Caught this young groundhog shamelessly munching on our oregano yesterday. I’ve named him Nigel in honour of a friend’s cat. Wish the cat (who recently died :-( ) was in our garden yesterday. Nigel The Cat would surely have made short work of Nigel The “Eating Machine” Groundhog.

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Check out this little guy who was hanging out in our backyard with his siblings and mom yesterday, stuffing Saskatoon berries in his mouth as fast as he could.

After the photoshoot, Mama and cubs took off to find a quieter eating establishment:

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Enjoyed meeting Beth on the weekend; she’s a friend of Jeff’s gaming buddies whom everyone had met online but not yet in person.

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Wow. I’m impressed that artist Jorge Columbo had the patience to paint the image above on the iPhone; he used a $4.99 iPhone app called Brushes (which, of course, I was compelled to immediately buy).

But back to Evil Squirrels and gardening…

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Embracing the warmer weather, Jeff and I picked up a bunch of plants at a local nursery on the weekend. I tend to opt for plants I can eat while Jeff prefers nicer-looking plants that blend with the rest of the garden. My choices: sweet basil, Italian parsley, marjoram, German thyme, woolly thyme, red creeping thyme, peppermint, spearmint, sage, rosemary, stevia, two types of tomato plants, eggplant, red pepper, zucchini, cucumber and lavender. Ok, I can’t eat lavender, but I love the fragrance.

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I took the photo above when I was making a leek and walnut sauce for a chicken recipe from The Healthy Slow Cooker by Judith Finlayson.

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Check out the cake that my friend’s mom made for her birthday! The design is based partly on a Livejournal icon I made for Lissa ages ago:

I’m hugely tickled that something I drew got put on a cake. Lissa has the coolest mom.

If you tried to get into Blatherings earlier today and couldn’t, by the way, it’s because I stupidly let my Blatherings.com expire (!). Yes, I know. Everything should be back now, I think.

This anonymous (no return address or note) package came for me in the mail today. I haven’t yet worked up the nerve to actually try them. Heh.

So ‘fess up…who sent this package? I notice it came from the UK.