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My awesome friends Julia and Stu, the Garden Elves, put in a fab new garden box for me down on the curbside strip.

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So excited! So healing to get my hands back in the rich, dark earth and plant pretty baby plants again! Sam got this excellent picture of me watering with sunlight.

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Right after he went ninjawacky with the mallet. Mwahahaha!

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Watch out neighborhood!

Many grateful hugs to the garden elves for breaking sod for me and creating such a lovely garden for us.

More pics here.

I love it when the autumn temperatures drop and the trees blaze!

More pics of flametrees(and bagelly silliness) on flickr.

Happy fall!!!

I must admit, I do love my new White Wave steam cleaner, it’s been one of the benefits(and a mighty weapon) in my battle against the bugs.

Sam loves it too(nothing like a tool that looks like a ray gun and shoots tons of steam to get my boy to help clean).

More steamy(literally) pics here.

Btw, we are out of the House of Doom! YAY!!

Still have a tent full of bagged stuff to freeze, but it sure feels good to be outta there!

Yay shiny clean car!

Yes, we’re moving. This week. Yay!

My son’s school had a rockin’ fundraiser festival today-Whistlepig!

I painted cuffs on the fairgoers:

So much fun! And they kept me busy too, lining up for cuffs-I barely had time to sneak off and dancedancedance to the awesome tunes of 17th Chapter!

Pics.

Sam and I go for a scramble in the mucky gulches down at Matthew’s Beach Park and then find the perfect pole-vaulting stick!

Obviously, mayhem ensues.

Flickr’d pics here.

Sam and I go wiggy over our new cameraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-new to us anyway. Bought it used, a Canon PowerShot A650 IS.. Great fun so far, though I’m definitely going to need to buy a new memory card-this one only takes 5 pictures at a time! Sheesh.

*happy new camera dance!*

We had an awesome dinner party at Cafe Vios to celebrate his eleveniness!

Sam attempts to eat the cake in one fell gulp.

More pics here. And, here’s Rita’s flickr set, including my favorite shot:

Aw.

‘Twas a lovely snowy xmas, with much loot, sledding, feasting, mayhem and merrimaking.

More pics here.

The new Mountaineers climbing wall at Magnusson is extremely cool.

So extremely cool, in fact that it utterly defeated Sam and I.

Oh wells, we had fun goggling at it and chasing the resident crow away from our leftovers until he wickedly spilled both of our sodas in vengeance.. Then I took him(Sam, not the mettlesome corvid) to the Brig(where I teach clay class) and showed him the cool whale sculpture and the pea patch and we ate lots of raspberries and then went on a gelato procuring mission, starting with the kidnapping of BB so that she could come eat gelato and go walkies at Greenlake.

More wall, whale and walkies pics here.