Marshmallows, Love in the Afternoon and Carpenter Ants

1. Sharing a lunch of fresh spinach salads dressed with grapeseed oil and red wine vinegar with my daughter, while under the trumpet vine covered arbor, beside a shameless middle-of-the -afternoon-in-June wood fire. Then, toasting marshmallows for dessert and chasing them with a strong cup of afternoon coffee.

2. Watching two male robins on our roof shingles, fighting for the affection of a singular female, strutting their stuff as she plays hard to get.

3. Spending my first entire day outside since the surgery. Chasing the bad bad carpenter ants with a Weber Power Stripper while stripping the paint off an old register cover from our 100 year old home.