Compost salad, annoying backdrop

Isn't that gorgeous!? It was darn good. Unfortunately, our battery backup went haywire nearly an hour ago, and the  water-torture-like staccato of Bee-Bee-Beep is killing me. I just thought I had a migraine prior to this; now I'm darn sure. Oliver is yelling about being ready to play even though he's been in his crib just 5 minutes. I think my hopes of newspaper reading were for naught. We had a fantastic morning together, but I've no more energy for pretending that the 5 toy logs he has (from a log carrier) are actually a school in which I need to sit and learn. T minus 63 minutes until the babysitter arrives...