It has been an eventful weekend. Friday started out normal, first with my personal training workout(yay!) and then with a fantastic group of middle schoolers at the Garden. We put them to work weeding and trimming and sent them home with baggies full of fresh herbs (dill, basil, oregano, cilantro). However, that morning, M. noticed a mysterious ( Read more... )

A long-awaited Llama Blog update, but first a note from our sponsor ( Read more... )

Boy, am I glad for the invention of elastic waistbands! And lycra undergarments (I love you, Spanx!). Without them, this weekend's gluttony would have be considerably more uncomfortable and blobular-ly.

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You know you've done it.

Friday morning, pulling out of the apartment lot, I saw this chunky, shorebird-type bird with stilt legs. It was bigger than the usual passerines (robins, etc) that live in near my complex. My first thought was "what the hell is a semi-palmated plover doing in KS?" I also noticed, as it fled my car that it had a black ( Read more... )