Slow day around town

It's kind of a yucky day -- overcast, humid, good chance of rain. A good time to think about home and hearth.

For the first time in almost a decade, Roy feels comfortable skipping a weekend vacuuming of the house. It looks as clean to us right now as it used to a day or so after vacuuming. The difference a big dog makes.

( a bunch of plant stuff )

A little food for thought...

From a ProteinWisdom poster, who says "he sounds like a moonbat, but he gets it."

http://www.flowidealism.org/Community/mp-michael-strong.html

Nooooo....

Thuggish bands of bald eagles decimating Great Cormorant population, threatening extinction

Backyard jamboree

It was a nice day to hack up a big hosta, one that's unlikely to die no matter how badly treated, so we did it.

( mostly for me but you can read if you like )