Weekly What-What?! Week of June 28th

June is already almost over -- here in WA, we've had nice weather only in small spurts, and mostly Monday through Friday, so most of our time spent out has been afternoons when I'm done with work.  I've considered taking some more time off of work, but the last time I did that, I just wound up bored and sad that there was no place to go, sigh.

We got a fire pit -- I don't seem to have any pictures of us using it, but here's one of the husband and Corey putting it together.

Playing frisbee with Oz

We've got the canopy set up in the backyard, so we've been having dinners out there and generally just hanging out.

Last week, we actually felt brave enough to go to our favorite pizza place -- we ate outside and had fun.

My clematis is blooming!  This one has five petals, but a few have six.

My violas are doing good too. :)

Oz has actually been a big help working outside gardening and cleaning up.  He's asked for his own machete for cutting blackberries back...

What-What?! Week of June 7th

Last week was my birthday!  I am so old now, it's terrible.

The weather was nice enough on my birthday that we actually set up the canopy and celebrated outside -- it rained both the day before and the day after.

This year, the husband bought me a princess cake, which has a base layer of sponge cake, pastry cream, a dome of whipped cream, covered in marzipan.  It was a deliciously indulgent cake, for sure.

Showing the layers

I got some presents :)

This is the point where I asked how many pictures were going to be taken of me, ha!

What am I saying in this picture??  The movies are the animes Roujin Z and Record of Lodoss War

This is a book about calculus

And it has stills from Shrek in it!  I don't know what's going on here, but I'm interested to read the book and find out xD

My Little Pony comic -- this particular one is actually really good

And this is a poster of an image put out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, from their "Visions of the Future" set.  The Grand Tour in this instance refers to the path that NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 probes took, passing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune -- and using each planet's gravitational pull to help slingshot themselves to the next destination.  The New Horizons probe also took this route, slingshotting itself all the way to Pluto.  Cool stuff.