The Gods Must Be Crazy:

Goats and Bees

So John went out to find out where goats were getting through to a neighbors property, and eating his grape vines and fruit trees, of course, and fix the hole in our fence. He took a couple t-posts and some fencing. Then he came back and announced he'd taken a Band-Aid for a trauma patient. Which makes the second major fence gap we've got to deal with, brought to our attention by the goats.

We took John out to lunch for Father's Day, per Logan's plan, then stopped off at the neighbor's on the way back to see about chasing goats home. John reappeared at the car carrying Sid Vicious, the bummer lamb, already getting in to trouble! The goats in question had departed at the first sign of the authority. After taking Sid home, we went back and investigated where they are coming through from the neighbors side and thinks we can fix it with a couple of fence panels and t-posts until we have time to do the fencing properly on our side. One thing made a little easier in the short term.

Then I stopped to use the bathroom at home. And found a dozen honey bees already there ahead of me. In our closed house. I went to fetch John figuring this was a bad time to find out how much my bee-sting-allergy-shots had done to the allergy, and whether I'd have to use the epi pen I carry with me or not. John has now removed a couple dozen from the house, and investigated the outside. There is a fine bee entrance in our shingles, with quite a few bees coming and going from it. Great.

I know what to do. And, thanks to Marilyn's swarm last year, I've captured swarms on a ladder last year. I've also removed a hive from the walls of a building. I just didn't plan to do both those on my own damn house. Keith, who is interested in bees now, will come and help me with them, Thursday or Friday, unless I call him back about doing it sooner, (appointments Tuesday and Wednesday, and something tomorrow... although maybe I could change it... as John makes a second trip to remove new bees from the bathroom!) (Either that or I shower in the cabin for a few days!)

That does explain why I was hearing buzzing sounds around the bedroom but not seeing anything that produced those sounds the other evening. Maybe I'll go see if I hear more of them now.

Kid Speak:

We were supposed to go to a potluck in Eugene last night, but it got canceled due to the hostess's allergic reaction to a hornet or yellow jacket sting. (I should call her.) So we went anyway to celebrate now only owning one house again, and kindergarten ending for the year, and to visit Karine and Aryana (whose name has several more letters than that which I know I'm leaving out, but not what they are) Ian and Jeff. Logan napped on the way and then chattered all the way home.

Logan: "what was that white thing the dentist put in your mouth?"

Last dentist appointment was a tooth cleaning that she didn't' attend, three weeks ago.

John and I "what white thing? Tooth paste?"

Logan: "Not toothpaste. It wasn't attached to anything."

Bafflement.

Me: "I don't know. I don't remember any white thing. Without more clues I don't think I can answer."

Logan: "Maybe the dentist will know, I'll ask him."

John: "That's a good idea."

Logan: "It looked like a marshmallow."

John: "sounds like cotton."

Logan "Why does he putt cotton in your mouth?"

Me: "Sometimes they put cotton between your cheek and teeth to make more space."

Logan: "What's a teetk?"

John: "she said Cheek."

Logan: "She said teek too. Between your cheek and teek."

John: "Between your Cheek and Teeth."

Logan: "But why did Penelope say teek?"

And it continued to dissolve from there. Oh the efforts of a tired five year old. Logan's dinner consisted of Edamame (green soy beans), quail egg sushi (raw quail eggs on top of rice wrapped in sea weed) one piece of my tempura vegetables, one piece of my tamago sushi (egg omelet on top of rice with a band of seaweed) and a bowl of rice with soy sauce. And lemonade. With much discussion and sniffing of John's fish sushi, and one salmon egg to feel and play with. Oh and a Pineapple Orange milk free sorbet cone at the playground with Karine's family for desert.

Another Server Move

According to John, according to Ruzz, the blog fixing guy, there's going to be a move of the physical computer parts that hold the blog, and some of our email accounts, and Chocolate Alchemy, and who knows what else that isn't ours. So at some point web pages will be down for a bit -- probably measured in days, rather than hours or weeks, but don't hold your breath in either direction. You can still reach us through my main email, or the usual phone numbers, and so on. And provided it doesn't happen before I can remember to do it, I'll post a couple more Logan pictures before then too.

Yes, the post before this one just appeared with yesterday's date on it. I did it yesterday, but things were down, so it didn't show up until today.

Loose Tooth

Logan's first loose tooth is becoming looser and looser, and today, after showing Kyle, at Lorane Little School, Kyle noted she could see the new tooth growing in behind the old. We looked, and lo and behold, not one but two new teeth are visible!


two new tooths

Actually holding still (with John's help) to have the picture taken, and holding her mouth open to not hide the teeth was quite a trick.

Rose Kindergarten at Eugene Waldorf finished for the year yesterday (for those of you not up to date, due to Logan's late fall birthday, she'll still have another year at Rose Kindergarten, which she looks forward to greatly,) with ceremony for the six children moving up into first grade next year, and reminders for the others that next year they'll be the "big ones" who know how the kindergarten works and are teaching the new children who are just beginning.

I'll write more, in time, the last couple weeks of school were quite a roller coaster ride, in many ways more for the adults than for the Logan sized children. Seeing the 8th grade graduates, and the other grades perform at the final assembly really impressed both John and me, and John is hoping to volunteer more time next year to the school in general as well.