A video!

I finally took the time to figure out how to do this (i.e. buy video editing software). Now you might be bombarded with random clips of toddlers feeding the children on the Life Cereal box. Among other excitement. For now, here's Keira, showing off her vocabulary.

2nd try. Does this player work for you all? Let me know if not.

Pesto and Squirrels

I finally got around to using the lovely basil plants in my garden and making pesto like an italian grandmother. I was so curious to try my creation the next day, and lo and behold, it tasted like... pesto! Shocking, really. It reminds me of my first gardening attempts when I seriously thought to myself as I held an unopened packet of seeds, "I wonder what a green bean seed looks like." I was rather surprised to find that it looked like the seed inside a green bean. And tomato seeds looked like the seeds inside tomatoes. And peppers. And squash. Silly non-italian city girl. BTW, the squirrels ate my seeds that year within 3 hours of putting them out. Don't bother trying to grow anything on university premises. The squirrels have already laid claim.

Park Facilities and Cabbage

You know those new fangled toilets where somebody's watching you and as soon as you get up, they flush? Well, have you ever taken a newly potty trained tot in to use one where the "as soon as you get up" part is broken? If you've never had this experience, let me clue you in. It sounds like this: *Flush, whooooooosh, gurgle* (Repeat) "Eeeeeeeh. Eeeeeeeeh. Waaaaaaah." And it ends with, "I don't hafta go potty."

Oh, and I have another question for you. What do you do with a cabbage? I was recently gifted with a few garden goodies, one such goodie being a cabbage. It's not that I'm opposed to cabbage, it's just that, well, in my entire food buying life, I've never bought a cabbage. I see them, but it's never once occurred to me to buy one. Or to cook one. Or to eat one. But now that I have one, what do I DO with it? I'm sure you have some good ideas.