Sometimes, its the small things

Well hello readership!

We will be doing an anniversary post coming up (thanks to everyone for their well wishes!), but in the meanwhile this post has been brewing about in my brain and it's time to get it out to all of you!

Sometimes the smallest things seem to make the most difference. Here are a few "for instances" from our busy lives I wanted to share.

This, for lack of a better name (because we didn't want to name her) is our squirrel friend. This is a reference to good friend Kyla calling all of her girl friends her squirrel friends instead, and it just sort of stuck for this little girl. She crawled out underneath the shelter director's car, and Joyce (our licensed wildlife rehab-er) added us to her permit so that we could nurse this little one. She started out small and more friendly and as she grew she got more and more wild. We tried to handle her as little as possible, and by the time we took her to Tony (another rehab-er who takes them once they are done nursing, she was exactly the right amount of not people friendly. Score one for the good guys! Also notice her milk mustache.


This is our new knife holder!!! It mounts on the wall and holds the knives magnetically. This is such a small changed but so absolutely wonderful for a few reasons: 1. The original knife holder took up a lot of what small counter space that we had, and was consistently getting wet. 2. This sits right next to the stove and is handy for just grabbing what you need when you need it. 3. If someone tries to break into the house and the dogs aren't a sufficient deterrent, we can hide in the kitchen and throw knives at them. Personal safety; always first and foremost!




Last (but certainly not least) the weather has remained hot enough this week to justify putting in our air conditioners. They make coming back into the house after working in the garden so much more bearable. Central air would be nice, but then we'd miss out on the team building exercise of putting one of these suckers in a window! Such a pain to store and move, but so worth it when you can feel a little less sticky and gross.




That's all for now! We'll be back soon with more.

Love to all,
Justine and Nate