Ribby tank

Knuck in progress

Family dog

Miles doing his teacher's pet impersonation at dog school last week

The OC

After a weekend in Long Beach, I'm spending the rest of the week in Orange County. They're going through their idea of a heat wave here, but I really cannot figure out what these southern Californians are talking about.

What I'm...

Reading: I recently finished Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. It's a really good slow bittersweet sort of book. Her last novel, Housekeeping, was on NYT's list of top 25 books of the last 25 years. Then I read The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Now I'm onto Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by one of Margot's favorite writers. Also, I am working my way through Ivor Horton's Beginning Java. So far, I have made an applet and added apples and oranges, but I'm sure that in 1000 pages, I'll be able to do all sorts of fancy things.

Watching: Some evil person keeps not returning the 2nd disc of Season 1 of Arrested Development to VisArt. In the meantime, we have been entertaining ourselves with Sarah Silverman's Jesus is Magic and World Cup and Tour and even a little Wimbledon. (If there's one phrase that people always use to describe me, it's "sports fan".) And we went to see Prairie Home Companion.

Knitting: I'm nearly done (for the last week) with my ribbed tank top. I'll post pictures soon.

Locopup

We took Miles to Locopops and he had his first pupsicle- frozen beef broth on a rawhide stick! He liked it best when we held onto the stick for him. A lady in the parking lot told us that she wants to be reincarnated as our dog.

Meanwhile, David, Melissa, and I sampled some more standard fare, including Mojito, Pomegranite, and Pistachio.