I always forget to take it easy when sandal season commences. It gets hot out and I forget to shave my legs so the only way to stay cool is to walk in my birks. This is the third year in a row my inattention has gotten me a lovely pair of blisters. Curses!
Surprise, surprise! I actually have been wearing my new shawl a bit. We had a few cool damp days and on the really hot days it can get chilly in the house before my hair dries. If I want it I have to fight Gwen for it. I think she’s in love! Jason tried to move her and she told him in no uncertain terms that it’s her shawl and she’s not getting off it.
Sometime last fall my car air conditioning stopped working. It being fall I didn’t really worry about it but the recent heat wave reminded me that it might really be nice to look into that. It was time for an oil change anyway so last week Jason dropped the car off and asked them to recharge the a/c for me. At first the mechanic thought I needed a new compressor but a little (okay a lot- as in much disassembling and reassembling of bits) of investigation turned up this chewed wire. He reckons a mouse got into my engine and chomped this little wire thus cutting the power to my a/c. We’ve been advised to put mothballs into bags and stash them a few places around the engine to prevent further such occurrences.
I recently took the plunge and ordered some MOO Notecards created from some of my photos off Flickr. I thought they might make nice gifts. I love that they are made to stand up and that you get a "contact print" card along with the set. My only grumble is that some of the photos appear to have a soft focus which is not the case with the original. I can’t figure out why some of them are like this and not others since they are all taken with the same camera etc. I have sent them a query and hopefully will learn something useful in the process.
Last night we picked up the rest of the new glasses so I’ve finally got my new sunglasses just in time for a trip to NYC tomorrow. Naturally it’s going to rain but I see lots of sun later in the week so I’ll get to test them out soon enough. I also pulled the Hourglass scarf off the blocking board and wove in the ends. It’s a lovely light scarf, perfect for summer.
Next up in our library pass extravaganza was the MFA yesterday morning. We printed off some kids activities and had a scavenger hunt of sorts. We searched for chocolate pots and dogs and later mummies. I quite enjoyed this portrait of the artists son which apparently employed a revolutionary technique whereby the child was portrayed as a child rather than a miniature adult. Afterwards we walked across the park to lunch at the Brown Sugar Cafe, a favorite of ours (though Emma was not terribly impressed). 
