And the winners are...

THE HOYER-GREENLEE FAMILY

who turned in their Summer Homework first!

Yes, I know there was no deadline, but you get to be teacher's pets, Geoff, Sue, and Alex!

Everybody else, get cracking! (talking to myself here because mine is stalled in the journal stage.)

My vision is a book for Daddy's birthday.

Send in your poems NOW - operators are standing by - no waiting in line 7!

I need to go and massage the assignment for that guy in the other room,

and get to work myself...

love,

I got a kitten

His name is Jupiter and he's incredibly adorable. I got him from the shelter; he had a brother named Neptune, so I guess you can figure out what their inspiration was. In just a few days he's gone from hiding at every loud noise to fearlessly playing in the kitchen while I'm cooking dinner.

Anyway, since the internet clearly does not have enough pictures of cats yet, here's some pictures from right after we brought him home. I didn't have any cat toys then, so I gave him an extra ball of yarn. Now it's a horrible tangle, but it's the most fun of his toys because it has a long string so I can twitch it for him.

more St. Louis pics

How did Ruben get out of the picture? He is represented by the paintings....