Today my mom and brothers and I went blueberry picking at a local farm (part of why i love living in south jersey - there's so many family-run farms and they all grow super good produce!!) We managed to get a big flat pack of blueberries plus two quart containers. I've been given the responsibility of searching for recipes to make with everything we picked 0-0 the only thing that came to mind immediately was blueberry ice cream (we had made it years ago after picking blueberries!) but theyre delicious on their own too.

art fight has started too! I have a few ideas this year and I also prepared ahead of time by making a trello board with all the characters I wanted to attack this year. I did it to avoid the usual crashing and site lag that art fight experiences the first few days but surprisingly I didn't notice that this year?? good for them.

I have also decided to take it upon myself to clean up the area behind our shed where we have our pets' graves. For the longest time it was overgrown and covered in sticks and leaves (sorry, kitties...) but given the fact that we were out there recently... I thought it was time to actually make it look nice, for Chip and for Calvin and Hobbes. I went out and bought a few solar garden lights to put down to light up the area a bit, but the problem with that is that its pretty shady and I don't know how much they'll actually charge back there. (╥‸╥) They've been out for a few days and I havent checked on them since (i'm actually going to go out after i finish writing this) so I could be worried about nothing but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was also looking at maybe getting a nice little bench to put back there or maybe some paver stones? I'm still brainstorming atm but i think it could look nice. We have a bunch of spare lumber from our old swingset/jungle gym (custom built by my awesome dad) that i was thinking of using to make a sort of "frame" or fencing to sort of line the area, if that makes any sense.

This is something i'm actually pretty excited to do, so I'll definitely update with some pictures when that project is completed!