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Garden fluff and one very chill squirrel.

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My new garden bed is starting to fill in…

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But I wish the woodchucks hadn’t eaten all my mid summer blooms. So much for strategically timed planting.

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The geraniums are doing well.

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I was a bit late getting these in due to my mystery illness, but they’re flourishing now.

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Our Japanese Spirea surprised me this year by branching off in white on the right side.

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It’s always been solid pink…

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But not anymore.

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Close up of its fuzzy blooms.

The bees love it.

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And yes, that’s one entirely too chill red squirrel.

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There’s a new toy at Casa River.

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My husband went to Lowe’s for some weed wacker string the other day.

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So of course he came home with a new $800 battery operated lawn mower.

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Oh, it’s fancy.

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Multi speed self propelled motor, dual blades, telescopic adjustable handle…

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So fancy it took him 15 minutes to figure out how to start it.

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There’s so much extra tech… it came with three instruction manuals.

And neon green mulching blades.

And a detachable cell phone carrier.

It even has a cup holder.

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I told him it looked like a Tesla.

He was not amused.

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There was a learning curve and it took him a little while to get used to it. But then he was off and running…

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To he honest, I don’t think he loves it as much as he thought he would.

Not that he’d ever admit it.

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And no, He doesn’t push mow our whole back lawn. Just around the house, garden beds, barn and tighter spaces.

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Mind blown, I admit it.

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Remember when I posted this the other day?

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When I said it was crazy to see circles in this collection of what is clearly blocks?

Well, thanks to two blog friends..

I saw them.

I didn’t at first, even after one friend said to look in between the rectangles.

Nope. Didn’t see them.

Then another friend emailed me this color enhanced version.

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Yup.

Clearly a circle.

So I went back numerous times and focused on the space in between two rectangles and I stared.

Then I squinted…

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And bam!

There really are circles. Call it an optical illusion or my brain playing tricks, because as soon as I stopped squinting they disappeared.

But I saw them.

And after a few more tries, I saw them without squinting.

Try it…

And Mark, I expect you to be honest.

Watermelon really is delightful.

🍉🍉🍉

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This is not good.

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As you know, we have always had a resident red squirrel menace.

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I’m sure this isn’t the original terror from years ago, but one of her numerous demon offspring.

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She teases the cat, poops on the patio furniture…

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Shreds the deck posts, excavates passages through the woodshed walls, chews holes in the man cave/Barn Mahal, burrows into the house eaves and builds nests everywhere to continue her accursed family.

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I know this because…

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We’re knee deep in the destructive little bastards right now.

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Not good!

Not good at all….

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Maps, glorious maps.

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Let’s explore…

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I’m surprised Maine is on the higher side of this. Must be the northern half…

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That’s beyond disturbing.

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This is even more so.

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People do love to live near the water.

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I’m surprised more states in my area aren’t green. New Englanders are traditionally frugal.

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I blame Maine’s rate on the lobster. Who wants to eat it without a pound of melted butter…

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News you can’t use.

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I’m hoping to run out of these. But it won’t be today…

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I’ve heard of wardrobe malfunctions… but dental is a new one.

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No thank you. At this stage in my reading glasses for everything life … I need bigger, not smaller.

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I call foul on this one.

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Yes, because everyone goes to McDonald’s for the oatmeal.

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Water.

Come on!

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I know I’m not visiting Florida anytime soon.

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No, they haven’t fixed the issues that cause it. They’re just switching to black… which, when you think about it, is more death like.

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Evolving into… what?

*gulp*

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Is this the blue/gold dress all over again?

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Take a look at this image and tell me if you see rectangles or circles.

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Like that extremely annoying blue or gold dress, I can’t understand how anyone could possibly see circles here, but apparently they do.

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This explanation seems bizarre to me.

I don’t live near teepees, but I can still distinguish one from an igloo.

The human brain is a strange piece of work.

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