Notes

To celebrate their 40th Anniversary, Library of America has reduced the prices for 40 of their boxed sets by 40% or more. I shouldn’t have, but I bought the complete novels by Kurt Vonnegut. Who doesn’t love Kurt Vonnegut?

My wallet, probably.

A Day in the Life. Donating blood at around 1pm in western Montana.

A beautiful morning.

My favorite little 3rd grader ran up to me after school and said, “Hi Mario.”

“Hey, how are you doing? How was your day?”

“Good.” She paused for a moment. “Is it okay if I call you Mario Man?”

“Mario Man?”

“Yeah.”

“Mario Man is AWESOME! Of course you can call me Mario Man.”

She smiled her big, toothy smile and said, “Okay!”

Kids these days.

Yesterday, I went on one last hike before the end of my summer.

Yesterday, I changed pipe for the first time, I drove an ATV for the first time, and I got to hang out with some cows for the first time. Now this definitely caps off my pretty good summer.

Found this bat hanging outside my window this morning at work.

He hung out there all day. I enjoyed checking in on him here and there throughout the day.

I love bats.

Finally, some good news: the Earth isn’t likely to get flung off into deep space for at least 100,000 years.

Phew.

My beautiful Saturday.

I had a lovely lunch with my friend today, and we had these amazing turtles for company the entire time. What a beautiful day.