i am not the mother of this squirrel

Sure, he's cute from a distance. But the problem is, he's imprinted on me. He thinks I'm his mommy. I open the kitchen curtain and-



He lunges toward the window to get closer.



I tap on the glass to scare him off-



And he pries his head through the hole in the screen-



No birdseed. No peanuts. Not a scrap of anything edible. Yet he won't stop following me around. I swear the kid is not my son.

the screaming mimi's are out

At this time of year we get a lot of thunder storms that look like this:



And when the sun comes out again the screaming mimi's (my nickname for the extremely orange lilies) look like this:



The louder the better: these colours make me unfathomably happy.



I bought just three of them a few years ago. The have been very happy to be fruitful and multiply. And KNOCK WOOD they are the only lilies I have that have not been taken over by red lily beetles. BUT PLEASE DON'T SAY THIS OUT LOUD OR I MAY BE JINXED. Or maybe they're there but they're blending in to the colour. lol.