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Leif got into the prickly pears today. He fell asleep shortly afterwards, but wakes up every so often, crying and holding his hands out. Poor kid. His whole hand is covered in little hair-like thorns. koyote is trying to tweeze out the pricklies when he's asleep.

They installed a new speaker thing at the pedestrian crossing near us. when it's quiet at night, we can hear it babbling on in a robotized voice. I hope it's actually helpful for the people who need it.

I tend to feel inadequate when other moms talk about what they're baking/knitting/sewing currently. Today I reminded myself that I'm just as capable of doing these things (well, except knitting, which I've never really tried) - I just don't particularly enjoy doing them on more than an occasional basis. I made a pumpkin into puree, roasted the seeds, and baked bread. Yay.

I like to imagine that there's enough pumpkin for all three pumpkin projects I want to try, but I think it's actually the equivalent of about two cans, maybe a bit more.