today on things my boss says: "I don't want to pull over and pop a squat because i'm afraid a toad will suck on my ass cheek with its little mouth."
“It is the suburban ordinariness of all this that seems, for a moment, absolutely wonderful, a somewhat Jewish history with no martyrs, no sages, no philosophical torment, the grumpy Almighty not much in evidence; a place of happy banality; much stuck into property disputes, dressing up, weddings and festivals; tough army boys living next door to the even tougher goyishe boatmen of the rough waters; a place of unguents and alleys, throwing stones in the river and lingering under the palms; a time and a world altogether innocent of the romance of suffering. but, wouldn’t you know it, trouble came, all the same.”
-The Story of the Jews, by Simon Schama
last year one of our goats, Eddie, died. This year my mum and I dug up his skull for fun :^)
Got some nice river rocks, hope they don’t end up like the petrified wood (https://www.legendsofamerica.com/az-petrifiedcurse/)