Future Plumber?

Mom and dad arrived last night. Now hopefully I can get some of the home-improvement projects done that I have been saving to keep dad busy. Mom... well, her job is to clean the poop off of a pile of wool freshly shaven from a sheep.

In other news, Tomoe, who was vehemently against me buying a MacBook (and anything Mac in general), just got a MacBook of her own to replace her piece-of-crap dell. the only reason was that I told her she can run Windows on it, but it is higher quality hardware. She would be perfect in a commercial for mac, with all her "wow, this is great!" and facial expressions as she tried it out.

The rice is not growing as fast as we hoped, but neither are the weeds, so I guess we can be thankful for that. While the neighbors have 20-25 stalks on their bunch, we have about 15. There is still time though, so please keep your fingers crossed for our rice.

Finally, believing that it is never to early to start practicing good dental hygiene, we are teaching Mona to brush her teeth. As you can see, the whole concept is still a bit confusing for her.