chicken salad, a visitor, and a little earth muffin

I love it when it rains. Wait: I loved it when it rained and I had nothing better to do than to curl up with a good book and a cup of tea. Now that I have little ones who want to be outside, I like rain in smaller doses.

We are in the middle of another string of rainy days, and the temperature has dropped back down into the 40's. It's almost hard to remember that just a few days ago it was like this:

Liam and I spent some time digging up weeds in the garden and passing them along to the chickens. Liam made bucket after bucket of his special chicken salad, sometimes with a bit of worm thrown in for added protein.

We had a surprise visitor in our mulberry tree. Liam liked the possum a bit more than Dahlia, who saw it as her duty to bark him out of the tree. We all went inside to give the critter a chance to make his exit in peace, and he did.

And because the day was so warm and River's rash is still raw, some more naked time was just the thing.

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I saw my doctor this morning and came home with a prescription for a muscle relaxant and some pain medication. I also picked up a package of Tiger Balm adhesive pads. They are amazing and I feel a bit better already... It also helps that both boys are napping. May they sleep long and wake happy. Amen.