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July already! Summer finally started here a few days ago (after a long wet cold spring) and it has been hot!

Too hot to hoot!

Nope, no hooting going on around here, no sir.

We’re doing the Oxbow CSA this year! It’s so exciting! Our first box came yesterday, and it was full of beautiful things. As you can see.

In fact, there are a number of items that didn’t make it into the picture (I was just doing some prep for dinner and suddenly realized I had to take a picture because it was so lovely) like two big heads of gorgeous lettuce and bunches of spinach and rainbow chard. YUM YUM VEGETABLES!

The new palindrome is here! The new palindrome is here!

Step on no pets.

It’s a contrast from the past few. True that it’s leaning toward a PSA sort of feeling there, yes. So be it.

Little M had a chance to play in a fountain a bit on Sunday. I was SO glad I had my camera with me.

The fountain is neat — it’s got turtles and frogs, the water arcs out of the mouths. One comes on, then about ten seconds later it goes off and another comes on, then a whole bunch come on at once, then they all go off. Then one comes on….

By the end of the video, a small crowd had gathered. Some were taking pictures and videos of their own. Most of the voices in the video (besides hers) are other spectators, sometimes talking about her, sometimes talking to their own children in the fountain.

So now you see the sheer volume of cuteness we are living with on a daily basis. It is a veritable Live Action Cute Overload extravaganza over here. (And every day we know how lucky we are.)

Time for a new palindrome! And I must say, I am happy that May is here. Maybe spring will be here soon.

O, cat taco!

Yes, cats again. And again, not very nice to the cats. One might think I don’t like cats. But I do. So, cats two months in a row. Probably too early to call it a theme. More like a cat… flavor. Er, maybe that’s not the best choice of words either. How about… a thing? A cat thing. There you go.

Someone’s dream job anyway… not mine. Not that I don’t love the lolcats. I just can’t imagine looking at 9000 raw entries per week, much less per day. I think I wouldn’t like lolcats very much after a few days of that.

But oh! Hey! i can has cheezburger lives in Seattle! I did not know that.

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First, I have to say: “Jubilee!” is a word I picked up while reading all of Finslippy’s archives the last few weeks. Thank you, Alice, for giving me a new word, a new exclamation.

Second, Jubilee! Because I have fixed my printer! It has been showing an amber light for years, and refusing to print (for years!), and all this time I have been making do with other printers that are not on my desk. Just now, having decided to try replacing the toner (even though I was sure that wasn’t the problem), I wrestled the old cartridge out, and Lo! And Behold! There was a piece of paper resting where pieces of paper shouldn’t be resting. Removed the paper, stuck the toner cartridge back in, and the amber light went off and the green light went ON! And the printer proceeded to print the job I sent to it this morning.

Aaaaah.