August 12th, Thursday

Blueberry pancakes!

August 9th, Monday

Zucchini bread! Made with monstrous zucchini.

August 8th, Sunday

Garden update:

The marigolds are doing great

The pole bean plant grew four whole beans:

Ehh, it's better than nothing

Monstrous zucchini!

August 7th, Saturday

I got a train case from the vintage store for my painting supplies

Nice.

M bought an old lady couch and she, Sam and I rolled it home on a dolly. It's really beautiful, but covered in boxes in the basement until September. Here's the print until I can get a real picture:

August 6th, Friday

Ohhhhh jesus, it's the Enchanted Forest

Old man spider

The bear looked really uncomfortable about this kid's arm being around him

Miss Muffet

Old man spider in real life!

Cupcake house

For Mary Anne

Mary's little lamb actually didn't want to go anywhere that Mary went.

I still have no idea why there were dogs and bunnies in these giant flowers

But they were cute

Yup.

This picture makes me yawn

Awkward, stoned caterpillar

Wut.

Tea party

LOST

OMG

Happy stump

M sized house!

There was a lot of really blatant ripping off of Disney at the Enchanted Forest, but apparently they couldn't go so far as to take actual dwarves' names, so they made up their own:

Which were actually way better than their Disney counterparts

Srsly.

Mines

!

Rip Van Winkle

This was papa bear

This was a wombat masquerading as mama bear.

Intrigue!

PUNS

Crooked house

This creepy dude lives in the crooked house:

It was slanted in real life.

O hai. Here he is with four eyes, playing a fiddle. Because that makes sense.

Little Red

Gnarly wolf

Female oppression! Also, the pumpkin looked like a tomato.

There was a giant slide inside the shoe! We rode it twice. The second time a park worker sprayed Lysol on the track so we could go faster.

Tofteville

If your name starts with W, F or H, the Enchanted Forest has some windchimes they'd like to show you. If it starts with anything else...too bad.

This is something my dad would appreciate

Cowboy hats.

NO BABIES ON THE SLIDE.

Teepee

Fake matterhorn was way smaller and propped up by plywood.

Whatevs it was still fun. And the line was shorter than for real Matterhorn

We found Jennifer Coolidge!!

God I love Jennifer Coolidge.

I don't remember where this was

Miniature train stuff

This might've been the creepiest display of all.

Tiny town!

Mushroom town?

Tiny tree!

Eh, this dog reminded us of Sunny. And it was a dog, period. So we took a picture.

Architecture.

Ghost to Falco seemed kinda not into it all. Maybe because it was 5pm and there was no alcohol? Idk.

Wampire was a bit of a hot mess and totally amazing. I wish they would turn up their vocals, because I kind of love them a lot.

August 5th, Thursday

Orchid progress!

II

August 1st, Sunday

We went to the International Test Garden. Here are a million pictures of flowers for you:

I

II

III

IV

Mmm butter flavor

Orange ones are my favorite

V

!

VI

VII

Mischief

Lil Darlin

Mmm

VIII

These ones were insane.

IX

Listen, Burnaby!

X

XI

DINNYLAND!

Idk why this sign was so homemade. Maybe it's more viking that way?

M

XII

XIII

Rose pun!

So romantic

XIV

This was the closest we came to finding a blue rose

XV

XVI

XVII

XVIII

XIX

XX

I'm glad this is over because I don't really know many more roman numerals.

August 31st, Saturday

MOM AND ZOEY

OMG MOM AND ZOEY

(Zoey totally wants Mom to be her Grandma. She wagged her tail to tell us. She knows what kinds of treats and toys and homemade outfits it will involve.)

August 30th, Friday

Mom and Dad arrived, and Mom made me this awesome quilt!

(They are pinwheels, not swastikas. We checked before the sewing began, I promise.)

She worked very hard to make the front live up to my very plain standards. She took a few more liberties with the back:

August 29th, Thursday

I saw Kirk from Gilmore Girls at the Back Fence reading! And he told an amazing, funny, endearing story about his gf having a staph infection of the boob when they first started dating! It made me love him even more.

His gf was awesome, too.

Okay that took forever.