garden gnome niece

I love this pic of my sweet niece wearing some of her very own coucou salut garb. She's the cutest little garden gnome I ever did see.

hot.

It's hot. Disgustingly hot. 45 degrees and living inside of a dog's mouth hot.

Cooking actual meals is a bad idea these days, so we've been eating a lot of sandwiches, salads and snacks.

Back when it was in the mere upper 20's and 30's, J cooked up some delicious eats, including our first ever shrimp boil! We had to make our own version of Old Bay Seasoning, but it turned out fantastic, and is the perfect thing to eat outside on a warm summer's night.

I'm planning to escape to the comfort of a movie theater tonight, possibly to watch this or this. I suspect that means that popcorn will be on the menu for tonight.

How are you beating the heat?

home and back

We've returned from a week at home with our favourite people, where it was all hanging out barefoot in the sunshine, playing with cute kids and dogs, going for runs along the river, and taking long prairie drives.

It was so great to catch up with the nieces and nephew (the nephew is super active, and a hard one to photograph!), who are all so amazing. I didn't grow up around any kids, so I'm learning a lot from them - mainly that I kind of wish I was two again.

It's back to work for me again tomorrow, and I have a few months of hard work ahead of me - more on that later. Why do vacations always seem to take forever to arrive, and then go by in the blink of an eye?

I hope everyone is having an amazing summer so far!