I know, posting around here has become as rare as the last steak I tried to cook on our bbq. Sorry. Here’s what’s been floating around in my brain the last while…
Is it just me, or does everyone have houseflies that look like they’ve been on steroids? Seriously, these suckers are huge. And slow. Which thankfully makes them easy to swat in mid-flight.
On a related note, the moths seem a bit, umm, messier? this year too. Like last year, when I would go on my nightly Moth Slaying Rampage, they would leave a little dusting on the wall where they were hit, but this year they leave dust and slime. Much grosser. Like they needed to be grosser.
I’m totally looking forward to Fall – the cooler weather, less humidity, school, routine…everything. I’ve already done most of Berry Boy’s school shopping and I was like the parent in the Staples commercial dancing up and down the store aisles singing “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”. Thankfully, Berry Boy is looking forward to it too, and his teacher this year is super awesome.
I’m (still) having serious motivation issues. In everything. Housework, cooking, reading, devotional time, gardening, running…I’m not sure what to do. It’s like I’m maintaining the bare minimum in everything, but no more. And it’s not because I’m just so busy, although we have been fairly busy, but not overwhelmingly so. I kind of feel stuck.
I’ve been listening to the song “Lover Lover” by the Jerrod Niemann Band – it’s super catchy and has such a great blues-ey feel to it. Berry Boy has apparently been listening too, and I overheard him singing it the other day, but he was (I thought) singing “Robber, robber robber, you don’t treat me good no more…”. When I told him that the words weren’t actually “robber robber” he looked at me funny and said, “I was singing Robert Robert”. I didn’t tell him what the actual words are. “Robert Robert” is just way funnier.
Berry season has come and gone. Definitely not our best year ever, in fact it was our worst. Too much rain and humidity and we couldn’t spray enough to defeat the fungus and disease. So we took in about a third of what we did last year. Surprisingly, I had a ton of fun in the shop with the kids who work for us. Some of those girls made me laugh so hard – I truly enjoyed getting to work with them this year, even if I disliked the actual work. It was a pleasure to be in charge of the sorting this year with a group like that.
Our old, deaf Golden Retriever is no longer with us (don’t ask) and I think that our younger black mutt is missing her. I’m contemplating taking her to run with me – we got her as a puppy and she was kind of obnoxious in the beginning, but now she’s about 2yrs old and she’s settled down quite nicely. I kind of really like her, and I’m not the type to get attached to animals on this farm (they don’t always have a long life expectancy). I need to get a leash (our old one is missing) and try her out. I think she might do really well, and it might help get me out there.
Berry Baby has started to preface everything he says with “Should I…?” – as in “should I have a cookie?” or “should I come sit on your lap?” or “should I drink your coffee?”. He just gets cuter and cuter, that kid. They both do. Except when they’re fighting with each other, which is all the time. Definitely time for school to start.
