Thank you all so much for responding to my last post -- it made me so incredibly happy to hear from you! If I could see each of you in person I would present you with this bouquet of clover, picked from our unmowed front yard by Joaquin and Lila Mae. Surely our bees have kissed each tiny flower, and we might even be able to share some honey made from these flowers in the future. So, thank you.

This bouquet is also an apology to any of you who subscribe to this blog by Feedburner, which "pings" my blog every thirty minutes looking for new content, not unlike some kids I know who ping me every thirty minutes for juice/the crayon box/lost shoes, etc.

In its hungry search for new content, Feedburner grabs ANYTHING that has been tinkered with, including old pages that I update for whatever reason, and as a result my blog has been blurting random pages at you, unbidden -- I am sorry. Please feel free to tell it to go sit back down, that someone will be paying attention to it soon. Also, the juice is in the door of the fridge and shoes are in the basket by the front door.