consider my day made

i just got ID'd at the dep. i shoulda known it was coming when i asked for cider and the woman behind the counter directed me to the apple juice.

now where did i put my skittles....

this is scary.

this is the current view from my parent's balcony in the okanagan, the 7000 hectare Terrace Mountain fire. at this point 2500 people have been evacuated and about 2200 are on alert. the fire is 30% contained - i don't know if that's hopeful really.

the birdhouse, massachusetts

i just got back from visiting alec at shire village camp in massachusetts where he's working for the summer. it was all misty and beautiful.

we nerded out. a lot.

the cutest kid there.

alec's birdhouse:

inside. notice his sarong draped over the chair.

it rained all day saturday so we checked out the Montague Book Mill whose slogan is "books you don't need in a place you can't find."


alec found a book on cooking with thistles (tough guy) and i got this:


do the words Starlight Llama Solar beckon you? they summoned alec and i when we read them in a phonebook in the B&B section. the place really lived up to its name - a magical solar-powered little farm, home to two amazing hosts, a handful of peacocks, two emus, llamas, chickens, a dog with ragweed allergies, one complicated teenager, a stack of pumpkin pancakes and a cat. these pictures really don't do it justice, go there if you can.