In recent news, Ford came out with a car that parallel parks itself.

Equally impressive as far as I'm concerned, yesterday i taught the wiener dog to play fetch by himself. He now drops the ball off the warf, then swims out to rescue it. Sweet!

Last night a bird tried perching on my head. It didn't work, but it was quite exciting.

Even more exciting, today me and my lovely friends pretty much tied the knot on a large, colonial house within which we will live and in which many tea parties will be held.

Icing on the cake: Nanny thinks that Uncle Tom would just love to "do me up" a bear skin rug to lay in front of one of our many fireplaces. Darcy: flashbacks from Women In Love. Sweet!

summering

i been picking berries, been swimming in a rainstorm trying to learn by sight all the birds that i see. i been to the cottage, played some badminton, and to local vineyards for some pretty great wine. drove to uncle tom's cabin- for real- and swinging on a treeswing on a cliff looking over the rocky shore and a silent atlantic ocean where there wasn't another person in sight. collected so many beautiful rocks that day, stretched my cardigan sweater trying to carry them all home. ate lobster for the first time, baby stepped in with a very unlobster-looking sandwich, and a second, oh god, one beautiful evening as the sun set over the lake, i cut, ripped open, and chewed on him while all the while he stared at me through cooked eyes, and though i washed my hands of the whole thing, i just couldn't seem to get the smell from my fingers. i anticipate that this process will not be repeated for quite some time, not until i forget how bad. isn't that always the way? bought an ice cream maker and served my first batch, old fashioned vanilla, for dessert tonight. a unanimous success. played "chuck it" with the dog, some badminton with mom, and made my dad a chocolate birthday cake to serve for dinner tomorrow night. the whole family will be home. i bought some oil paints, and i'm really trying to make myself. but, even though i've been living this leisure life, and the air is so fresh and the world so silent at the cottage, i just can't seem to sleep that much at nights, so full of thoughts and ideas i am, that i've been trying to exercise more in hopes of using my body just to tire my full head out. went for a walk around shubie park with mom today and we met a nature man. next thing i know, i have a chipmunk eating in my hand, and mom has a chickadee. i exclaimed to nature man, "you are just like cindarella!" and he said, "no, you're just like cindarella!" i think we were both right.