It misted and rained all day today, “hello clean air!” We went from an Air Quality Index (AQI) of near 200 to the twenties in 24-hours, “is that the sky up there?” We braised a beef stew all day, took a field trip to our neighborhood game store, and cozied-up:)

Watch out.

It’s smokey out there! We’re now a full week under smoke, but it’s getting…better?

How many toys and stuffies and games can we rediscover? Turns out, there’s still more to unearth.

The Easter Bunny seems to hop around here quite often:)

Gotta check!

Salon time! I’m so glad to have been able to make my appointment…also, getting my hair brushed is niiice.

Speaking of hair.

Crawling up the water spout…while the two loungers anchor the spout down:)

The kids in Meryl’s classroom are growing plants this year…and now we have one less plant to forget to water at home!

Let the day begin!

I was monitor stalking last night and noticed Frank trying to convince Meryl to wear her Chuck Taylor shoes tomorrow.

Meryl: Who’s Chuck Taylor?
Frank: A basketball player from a long time ago.
Meryl: So he died?

And to our surprise, she wanted to wear them this morning! It was worth a dance:)

It all started with Frank and our previous dog, Feta, and has now extended to Lummi and the kids. When you’ve got fly kicks, you’ve gotta show them off!

We cooked a lot this weekend!

Lola’s zucchini garden is prolific and Lorraine sent us a recipe for zucchini meatballs…so, aprons on! We also read that you can freeze shredded and drained zucchini to use later, and into the freezer it went! Note Meryl’s glasses - without lenses - to protect her eyes from the onions:)

We appear to have shredded more than zucchini this weekend.