Apparently my backyard is infested with bugs. Just now I saw a robin, a mockingbird, a starling, and multiple grackles all chowing down at the same time. More power to them, I say!

It's been an action-packed couple of days. Typically on my off Fridays I do my major grocery shopping, and once a month do my budget/pay bills. This weekend I've already had three additional events, so Friday and Saturday have looked like this ( Read more... )

Oops. I didn't mean for it to be so long before I posted again ( Read more... )

Totally random thing that just happened: The writing credit for the Dick Van Dyke show I was watching came on the screen.  Writer's name?  John Whedon.  Yes, grandfather of that other guy.  0.o ( Read more... )

Dad took Bro. No. 1 and me to a German/Swiss sandwich shop for lunch today. It was very good! Still haven't tried weinerschnitzel, but I got some strawberry/rhubarb strudel for tonight. :D ( Read more... )

I'm spending a nice evening at home. Sleet hissing down like mad outside, accumulating on the streets. Definitely not going in to work tomorrow! I've got a small fire burning, too, which is super cozy. I've been doing some simple trimming on my new English bonnet. It's not the trimming for the Vernet plate, but I want to wear it to the archery ( Read more... )

LOTS of them. Be warned.

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I stayed up late again last night, and slept late again as well. But I got up and mowed the lawn in the heat (90 degrees or so). Then I did more laundry, including washing some woolens; folded remaining laundry; put away the costume stuff; put away the rest of my new acquisitions (particularly hats); and put away/tidied most of the sewing stuff ( Read more... )

I stayed up too late last night "researching" a couple of costume things (yeah, via Pinterest), so I slept a little late this morning. But when I got up, I was productive. I put the things that have been soaking in oxi-clean in the wash, got groceries, went to the chiropractor, then had lunch and spent some good time with my parents.  Then I came ( Read more... )

Boo-Hiss: My peace lilies seem to have died for lack of water while I was gone ( Read more... )