I started cleaning out my garage yesterday, and we’ve got ’em. Dangit. I’m so grossed out. It’s our first time, in nearly 14 years of marriage that we’ve had a problem with rats. Hopefully, this will get us bulldozing the blackberries out of our backyard sooner. Most of our property is covered with them (being blackberries, hopefully not rats), and they go right up to the garage. Dangit, dangit, dangit.

I’ll leave you with a pretty picture.

I was taking a late afternoon shower on Saturday, and looked up and saw this loveliness. This is what I had hoped to see when showering in my bathroom. The truth is that the glass usually fogs over with steam and I can’t see anything. Plus, the sky doesn’t always look that blue, even when it’s blue. But I looked up and it was gorgeous as the sun was streaming in and the maple tree was rustling.

So I turned off the water and shouted to Olivia to bring me the camera.

She was very confused.