Rainbow carrots from our summer garden.
The awesome thing about summer in the Pacific Northwest is that it’s, simply put, awesome. The weather is a perfect 75 degrees, no humidity, and get this, no bugs! I am not exaggerating when I say that there are no bugs in the Pacific Northwest. Okay, okay, maybe just a few here and there. If the weather was like this year round ,well then we would be living in Berkeley (another one of my favorite places to live). One of the sucky things about living here is that our summer is so short and the rainy season is so very long. I’m not all exactly sure what we did this summer, but I do know that it was a busy one.
My parents left for VN at the end of August. That was a very emotional time for me because I wasn’t sure (still not sure) when I would see my parents again. Over the summer, both Miles and Lila went to summer school in which Miles hated every minute of it. Then in September, both kids started preschool (at the same preschool Miles went to last year) and Miles is loving every minute of it. Go figure! Now that the kids are in the same classroom, they decided that they wanted to share a room with each other. Hmm, not sure about the idea at first- Jason and I thought they would want to kill each other by the end of the night. Recently, I heard a conversation between Miles and Lila. ”Lila, are you happy?” Lila responded, “Yes, I’m happy.” Miles looked pleased, “That’s good, Lila.” With a tug and a pull and a few bolts later, Miles and Lila’s convertible cribs were placed on Craigslist and we were off to a furniture store to buy the kids their Toy Story/Princess bunk beds.
It’s the beginning of October now and we just adopted Ruby at the Oregon Humane Society. Going here this last week was a little bitter-sweet for me. About two years-ago, we dropped off all of Kona’s left-over dog food and flea treatment here. We figured, why keep these things around when another dog could use them, and, keeping all of her stuff was just a reminder of our sweet Kona. Optimistic and ready for a new pooch in our home, we found Ruby, a 9 month-old chocolate lab mix. She has been a wonderful addition to our home. Though, she, more like Jason and myself, are going to need a lot of obedience training!
