Welcome Summer

...well, just about summer, anyway. I love it. I have noticed, though, that I am feeling the heat more this year than in years previous, and this may have a little something to do with *ahem* my chocolate cake and ice cream diet. I weigh more this summer than I did during my pregnant summer, actually. My friend A and I are planning on running walking shambling our way through a 5K soon, though, that'll fix me.

It has been an intensely busy month and then some. All is pretty well but we are working on the house and garden quite a lot. Home is the project that never ends, right? Among other projects, my friend J gave me an intensive lesson on landscaping (already put to very good use) and my brother and I just put an upholstered headboard on my bed (pre-fab, not homemade, but just Google "how to make upholstered headboard" and you will find great ideas that you too can implement if you are not also holding down a full time job, a side job, and raising a tiny child). The headboard makes the bed look massive -- too big for the small room -- but there is no denying it's a cozier place to read, which I do in bed more than anywhere else. I am a big fan of Terry Pratchett lately. What are you reading this summer?

Comments

[The Unusual FarmChick]

While searching out a drawing of a "farm chick", I came across your drawing of the "peep" chick. I knew I had to contact you to see what your feelings are about possibly "selling it" for my personal use as a logo. It being an unusual chick and all.
If you would be interested, please do send me an email. It is the perfect fit for my farmers market sign "entitled "The Unusual FarmChicks". My oldest daughter -10yrs- and I are doing our first market and am in the middle of making out our handmade sign.
please feel free to check out my blog before you come to a decision.
Thank you for your time.
~Tammie

[Lisa B.]

I am almost finished listening to a Terry Pratchett book called Nation. I liked it a lot. It's not from the Discworld series, though I like them too, very much. And I'm fixing to read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer. It's epistolary.