You know what's great way to fill doldrums? A baby! He's always smiling and happy when I get home from work and that's a wonderful (and time consuming) way to start every evening. Over the weekend he watched while Ryan and I worked on a mosaic glass backsplash at their place, then was a total trooper while we went raspberry picking up at -------- ----- --- (name redacted to keep crowds down). There weren't many berries due to our unfortunate Sunday-evening timing, but we dunked C's feet in the river and came home.

It rained today, ending a pretty bad dry spell, and we're thinking that a sunny day or two will bring a few dozen of our tomatoes into ripe slicing season. Then it'll be blt's and bruschetta 'til fall.