Let’s go light with it this week- mostly because that was pulling from the depths and staying vulnerable last time… and also I have, like, so many memes. I also will just jump from pic to pic ahead of the memes and hopefully an image of the last few weeks comes through. There are no pics of the rain, but there has been lots of rain too.

First up though- pictures from life.

Words CANNOT DESCRIBE the annoyance of being left handed and having a camp chair that only has a right hand cupholder. Frankly, it’s the worst thing to ever happen to a minority group, ever.

As all our previous ones crapped out I bought a new (and first time ever) matching set of camp chairs that had the two things I require: a left hand side cupholder and a mesh back so they are not blazingly hot in Texas summers.

I could not find any with those requirements in stores and so had to order them online, frivolous and minor as this inconvenience is for only me, the single left handed person in the family.

But I bought the chairs and now have a set and I look at them and wonder how the hell I’m going to get them all to the beach on our trip coming up now that I no longer have a cage that fits on the trailer hitch of the car. A problem I leave in future me’s capable and annoyed hands to figure out.

As addictions go, drugs would be cheaper.

I did SOOO many batches of cooking grapes and breaking them down this week. (We did the harvesting and washing last week). My neighbor and I now have over 8 GALLONS of grape juice in our freezers to turn into wild grape jelly. It was a hell of a harvest this year. I also leave this task in future me’s capable and filling-up-quickly hands.

My oldest daughter works at the fine dining steakhouse here in town and says my fillet and pancetta wrapped asparagus are better than the $150 ones at her work. Huzzah!

He falls in 2/3 of the time and yet still insists on hanging out each evening. Little velvet paws be slippery, I guess.

The joy Asher feels when the kittens are locked out of the room… palpable.

I could never in a million years land that top knife like that again if I tried.

My friend sent me this tiny magnetic vase last year and it makes me smile to have at my desk.

I have another friend who is a potter and had her first public sale and I stocked up on her pieces- the mug and the bowl below are both from her. And sure- I did it to support her- but also so I got to buy a bunch of stuff and THEN tell her she should really raise her prices. Check out this folded mug- in spite of how you’d think, it is so easy to drink from, cleans up easily, and fits in the hand perfectly. She’s so talented.

We went to the McNay art museum again recently (me and the children) and I again wondered why I find this one still life so ominous and unsettling… but I do.

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In no order I give you: shit-ton of memes.

See you next time and around the bend.