Announcing A Splendid New Development In Bloglandia

So. You know my friend Liz Sparks whom I talk about all the time? 
Well guess what?
She has started a blog! 
She wants to keep a sort of journal/record of her travels and I am so thrilled. Her photos are going to be great, and her writing is superior. She has titled her blog whereintheworldisLiz2. 
You can find her first post, Migrating North, HERE, whereupon you will be enlightened on the topic of the woman who cooked for the Allman Brothers, that time Liz had a baby in the back seat of a '67 Plymouth Convertible in the parking lot of a birth center, and other interesting things. 
As Liz is the most Say Yes To Life person I know, she has had some pretty wild and amazing adventures. There is no doubt in my mind that her stories are going to be entertaining. Possibly enthralling! And frequently enlightening. The list of careers and paths of education she's had and followed is long and varied. And she always takes in what the people she knows and meets can teach her.
Liz is also one of the kindest, most empathetic people I know. There is nothing she won't do for a friend and very little she won't do for a stranger if the spirit moves her. She's done more for me than I can even begin to relate. 
She is just good.
I love her to pieces as you already know, and I am so excited for her to put down in words where her travels and life take her, to look at the photos she takes along the way, and the healings I know she's going to put upon us because she's good at that too. 
I am even more pleased and honored to spread the Gospel of Liz than I am to spread the gospel of the rattlesnake bean. And that's saying a lot. So go visit her if the spirit takes you, give her a little love, and let's watch as the world takes her in, embraces her, and falls in love. The more encouragement we give her, the more stories she's apt to tell and I want her to tell them all. 
You will not be sorry. 

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My new puzzle board was delivered first thing this morning and I am inordinately pleased with it. I even dreamed about it last night although in the dream it turned out to be made of shitty cardboard, like some sort of falling-apart box top. 

It is not. It seems like a very decent product and so far I don't have one complaint. 

I love the tilting feature and when it's flat, it can be turned 360 degrees with the lazy susan disc on the bottom, as I mentioned. It's got plenty of room, it's not too heavy to carry from one place to another, and well, I like it fine. 
The company that makes it is Playboda. I chose a plastic board because many of the wooden ones were made of pressboard and were probably heavier and less sturdy than the plastic ones. It was packaged extremely securely and was ready to use when it came out of the box. 
This sounds like a damn advertisement but since I'm not getting a cent for saying all of this, it's not. 
Sigh.
I haven't spent a whole lot of time playing with my puzzle today though. I knew I needed to pick green beans and I did. I probably have another three pounds of them. And I made Mr. Moon a Father's Day dessert. It's the same one I made for Jessie's birthday upon her request and it is decadent and delicious. 

That picture does it no justice and makes it look tacky rather than the divine wonder it truly is. I'm quite proud of myself because I made all four layers in short order and managed to chill the parts that needed chilling before the next layer was added. I should have used pecans as a topping instead of those chocolate chips but they are Ghirardelli chocolate chips so that's classy, right?

Here's a picture of a grasshopper which is a regular, normal grasshopper. With alien eyes.

Just thought I'd share that with you. I saw another Georgia Thumper on the vines again today but it didn't jump on me. 
So yeah, I did take its picture. 

These guys both horrify and fascinate me. 

And I must report that Maurice, who seems to have re-fallen in love with Mr. Moon, is spending a great deal of time on his lap when he's in his chair. She had not been doing this lately but somehow the man stole her heart again. And this morning, he found a complete and unmarred dead mouse in front of the door of the Glen Den and we know that absolutely means it was a gift for the Dad Human. 
Happy Father's Day! 
It sort of amazes me how this cat thinks and makes it so abundantly clear who she's gifting as her attentions shift from one of us to the other. Yeah, she's crazy. But she's also very interesting. There's a sort of intelligence there which is intriguing as hell. 

All right. Enough of this! Go read Liz's blog post! 

Love...Ms. Moon