Ummmm... ok

I opened my Outlook e-mail and found this beauty waiting for me.

From: dom alun [bokal@qwest.com]

Subject:"what a stupid face you have here hannah"

I guess I should say thanks Dom, whoever you are.

I WANT!

I want to make these tastey tastey things:

Rhubarb pie

Strawberry Rhubarb Empanadas

Glazed Orange Scones

It's summer and I've gotten over the baking craze I went through the last two weeks of spring quarter. Let's bake!

Night of the Lepus

"Picking up no strangers, Susan. I said that when we left Denver, and I'm sticking with it. Especially a man carrying a gun!"

- Man in car driving through town in Night of the Lepus.

As promised, I put that tremendously fantastic movie Night of the Lepus in my netflix queue and now I have it in my hot, sticky little hands. I thought it would be good because I mean come on, it's giant rabbits, giant rabbits eating people and more giant rabbits. But this is far better than anything I could ever have dreamed of. You can hear the bunnies coming because they have their own soundtrack: some sort of weird bubbling water sound, heavy breathing (like that creepy stalker you see in movies who calls and then sits on the line panting) and guinea pig sounds. It's amazing. Plus Janet Leigh ages a year a minute, by the end she looks like a skull with a barbie wig perched on her cranium. The rabbits live in an abandon goldmine, get blown up by dynamite, set on fire, live in a gas station, eat several families and single spinster-types, chase/kill horses, chase/kill cows, get taken out by the army when they are electrocuted on railway tracks. When a rabbit kills a person, it doesn't bother to leave any scratches... or really any wounds at all. Instead it covers it's victim in gallons of red paint and, as an afterthought tears a few holes in their pants and maybe removes a shoe. After the massacre of rabbits in the small town, I'm sure the price of fur coats plummeted.

An officer pulls into a drive-in movie theater, pulls out a megaphone and calls out: "Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!"

And, in a totally related side note this article came out a while ago, but this movie made think of it again: The offspring of the 12 giant rabbits were supposed to help to feed starving North Koreans, however, amid concerns that they have been eaten by the country’s leaders, Mr Szmolinsky will not be sending any more

Schedulation!

Monday:
10-12 (swim instructing, work)
6-7:30 (swim instructing, work)

Tuesday:
10-12 (swim instructing, work)
3-5:00, 5:30-7:30 (ASL, class)

Wednesday:
10-12 (swim instructing, work)
6-7:30 (swim instructing, work)

Thursday:
10-12 (swim instructing, work)
3-5:00, 5:30-7:30 (ASL, class)

The Summer

The birds are out, grass is growing and Katherine's hair has been limited in length.

First: The Tri-tail.
Next: Removal of the offending hair = infinitely attractive mullet.
Mmmm hair.
Shorter...
annnddd shorter. Plus, you know it's a great hair cut when hair winds up in Jessie's mouth
Ta-dah! Fini.

I pretended I was a fairy and tossed her hair all over the yard for the birdies.

It's been a good day.

The Vision

This is how mummy and dad want the new house to look like in the end. Mom wants me to post this so that people don't think they're crazy.

You don't think they're crazy.... right?

What Sound are YOU hearing?

Mummy found this whole chart of animal noises in different languages. You know, we say cows sound like

"Moo"

and in Urudu it's like

"Baeh"

close....

This is great... the french say that cat purring sounds like "Ronron". Wonderment. English is the only language that says deer make noise... and they sound like "Troat". Hah...

Peace, Thy Name is Monty

SPORE!

I know, you never thought it would happen. But it has. Spore has finally released a free demo of their creature creator. Enjoy!

Mt. Hood All Over the Place

Mom and Dad took my Grandparents and I to see the house they're signing the papers on tomorrow. It's kind of a crazy house, the previous owners took a perfectly nice house and tore out all the bedrooms and generally made a mess of things. They couldn't finish it so now it's an unfinished house with no legal bedrooms and therefore officially unsellable. There's been a bit of legal wrastling for a couple of weeks and now, in theory, they sign the papers tomorrow! Quite exciting.

Here's the wacky outside
and the wacky inside.

and the AWESOME view!
And this is the view of Mt. Hood from a lookout spot further up the road. The Sandy River is curving around at the bottom.

Whale-Bird-Goat Thing...

Saudis look at A Damascene goat, or Maaz Al Shami, named Qahr, which won the first prize for the "Most Beautiful Goat" title at the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh June 13, 2008.

Mr. Reggie

I found this little dude curled up in the cupholder of the new car when I started to transfer all of the odds and ends from the subaru to their new home. I felt terrible that he got locked in there at some point, but he is awfully cute and his untimely death gave me a chance to carry him around in my hand for a while.

Bzz bzzzzssssszzz

House Guests

Monty's could be considered one of the worst house guests. He eats tons of fruit, runs through the house, lounges on all the furniture, shreds the newspaper before you get to read it and then naps all day. However, he is the world's cutest rabbit, so all of that's ok.

Monty on the couch with a bit of newspaper left over from the morning's shredding party.

The Last of the Graduation

We celebrated father's day by going out to the View Point Inn for brunch/lunch/breakfast. The inn looks out over the Columbia River all the way down to the bridge by the airport. Very beautiful when the sun decides to peek out.

Happy Father's Day!

My Own Fabric? That's CRAZY talk

One of my favorite crafty blogs, Inside a Black Apple has just featured custom designed and ordered fabric. I'm all over it! She did it through a website called Spoonflower. They let you order it for fairly little,

Swatch (8" x 8") $5.00

Fat quarter (21" x 18") $11.00

1 yard (42" x 36") $18.00

2 yards (42" x 72") $36.00

3 yards (42" x 108") $54.00

4 yards (42" x 144") $72.00

5 yards (42" x 180") $90.00

and they'll print it on 44 inch wide Kona brand cotton fabric. Totally cool.

Jessie, and Others in Her Pictures

I didn't take too many pictures (or any at all) during the party, just when we were in the garden so I decided to borrow the pictures from Jessie's camera. This is a good selection of what I found this morning...

Jessie and Kyle

Poppi and Jessie
Jessie and Chris
Olivia, Jessie and Emma
Jessie and I
Jessie and Chris

More Grad Fun

Jessie's graduation party was at McMenamins Edgefield tonight. There was food GA-lore! And Edgefield has these pretty little fairy gardens that I used to wander around in when I was little and watched my cousins ramble around in tonight.

Olivia showing me her flower treasure. I think there's a tiny bit of mint in there too.
From inside of some sort of weeping tree.
And then some Monty snuggle time when we got home.

Bathing in Toxic Nasty

Discovering new ways we're killing ourself, one shower at a time. Not only is death a side effect of cleanliness, but there's also a negative impact on our reproductive systems. Death and no babies (or scary babies). I like those odds.

"The concentration of Total VOCs in the Wal-Mart tested shower curtain was so high that the analytical equipment was saturated and further testing had to be halted so that lab equipment would not be damaged."

"All five curtains tested in phase one contained phthalates DEHP and DINP, chemicals banned in children’s toys in California, Washington, and the European Union."

Too Cool for School

I found this table today online and I think I NEED to have a cardboard house. It just seems too perfect.

Cardboard cutting table

Cardboard Moose head

Cardboard Rhino head

Cardboard Deer head

Monty... The Lounge Version

Guess Who's a Graduatory Lady!

This one!

Ka-CHING! Jessie graduated today from Hockinson High School (and I think we'll all be happy to never have to set foot back in that building again).
Monty... pooped from an entirely stressful day of napping.
Jessie, Dad and Willow in a last minute attempt at photos before we had to hustle the hour commute back to the high school.
All we, standing in the drive.
Poppi, Mom, Nea Nea and Jessie.

Janet and Poppi
Nea Nea
Emma surprised that the five millionth time she asked when Jessie was going to get up was actually the right time.

Jessie, doing the walk.

Kyle, Jessie and Chris afterwards.
It was hot and sweaty crammed into that gym but nice outside. Yuck.
Dad, taking a picture of me taking a picture. But his version includes the sweet iPhone. This ridiculousness is only enhanced by the iPhone's myserious powers (the same powers that keep Evan alive and RULER OF THE UNIVERSE... and all things Mac-ish).

Poppi!
Mummy.
Jessie and Chris.

Awwww.....

Joyce and Dad. Nea Nea claims that Joyce, Dad and I all have the same nose but I guess we come by it honestly.
Jessie, leaving the Hockinson parkinglot for the last time. SWEET!

More to come tomorrow after the graduation paaarrrtay!