and the count-down begins!

One more month and I'm done. 11 or 12 more market days. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can....

I may or may not see Dee in two weeks as well. Here's to that!

But on the down side, my little bro leaves in a week and a half. I'll miss him. He was my buddy when we were youngsters and I've been spoiled having my buddy here all summer. But alas, all good things must come to an end, or so someone said.

A few weeks ago I was watering plants at my boss's (boss'?) house when I saw a fly on the wall of the house. Right behind it was a little jumping spider, smaller than the fly. The spider slowly walked up behind the fly and I expected the fly to fly away. But it didn't. And a moment later the spider pounced on it and would it up! It was amazing!!!

One month to go.

I don`t know how I`m even still functioning right now after getting up at 3am for two days in a row, working hard all day in the hot humid air, swimming for half an hour, getting no nap, and then working outside with Uncle Oho when I got home! Now it is after 10pm and I still haven`t showered! Yikes! At least I get to `sleep in`tomorrow.
I went for a bike ride today too. To the LCBO. Liquor store. :) I introduced Aunt Anna Marie to the world of Gallo.

Uncle Oho then introduced me to the world of big table saws which I used to cut up the leftover wood he had from a bed he just made to use for firewood in the winter. Neato! I love using that thing, it's impressive. :)

I shaved off a good corner of my pointer fingernail while peeling potatoes for my boss. It didn`t hurt, but the looks of it creep me out. Things with fingernails are always creepy, like chalkboards and nails, or hang nails, or cutting them too short... But now a whole corner is missing. Where there is supposed to be nail there is now only flesh! yugh!

Anyway, I have to shower and get this woody dust and stain off me! Then hopefully I can sleep without getting woke up again by people walking around upstairs.

You know, summer`s been great, but I`m pretty ready to be back at Dordt now so I can hang out with everyone again.

happy canada day-after

The market today was uneventful. We sold some things, packed up, and left. I rode bitch in the beastie van between two other girls from the market, a community bag of cherries in my lap and windows rolled down so we could spit out our pits. At a red light we were all laughing hysterically at our driver's failed attempts to spit her cherry pits out the window and then we noticed a lady in an SUV to our left with her windows down. We offered her some cherries, but she was eating crackers and politely declined. So we drove on and continued to eat our cherries and laugh at Justina who also continued to spit out more cherry juice than pits... Then the nice lady from the SUV pulled up beside us and started saying something to us. Maybe she wanted some cherries afterall? Or maybe our hazards were on again?
"What?" we yelled.
"I said, if you get any cherry pits in my car I'ma kill you. All three of you!"
"Oh, ok" said our driver who didn't hear what she said.
The other two of us were just trying to contain our laughter! WTF? Some people are just funny.
But that's one more thing I can scratch off my bucket list. I've now officially been threatened by someone being serious. :)