one week

i've been sick for about 2 weeks now...

the last week being the worst

& i absolutely forgot about my blog for the last week.

shame on me.

moving on...

look at my beautiful bijou...

she's really quite amazing.

she turns almost totally green on mossy & lichen covered bark

& then turns almost completely grey

(shy of a couple of green bits around her eyes)

when she's hanging out on the rocks by her little "pond"...

and she also changes between several shades of green and grey.

mother nature never ceases to amaze me.

i picked two more pumpkins this morning, 

which you can see in my instagram feed over there --->

(if you're reading this close to my posting date)

we've had 1/2 a dozen eggs a day for the last few days!

the chickens are awesome!

all of our felines are doing well...

the pugs are...well, the pugs...=]

(but doing well)

and little miss munkipants is awesome as ever.

though she's been quite a handful lately, to be honest.

4th graders are weird.

i love her to death...but she's been kinda wonky lately.

(i don't even want to discuss that further)

she'll be 10 in just over a week.

i don't even know how that happened.

remember this kid?

damn, where does the time go?

i think once you have a living milestone, 

you just view time differently.

yesterday, munki received a surprise in the mail...

and look at the joy it put on her face...

the gift was from bethany...a friend from maine.

(whom we love and adore immensely)

she wasn't even aware that munki's birthday was coming up...

which made this even more special to her.

the ring belonged to bethany and she had worn it since she was 15.

she wrote in the card that it just really didn't fit her right anymore

and she wanted munki to have it.

♥

bethany is awesome...

& munki adores her...she has since she was 3 years old.

so yay, bethany for making the munki's day!

 have a wonderful weekend, friends & family...

xox.