into june

june always solidifies summer for me. the weather's been perfect here, like 70s and chilly at night, and while I still haven't been to the beach (working days is sort of the worst), I'm getting into summer mode. working on some projects I don't think I'll end up sharing (namely this pizza) but it's good. most of what summer is for me is just time, letting things happen and calming down about it. or trying to.

matt is in europe for a couple weeks, this lunch was courtesy my mom's being bored with food and us shouting pizza when she asked for meal ideas. we all got to make our own :)

(mine: pepperoni, green peppers, and onions)

Catie looking outside

(Matt's had pepperoni, onion, green pepper, mushrooms, and tomatoes. He also says the secret is putting a little cheddar cheese on top, but I don't know why)

My mom was very excited to have Memorial Day off so we made cupcakes and decorated them with sprinkles. Hi Nora, too, and shout-out to the vertical sprinkling skills.

Indiana has a lot of orchards; June is prime time for picking strawberries and raspberries and chart terries (cool, brane) and so my mom wanted to get some to eat. We spent a few hours picking things, although Dominic mostly just threw them as pictured and I mostly thought about how cool it is to just eat things right from the plant. I don't particularly like raspberries but I found them totally delicious.

strawberry babies

(dominic took this) (maybe I will convince him art matters yet)

raspberries are seriously cool to pick, they are like little hives around the center that comes off; I never thought about it before but it's so clever. way to go, nateur

dummy

:)

Gus found a baby deer that got hit by a car so he rescued it. After struggling to catch it (only one leg is broken), he brought it over to see what the heck he should do with it and so we looked at it and fed it some milk and then he took it to the vet the next day. They are setting its leg and hopefully it will be okay. He named it Buck.

I didn't even know I got sunburned picking berries but then I took a shower and it sort of hurt so what do you know? Also baby freckles.