Rain for two days. They expect rain for two more. It is good for the plants, but it slows us down, and it makes the kids a little antsy. They want to be outside, riding their bikes or otherwise running around. They are slow to nap because they haven't had the same exercise they usually have. Today I realized that Noah is suddenly evolving into a young boy. This is good, in that it means he tries harder to do big kids things and he's getting good at them. But it is bad, because it challenges us to set new kinds of limits. He is emotional, making him warm and loving and (sometimes) irritable. Marcela and Maxim have begun drawing a mural on the wall of the kids' room. More accurately, Maxim has drawn a mural on her wall with a little bit of help from Noah, who drew a 'train,' ('No it isn't,' Maxim whispered) and from Marcela, who drew clouds, a bee, a bird, and a train. Maxim drew butterflies and dragonflies and flowers and a sun and two upsidedown ballerinas. Marcela is going to pick up paints this afternoon and make the best of a rainy weekend by putting color into the drawings. I painted one more small section
of the front of the house, right above the bay windows, but beyond that, we haven't put a dab of paint on the house since last Tuesday and may not be able to paint again until next Tuesday. We have stopped working outside, but the squirrels haven't. This is what remains of the smaller of the two sunflowers growing by the back fence. The squirrels bit it off cleanly and dropped it to the ground, where they broke it in half, ate part of one side on the spot and took the other half with them up the backyard Norway spruce tree. I didn't see this with my own eyes, instead I found
these sunflower seed husks and pedals caught in this spider's web in the nook of the fence directly below the squirrels' nest in the Norway spruce. The squirrels were no where to be seen. The spider was probably as annoyed with the squirrels as I was. I did not want them to eat my sunflower seeds. I wanted to eat those myself. And the spider needed that web to catch insects, and look at it now (you have to click on the photograph to see it full-sized). It is filled with the squirrels' compost pile. But I do not think the squirrels are very bothered by that. "What's a spider and a human got to do with anything?" They probably ask themsleves.
Rain for two days. They expect rain for two more. It is good for the plants, but it slows us down, and it makes the kids a little antsy. They want to be outside, riding their bikes or otherwise running around. They are slow to nap because they haven't had the same exercise they usually have. Today I realized that Noah is suddenly evolving into a young boy. This is good, in that it means he tries harder to do big kids things and he's getting good at them. But it is bad, because it challenges us to set new kinds of limits. He is emotional, making him warm and loving and (sometimes) irritable. Marcela and Maxim have begun drawing a mural on the wall of the kids' room. More accurately, Maxim has drawn a mural on her wall with a little bit of help from Noah, who drew a 'train,' ('No it isn't,' Maxim whispered) and from Marcela, who drew clouds, a bee, a bird, and a train. Maxim drew butterflies and dragonflies and flowers and a sun and two upsidedown ballerinas. Marcela is going to pick up paints this afternoon and make the best of a rainy weekend by putting color into the drawings. I painted one more small section 
of the front of the house, right above the bay windows, but beyond that, we haven't put a dab of paint on the house since last Tuesday and may not be able to paint again until next Tuesday. We have stopped working outside, but the squirrels haven't. This is what remains of the smaller of the two sunflowers growing by the back fence. The squirrels bit it off cleanly and dropped it to the ground, where they broke it in half, ate part of one side on the spot and took the other half with them up the backyard Norway spruce tree. I didn't see this with my own eyes, instead I found 
these sunflower seed husks and pedals caught in this spider's web in the nook of the fence directly below the squirrels' nest in the Norway spruce. The squirrels were no where to be seen. The spider was probably as annoyed with the squirrels as I was. I did not want them to eat my sunflower seeds. I wanted to eat those myself. And the spider needed that web to catch insects, and look at it now (you have to click on the photograph to see it full-sized). It is filled with the squirrels' compost pile. But I do not think the squirrels are very bothered by that. "What's a spider and a human got to do with anything?" They probably ask themsleves.
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