been kinda slow updating here lately. in little news, there was another butterfly in the yard.




in much, much bigger news, ripley got a small piece of my gelato cone.





in medium-sized news, we only leave the house if we have to, and we really only have to to shop for food and to exercise the dogs. (you can see by ben's expression here, what summertime is like for us.)





but the biggest news of all of course is the carnival that was directly (you can see, very directly) outside our front door for ten days. we took quite a few pictures of it. and we miss it now that it's gone! but it's kinda nice to have the field back. we are just waiting for the return of the saxaphone guy.