Behind the cut are two photos of the latest unknown bug to be found in my garden. I’m going to post a question about them at AskMetafilter later, but maybe someone reading my blog knows what the hell they are.

I have spent hours and hours looking at photos of bugs and reading about bugs and typing every imaginable descriptor into Google and coming up with nothing. In fact, the only thing I got out of the whole process is that I itch all over from looking at and thinking about bugs too much!
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With snoopy cat, of course! Can’t have a photo without one!

I harvested some seed from the garden today. The first okra pod that formed on the strongest and best okra plant, as well as the first Kentucky Wonder bean off the best of those plants. Next year I’ll be planting these, in hopes of better results, and saving the first seed from them as well again.

In other garden news, the squash seeds I planted a few days ago came up … and were promptly chewed off by some critter. I don’t have anymore seed, so I guess that’s going to be it for the squash, unless there’s some seed worthy of being saved from the squash we will be eating this weekend.

Until the bread was done, I didn’t know what we’d be having for dinner tonight. Owing to the fact I finally made some hamburger-sized buns, we’ll be having homemade burgers and fries!

Otherwise, dinner would have been sandwiches and soup. Still good, but not like homemade burgers and fries.

Finally, the “I’m Home” dinner I was hungry for! Not plated especially beautifully. By the time it was all ready, I was so hungry, I just wanted it ON a plate, so we could start eating. Poorly plated or not, it was totally satisfying!

Look at that tomato! That was a damn good tomato. One of my own, of course.

Look … it’s a door … with a doorknob and locks … and it opens and closes and opens and closes. It even has a window through which I can peek at my garden or let some sunshine into the laundry room. There is finally something resembling a proper door on the back side of my house!

OK, so it isn’t trimmed out (yet) and doesn’t have weather stripping (yet) either, but it will keep outside things outside (possums and bugs) and inside things inside (cats and air conditioning).

Years ago had someone told me I would be this excited about having a door installed, I would have thought them insane. But yet … I am very, very, very excited about the door!

After reminding myself all week long I needed to get parchment paper for making pizza today, even bothering to write it down in several locations and leaving the empty box out where I had to interact with it several times a day, I still managed to go to the store and forget to buy parchment paper.

Well … it’s pizza anyway. It was just a damn bit more difficult to get it into and out of the oven, requiring two people and several kitchen tools.

I finally got a Bratz doll. It’s Yasmin, who I believe is described as a Jewish Latina. Mom saw her at her grocery store for $3 and remembered I had been wanting one forever, though she was afraid I might not like her, since it wasn’t the blond white one. Well, I didn’t want the blond white one. I wanted Yasmin! So, it all worked out perfectly.

From what I hear though, Bratz will likely be going away, since the company that makes them lost a huge lawsuit to Mattel (who will now own Bratz doll design). That means I better get her some more shoes (feet) while I still can. I especially want a pair of bare feet and maybe some flat sandals or tennis shoes … and maybe a pair of tall boots. Clothes I can (and will) make. Feet with attached shoes I can’t make, and if I don’t get a few more before they can’t be gotten, poor Yasmin will go through her entire life wearing the two pairs of purple spike heels she came with. We can’t have that!

I poked around at eBay a little, and tomorrow I have to run to the post office, which happens to be close to Target and Big Lots. I might as well look at both those places as well. I don’t want to spend a whole lot of money on it, but a few more pairs of “feet” for Yasmin would be nice.

If any of my online buddies have any Yasmin or Bratz-related things they would like to part with, speak to me! It doesn’t have to be in anything like mint, in-box condition either. I don’t collect toys. I play with them. What’s the point of being an adult and being able to get any toy you want and keeping it in the box forever? No fun in that!

Anyway, I’m giddy like a little girl about finally getting a Bratz doll. Silly, I know, but I can’t help myself. I love toys!

Maybe I will eventually get a Blythe doll too. Way more expensive than $3 though.