Just a few pictures from our current trip to the sea…
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Little Bunny Fou Fou
Remember this:
That's the side of our house this past spring that we dug and planted recently to look like this:
Fully confident that soon it will look like this:
Until this guy came along:
Who, in my mind, looks like this:
BECAUSE HE'S EATING EVERYTHING!
I sprayed soap after I noticed that he was hitting up the liriope pretty heavily, and the dr. bronner's only seemed to increase his appetite because he mowed that down and as of this morning had attacked the iris sprouts. So, no more Mr Nice Guy. I'm getting some of that ugly lawn fencing to give him one more chance, and then after that it's the have-a-heart trap and foraging a new life in some distant wilderness. Grace chases him whenever we catch him in the yard, but he's fast and sneaky (which is remarkable considering how full he must feel) and seems immune to whatever terrible things Grace says to him as she runs at him barking. How can I dislike a living, adorable bunny this much? Because he's nibbling away at my gardening delusions one hop at a time. Down with the rabbit! Whew, just had to get that off my chest!
Punk U Nation
Well, since finishing Vicki's book I looked around and realized that my stack had dwindled to one rather large book that I think I'm saving for our upcoming beach trip (I'm at work and can't remember the name–shame, shame.) and so I headed to the book store to pick up a new book. I grabbed the latest by David Sedaris, When You are Engulfed in Flames, and started the first page in my car. As it's a grueling 85+ degrees outside, I didn't make it much further than that because I needed to get some air moving in the car, but I am now waiting anxiously to be able to hit the pillow tonight and dive right in.
While at the bookstore I also perused some of the reference books and found a book that about punctuation that had me laughing out loud. That's right, laughing about punctuation. Just crazy. Lynn Tuss wrote the book in 2003 (pardon me for being a little late on the draw) and it is called, Eats, Shoots and Leaves and here is what's touted on the back:
"A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons. “Why?” asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder. “Well, I’m a panda,” he says, at the door. “Look it up.” The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. “Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
It's a little corny, but it hit home with me because, as I'm sure everyone has noticed, I have a bit of diarrhea of the comma. I can't help myself (ok, ok, obviously I can stop with the commas!) I use commas like breaths, and apparently I take a lot of breaths while talking. I notice it on the blog especially because I am generally dashing thoughts off and rarely have a chance to re-read what I write. Then, months later I'll be looking back and just shaking my head at the rampant punctuation fallacies. So, I didn't buy the book–yet–but I am thinking more about my grammar, and I will be doing my part to at least think a bit more as I'm typing, if not do something totally crazy like proof read. As I'm not doing that this time, please feel free to delight in the irony of any of my mistakes this go round, and a very happy reading to you all!
I should just stop apologizing…
The thing is, I always want to wait until I have that stolen moment to transfer pictures from the camera to the computer to the internet, but in truth, time is a little tight so, today we're having a picture-less post. As you can see, we do in fact have a picture! Here are some reasons why I've been tardy with my posting:
-Drew's ten year high school reunion: We flew to Baton Rouge for Drew's reunion and had a ball. We ate crawfish, saw (met, in my case) old friends, briefly caught up with family and desperately tried to adjust our Virginia spoiled bodies to the extreme humidity. Upon our arrival home, we drove to Nelson County and house-sat for Mom and Skip because…
-My sister Shelle and her family came for a visit! They drove cross country from Colorado, and after a trip to the beach with Mom and Skip we had a chance to catch up with them on Wednesday and Thursday nights. I have to say that I am smitten with my two nephews Alex and Nick (6 and 8, respectively) and after not having seen them since last summer, it was a pleasure to be able to be in the company of these two guys!
-My Aunt's book, In a Dark Season, has occupied the free moments that I have had! Vicki's latest (and possibly my new favorite) is set in December and both her snow laden story and chilling descriptions have kept me cool and on the edge of my seat for the last couple of days. I don't want to say too much, but you can read more about Vicki, and the setting for Elizabeth Goodweather's life at her blog, and of course you can always buy this, and all of her books on Amazon. How's that for shameless family promotion? :)
-The Garden (update): our little tiny city garden is thriving–we have only harvested herbs so far, but we have lots of blossoms on the squash, tomato and pepper plants and the collards and kale are finally looking like they're in it to win it. I purchased yellow, orange and red tomatoes from a local farmer yesterday and we had quinoa pasta with the sauteed tomatoes and basil, and a summery lemon and some parmesan on top, and all I could think about was how much I can't wait until those tomatoes are from our own garden. After what seemed like endless amounts of rain this Spring, it seems that last year's pattern of only a little rain every couple of days is back to haunt us, so hopefully all of those rain dances I've been doing will start to pay off!
