Last night I stayed at Chautauqua Institution with my brother and his wife and baby who are visiting here. It's on Chautauqua lake, and there are concerts and things going on all summer long. Thankfully dogs are allowed. Skippy likes to put his feet in the water.
I am packing my bags now. Assuming all goes as planned, we will actually meet two very famous bloggers this weekend. Thanks for making those reservations Emma!
Monday, June 25, 2007
Today there was a surprise package for me in my mailbox. My friend Kaori went to Japan, and bought me some Hi Chew (the best Japanese candy) in these two exclusive flavors which are only sold in Okinawa. The green fruit on the bottom package is some kind of Okinawan fruit that I don't know the name of.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
I might have something new to post here soon. I guess there's just not much to say lately. But I always have plenty of doggie pictures. I need some coffee. I'm tired.
This big fat snake was crossing my walkway this afternoon.
He let me take a close-up.
These little butterflies are flying all over my yard. I suppose technically it's probably a moth. (We have a lot of dead grass in our lawn! It could use some rain.)
I was going through some old sketchbooks tonight and came across these doodles.
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Saturday we were grocery shopping, and when I went to buy a bag of Japanese rice, I noticed there were living winged insects inside the sealed bag! They were in there trying to fly! The only way they could have gotten in there is by recently hatching out of some eggs that were in the rice.
They say, if you keep flour long enough things will hatch out of it.
There's this tree behind our backyard that's some kind of a cotton tree or something, because it continually sheds cottony poof balls all over the neighborhood this time of year.
