May 2017

monday

 We went to the nursery for flowers today. That’s an overgrown puppy, surrounded by trash and chew toys. Oh look.  There’s a fresh sprinkler wetting down the tomatoes. At that point my hands smelled like geraniums and tomatoes and the baby was just up from her nap. love, Val

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a may weekend

 Here he is, posing for me on the stump. Here they are, tying a guy to the basketball hoop, no idea why.  Water slide toy, filled with nice, warm water on the deck: Frisbee:  At one point, the outside-the-tub cousin dumped a big cup of water over the inside-the-tub cousin’s head. Bad idea. Never do

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two

This baby girl turns two in a couple days.  Last weekend was her Curious George birthday party. Many monkeys were there:  They’re all looking at their phones here, but they haven’t seen each other in a few weeks, and the laughing went on and on:  Her, little girl blasted out of her mother’s body in

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