now.. sniff.

Hope you all get the fireworks and grill food or whatever you want tonight! I think we may be staying inside watching "natural" fireworks like good Boulderites (that is, the real ones are going to be rained out with some more spectacular lightning).

edited to add:

1) We had ANOTHER hard rainstorm (although not the inch+ per hour that last night's apparently was). Those mushrooms? Now toast. Glad Ray got good pics while he could.

2) Fireworks were not rained out. And Eamon likes fireworks! He watched the whole show (plus the pre-show of people's small sparklers and such) with fascination, despite being up well after bedtime. That's my kid!

Well Protected

Hmmm, what's this you're strapping on me, Mom? Is it edible?

Ahh, this looks familiar...seems to have shrunk a bit.

Ok, Dad, I'm ready to go boating!

What? The rivers are how high?

I think this is actually apres-boating wear, right? I'll be over here looking handsome. **Class VI** handsome.