ALL the pests!

So for a while this spring has been nice -- pest free, full of fruits and vegetables producing way sooner than they should.

Not any more.

Now the mosquitoes are out and the mice are in. And both insects and rodents are very bold.

Also, I think the cat is broken. She spends all her time in the backyard rolling around the catnip that has taken over the lawn and then stumbles around in a drunken haze before falling asleep in her favorite chir. Meanwhile, the mice are getting increasingly bolder, causing me (and I don't even mind mice) to shriek in a surprisingly girly fashion.

I'm really pretty embarrassed by that shriek.

Thankfully, I think we managed to catch the mouse (no help from Zen!) that was responsible for all of this stuff. And even then he was really feisty and almost jumped out of the net he'd ran into. He was like a real life Martin the Warrior.

Unfortunately, our house is not Redwall, so he was relocated to the southwest end of the schoolyard in hopes he could survive off of the scraps dropped by the kids there and stop trying to rid our house of the evil tyrant wildcat Drugaddictcatzenia and her easy-to-surprise human minions.

Out in the garden, the strawberries are REALLY starting to produce. It's awesome. Soon we'll be sitting upstairs round a card table watching TV on Netflix and processing strawberries to freeze. I can't wait! Of course, soon I'll be saying I can't wait for the strawberry harvest to be over, but whatever.

Not much more progress on the rabbit cages, it was rainy yesterday and there's a couple big problems that need to be fixed with the current WIP cage before it can be finished, but maybe tomorrow we'll be able to fix it up.

And art and writing... urgh. I really, really want to write but I have absolutely zero ideas for anything. And drawing, on the other hand, is frustrating as heck because I have no consistent style or good way of doing lineart but I really do have a lot of ideas that I'd like to see drawn and finished. Grahhhh.