Everett has been weeding and mulching his strawberry patch, and I, after moving more perennials from here to *Golden Grain Farm, have come home to get out of the sun. I left him there to spend an hour with his computer, and met up with this bird as I went out the driveway.

I am a bad girl. I admit it. Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys is overdue at the library and I don't care. I'd rather pay the fine than return it before I'm finished reading. I hope my librarian won't lose sleep. She might.

*Dad, according to the Wadena history book it was naturalist and writer Thornton W. Burgess who originally owned the property, gave it the name, and used it as a summer home. Although there is lots of information about him on the internet, as he was well known in the early 1900s for his children's bedtime stories, the museum and society dedicated to him has no record of him spending any time in Saskatchewan.