today's news

Sing along with me, Queen fans...

"Somebody, somebody
Can anybody find meeeeeee somebody to love?"

Maybe some people are not meant for anyone?

Okay, onto cheerier subjects, of which there are several.

I was surprised to look out my window this morning and see how much things have changed. Amazing what happens in ten days. The ducks are flying. The corn is so tall! The apricots are ripe (more on that later). The chicks have grown so much.

And the baby barn swallows were just pinkies when I left! Look at them now, I had no idea there were five!

I went to the post office to pick up my mail and was pretty blown away to read what I got from State Fair. You know how I always say it must be a fluke when I get something accepted there? Well guess what, I got TWO pieces in the art show this year!!!!! Yee haw! They accepted "Aragorn at One Year" (geez Jen, all this free publicity for your horse) into the equine art category, and "Jessie" into the drawings category. Hmm, 12 days in which to get it framed... That's so awesome, I can't believe I got two pieces in the show! :-)

This evening I decided to pick "a few" apricots. Well, I realized when I went out there that they are pretty much all ripe right now, which means they all need to come off the tree within the next couple days, so "a few" became two buckets full, which barely made a dent. I pitted them and ran the whole lot through the grinder and oh my goodness I have enough puree in the fridge for six batches of jam. Um, that's insane. I mean, I'll do it if people are interested, but that's probably somewhere between 50 and 60 half pint jars. So, jam anyone? $5 per half pint jar, shipping $12 for up to 6 jars.

My schedule feels all out of whack. This ought to be early for me but I think I'd pretty well adjusted to mountain time and gotten into the habit of going to bed much earlier than I normally do! That is actually a habit I should strive to maintain, hmm.