Vanity, thy name is Natalie.

Yes, use my mascara without permission. Rub stolen lipstick all over your face. That's really sanitary that is, and it's a great color on you. NOT! :)

Caitlin's Garden 2006

Well, hopefully I'll do better next year... I say that every year!
I never got my tomatoes staked and had to pick them off the ground. I had a ton of cucumbers but didn't pickle any. And my giant tower of beans made a lot of beans, but not as many as I would have expected for such a looming structure. Next year maybe bean teepees. What's left of my entire crop of delicious turnip-shaped carrots is in the fridge in a bag - I had to pick them all because deer were. We ate some and they were delicious. The deer have moved on the the beets, which I guess I care less about. Not my carrots! :)

Pirate Doggy!

Just the cutest doggy ever! He hardly minds the torture he's put through, I swear!

Pics from the Tunbridge Fair

Our first trip to the Tunbridge Fair.
Boy that dumb-looking woman in front of Mommy and Papa ruined the picture, but I cut her out, which helps a little. :)

Devil Chicken! This is a polish chicken. The farmer said they're real bastards, but after he keeps one in a cage by itself for a few months it calms down a fair amount. (!) Then he reached in to pull one out so I could see up close and the thing practically took his arm off. Look, Devil horns! Anyway, perhaps despite their coll hairdo, a breed of chicken that wants to kill me may not be the one for me.

Desk Decor :)

While searching for some guitar music in one of our many bookshelves this weekend, Jim came across a little clump of desk decor that I had up around my desk before I started painting the office. I thought I'd share :)

Click this to see it bigger. Totally worth it. :)

Happy Birthday Alexe!

Happy Birthday Alexe! Kagan better get you nice presents and pamper you even extra, after making you sleep in a truck bed for a month with no running water!
I believe (Happy Wife = Happy Life) and I should think the inverse would be true as well. *kisses&love!*



So Saturday morning I wake up, crawl over and curl up pretty much _on_ Jim, wrap my arms around his neck...

Me: "tell me you love me!"
Jim: "I love you."

Me: "Whisper me sweet nothings!"
Jim: (thinks for a minute) ... "Frequently, you smell nice."

Me: (screeching) "HEY! That means that SOMETIMES I SMELL BAD!"
Jim (smug as can be) "Well that's what you get on a command performance."



And now, for your viewing pleasure, photographic evidence of us muuuurdering chickens. The extra roosters - not the pet birds. Thank Natalie for the unauthorized paparazzi presence. Through the kitchen window - we had no idea. :)

Talk Like a Pirate!

I promised myself I would figure out my new camera and make dozens of posts of the stuff we've been up to - the week in cape cod, Carla & Andy's Pirate Party, the FIRST EGGS from our hens (sorry we ate those, no pics :) ) Harvest Market, New flower beds, Kagan & Alexe's Cabin-inna-woods... but I haven't figured out getting pictures off of it yet. Or how to use the fax machine either. But here's to cheatin' - pics taken by our new pirate mates after giving us our new pirate names (not our fault) on our pirate day outing. I daresay we were a lot of scalliwags, though Jim n I had by far the least rum!

Pirate Fookinandy

Pirate Bazoom