Weekend art work. Somehow, painting turned into finger painting...
A special date with just my boy. A trip to the zoo with two things on the agenda: ride the train and ride the carousel. We accomplished both of those and then he was ready to go! Haha! And it turned out to be a good thing because it started pouring as soon as we got in the car. So we stopped for donuts at the bakery down the road and headed home.
When I first saw this little booger, I thought "Oh my gosh! I have to get a picture to show the kids!" And also that this must be our garden visitor this year, since we have one every year. Well! Little did I know, this is not a catterpillar of any kind. It's some sort of tomato "worm" thing. It doesn't get into the tomatoes themselves (although it does eat some of them, leaving wide, gaping wedges missing), but rather it eats almost all the foliage from the plant itself so that the tomatoes have little tools to reach the nutrients from the sun. I could have gotten him out of there, had I known! Instead, little by little, the leaves disappeared and I was left with bare branches sticking up like twigs. :( We still have plenty of tomatoes, but they're just not as abundant as years past. P.S. - the head of this thing is at the bottom. It totally grosses me out now.
A second trip out to pick blueberries. And it's still unreal to me that we wore long sleeves and pants! That's just unheard of for blueberry season! Usually, we are dripping with sweat by the end of picking.
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