Glass Lizard

Stumbled across this interesting yard fauna today while chopping up palm trees -- a legless lizard. I was confused for a while when I thought it was a snake because it had two tails (not shown)... As a lizard, of course, it was regenerating damage that had almost, but not quite, amputated the tip of its tail.

My New Favorite Soup

Super V

The original, and enhanced by NDJ...

Sugar Dew

While we were at Sam's Club today on a critical Simulac run NDM pointed this baby out to me. I admit, I was pretty excited. Coke is much better made with cane sugar -- i.e. Mexican Coke -- so how could sugar Mountain Dew fail to be excellent?

Well. There is a way.

Compared to HFCS Dew, sugar Dew is a little flatter, a noticeable step down in sweetness, with a much more pronounced medicinal aftertaste.

It is hard to believe that the difference is solely due to the difference in sweetness between sucrose and HFCS's cocktail of fructose and glucose. Under the fuzzy lens of can ingredients labeling the products are otherwise identical. Yet, there it is.

V's Quilt

GCE's mother made this utterly fabulous quilt for V. It has intricate, hand-crafted zoo animals on the front and a frog pattern in honor of my mother on my the back. My cell phone snaps don't do it justice. Thanks so much!

Welcome Home V

We brought V home early this afternoon. She was a champ and decided to sleep peacefully the whole way home despite being overdue for both feeding and changing. Dog introductions went fine; Líle was a little intimidated at first bust warmed up quickly. V even grabbed her a little.

Family Resemblance?

Can you tell we're related?

Happy Birthday to V!

This afternoon, after what must be the shortest and most anti-climactic labor ever -- I swear, it was TV birth short -- we welcomed VRM into the world. Mother and baby are both doing fine.

V was of course immediately transferred into a frog blanket.