Raccoon DooDoo

I picked 4 more strawberries off the 10 plants I bought for $20 - total strawberries are 24 which means each strawberry only costs 83 cents.  Soon I will be at break even level!  And the rat/mouse has left them alone since I scattered bay leaf around them.  The raccoon has been back - this time eating our neighbors cherries as I found a "deposit" in my yard full of cherry pits.  I bet the little bugger had a belly ache.  Now I not only have to pick up Buddy doodoo but I have to pick up Mr Raccoon doodoo too!

Hubby is back from his business trip and there will be no more travelling until September.  I took him down to the marina so we could see if the seals were still there as have family coming in next week and we want to show them the seals.  Sure enough, they were lazing in the sun on the booms.  This is not a great picture but the best I could do with my phone as we were a fair distance away.

A boat was leaving harbour and they were talking about the large jellyfish just below them - another not great picture but this jelly fish was 2 feet wide, not the usual small ones we see.  It was yellow - I believe it is called a Lion's mane jellyfish.  

I made a small find this week - a keeper.  This is a small metal tile with glass melted on the front of it with cork backing.  The glass bits at the bottom are Venetian beads therefore this little tile came from Italy - I knew the second I spotted it.  I paid a whopping $3 for it.

 My friend's chickens in the last post are laying up a storm so I was able to buy a dozen eggs off her.  So pretty and freshly laid.  The going rate here is $5 unless you buy at the farmers market where they have to pay rent and insurance and they sell theirs for $8 a dozen.  I can get a dozen eggs on sale at the grocery store for as low as $2.50 but they will never compare to these, with the price difference being worth it in my opinion (I refuse to pay $8 though, a zebra cannot change it's stripes).

 She was pretty certain the largest egg(bottom right) was a double yoker and she was right!  We ate it for breakfast on Sunday.

We are looking forward to a long weekend without work in it.  The weather is supposed to be kind of rainy/crappy so we will just take it easy and do some things around the house.  We have American cousins flying in on Tuesday night so are taking 3 days off next week to show them around.  I hope the weather clears up for their visit but either way we shall have fun!