thursday

it was nice and cool this morning... a perfect morning for making blueberry muffins.
madd thought so, too.

we went out into the garden, the three of us, for a little while, to see what was happening.

one of us got the plums ready for another holiday batch of Plum Brandy

while another played zootycoon2
and the last one drew pictures of friends and playgrounds.

tidying up. (i don't know how it happened that our house got messy yesterday when were we were gone all day, but evidently it did.)

friends!

kneading dough...

for pretzels

 (a knot, pretzel shapes, a snail, an "s", an atomic ring -er... that would be Damek's, :) - and a square.

pickin' raspberries

 an' grapes

wiiiiiii

snack

play

 movie

puzzles

jump!

caterpillar

more jump!

goodbye to friends...

create!

readin'.
Some Porcupines Wrestle.
(another great library book, this one with such treasures as:
    "Right after he hatches, the male anglerfish grabs onto his sister with his teeth and 
    hangs the skin of the female actually grows around him.  He is now a part of her.  
    As the female grows, the male remains a small addition growing out of her skin, 
    becoming useful only when he is needed to fertilize her eggs.")
woh.


mancala
(for both)

Peep

a quiet movie,
reading,
and reading.

all perfect accompaniments for cold(ish) and clouds and dark.
love that!
for today, anyway.