Friday evening

[ksmith]

Raining. Gonna be a rainy, chilly weekend. Luckily, I have plenty of indoor stuff to do to stay busy. Yea.

After exposure to last weekend's 80F day and a few sunny stretches over the week, some seeds finally sprouted in the starter tray. I could have helped matters along if I had remembered to put the clear plastic lid atop the tray three weeks ago so it could do the miniature greenhouse thing, but I finally got my act together early last week and, well, germination commenced. I'm a few weeks late compared to last year, but I think I'll be OK as long as I have something to plant come Memorial Day.

I had been wanting a set of bookends for a while. Happened along a Levengers ad online, and decided to poke around. I like James Thurber and well, Levengers had a set of Thurber dog bookends on sale for about 2/3rds off. I snapped them up, and they arrived today. They're very nice, weighty with good detail. I think there's also a set of kitty bookends on sale for the feline aficionados out there.

Oh well, onward. The pups just came in from a quick potty break outside--Gaby is now lying nearby, and the area around my chair smells vaguely of wet dog. Hawks play later tonight. Not looking forward to it.

Comments

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Tell you what -- you send some rain down here, I'll send you some 80+ weather. We're dipping again tonight, but by Sunday night it will be a low of 69, and you know what that means for daytime. We're 17 degrees F above normal -- we have heat to burn. Literally.

[threeoutside.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the puppies are happy, that makes everything better, doesn't it?

Thank you for the Test: I've determined I MUST go on a total internet-purchase-free diet for the next few months, and there you go advertising those Thurber bookends that I've lusted after *forever* for 2/3 off! I even went over and looked at them (me? a masochist? Nahhhh.) and STILL managed to successfully resist the temptation.

After that hurdle, the rest of the day is a cakewalk! So thanks!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I think you need to persuade someone that you need an early birthday gift or Christmas gift or something. Not to rub salt, but they're really nice bookends.

And it gives me a chance to use my "halo" icon, which I don't often get to use.

It is now snowing, a wet, wind-blown mess that will soak a dog to the skin in five minutes flat. At least it isn't sticking. The pups were happy to go outside and bark. Now they're happy to be inside in the warm.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

It's snowing now. Want some of that?

I would like a Spring, Please? I have a feeling we're going to go from Too Cold To Plant Anything to Hot Enough To Kill Everything with nothing in between.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Actually, snow would be amusing and drop the temps a bit. Unfortunately, down here it would probably be hail.

I have a suspicion that Spring is still on Winter vacation and will get chewed out by Mother Nature, but too late for us this year. We're all headed straight to Summer. I never did see any Peppermint Peaches in bloom this year -- we did Spring in about a week, in February.

Which is wrong.