Friar Chuck!!! Adorable, but unfortunately he has been eating most of Mom’s garden over the last few days. Any advice on how to get rid of woodchucks would be appreciated; we’ve already spread pepper around. Plus, we have a pellet gun and a pellet pistol at the ready. Plus, rodent eradicating gas bomb things, PLUS Ben and his slingshot. Mom was talking to someone today whose friend caught them in HavaHart traps and then shot them.

Interesting shot of Ben and I on a hammock, pointing in a strange, semideranged manner.

And the recital photos I promised on Wednesday:

This is me doing my solo piece, Adagio from Handel’s Fourth Violin Sonata. I hit the fourth note wrong, but other than that it was pretty good.

The BACH DOUBLE!!!! Which was relatively mistake-free! We stayed together during the entire thing, which was practically a first. I had one major rhythm mistake but that was it. So happy to be done with that!

Hopefully, some type of contest thing coming tomorrow. Or this weekend at least. Or, possibly next month, unless I get my butt in gear.