mama twins

I made another mama cat with the intention of making her as close to this mama cat as possible. They are a lot alike, but not the same, because faces come out difference every time. It's just the way it is

My mother came out to visit me last weekend, and she brought my aunt along with her. We had a very nice time doing nothing too terribly exciting. Their visit started out our visiting season, which is basically May through July this year, which is so nice because I was getting sick of March

The spring weather has inspired us to dig right into some house projects: I made simple white curtains for our bedroom to replace the broken roller shades, and Elie has taken a break from renovating the kitchen to dismantle the extra garage. Yup, we have an extra garage and it is huge, like 3 cars and a boat huge. Cars were obviously more important to the house's former owners than to us. We would rather have the land than the garage, and we've tried to sell it to other people who want a garage, but those deals have all fallen through.

So Elie is taking it apart, and we're going to scrap most of the metal and do lord knows what with the roof framing. The garage has a dirt floor, which smells very badly of motor oil and paint. We're going to till it up and plant things we won't eat, like buckwheat. The posts are cemented into the ground, so rather than dig them out, we're going to plant viney things like morning glories and beans to grow up the sides. We'll see how it goes--it's quite the project!