The Garden Club celebrates its first tomato. (That’s Kathy, Anne, & me.) Anne is holding a basil leaf from the garden. We had champagne, the tomato with salt & papper, crackers, mozzarella, avocado, and basil.
Weird Pumas
$11 at Ross Dress For Less. In case you don’t have your calculator handy, that’s $5.50 per shoe.
Climbing the Wall
There is a girl in our compound named Kathy who is a bad influence on me. So I asked her if she wanted to use Tom’s ticket to Chatter ABQ this morning, since Tom was going to take his sister and bro up the tram. The program was wonderful. (A solo cellist named Joseph Johnson and a poet named Donald Levering.)
Then Kathy and I hit the farmers market at the rail yards, where they had this rock climbing wall. She made me try it. You know how it is - peer pressure, trying to impress a new friend. That’s her below, in her dress and heels, nonchalantly climbing up the wall. But I made it a little higher than she did, as you can see.
p.s. I’m really good at Photoshop as well as rock climbing.
Lots of Laughs
Tom’s bro Bill, his sister Diane, and the man himself
Mimi's Treasure Trouble
The second MIMI book––Mimi’s Treasure Trouble–– went to press today.
Out My Back Door
Christmas in July
Aggles and I read the Moomin books together when we met in Chattanooga a few Christmas’s ago. Look what I got in the mail from her today. The complete comic strip! Have you ever seen such a wonderfully weird book?
Dream Come True
4th of July Sock Shopping
Cloud Burst
8:31 p.m. Made it home on my bike just before the downpour.
A Book I Loved
From the book Astrid the Unstoppable:
(Astrid is on the phone with her friend Ola.)
“Ola, is that you?” Astrid was whispering. It was best to keep her dad out of it so he wouldn’t have to share any of the guilt.
“Of course it’s me. Why are you whispering?” Ola asked.
Astrid curled herself up even tighter behind the washing machine. “Can you skip school tomorrow and take the boat here?” she asked him quickly.
“Yup,” said Ola.
It certainly was wonderful to have people like Ola, who never think before they do something wrong.
Warning
This is what happens to a champagne stopper after it is dropped into the garbage disposal.
Walking along the ditch / 7:39 pm
In the Mail Today
So satisfying to hold this fat little treasure in my hands. It’s an ARC (advanced reviewer copy). Neither the illustrations nor the words are “perfect” – but close enough!
Coming June 22
Canyon Road
Santa Fe for a day
Three Weeks Went By
Two birthdays
Cards (Larry made this card!)
Presents
Dinner at Los Poblanos
Down on the lavender farm
Candy!
Friends (Eric and Deb)
Deb, Tom, Eric on the tram
The REAL BOOK! Allyn, my publisher, always wraps up the first book I see. All the ribbons make it even more exciting.
Kathy, my neighbor here at the compound, had an open studio last night.
I know you don't believe me
but it’s true! This is the trail that runs behind our house.
The Bouncy Castle
Final art for Mimi’s Treasure Trouble is coming slowly but surely.
patio furniture