Yesterday Demon Kitty came over to visit us. I’d been out watering the yard and I left the screen door open.
When I came back inside, DK was basking in the sunlight cleaning himself.
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The mystery plant bloomed, I think everyone was right, it does look like a lilly of sorts.
A few months back some small green shoots poked above the ground. I hadn’t planted anything in the corner where they were occurring, but I welcome most low maintenance plants that show up on their own.
I have no idea what this plant is, there is a smaller one next to it (lower right corner). Does any one have any idea what it might be?
When I first brought the transplanted blackberries home they looked pretty awful and Gavin fervently hoped they would die. They sat by the back fence, looking increasingly pitiful and dead.
When they reached an awful low - crispy, brown shriveled leaves - with clearly no chance of survival, I moved them off to the side - out of sight out of mind, and let them sit on their own in the corner. Imagine my surprise when I noticed little green leaves making a comeback.
I carefully trimmed away the dead leaves to allow the little recovering plant some space to grow. They’re not thriving, but they are looking lusher and greener than they have in weeks.
The blackberries are making a comeback, but they’re going to stay in their pots until we eventually live somewhere where I can have wine barrel full of blackberries (or a corner of the yard I want to let get over taken).
We’ve got a new sofa, well, not exactly new, but new to us. It folds out into a double sofa bed, and is quite cushy. We’re debating slip-covering it, it is a bit beige-on-beige-on-beige.
The pansies died, but that’s OK, they were supposed to die after a few months, so I decided to replace them with some “drought resistant” plants that I bought on a whim on a trip to Target.
I also bought a new basil, because my old basil died, it wasn’t supposed to do that, but it happens sometimes. Then I repotted some of my other herbs into a larger pot, and put the rosemary in the ground (it was getting slightly root bound).
I really hope nothing dies in the next few months. The hydrangea is looking better now that it has the umbrella over it, but the leaves that stick out from under it get crispy.
We have a new back fence, Gavin insists it is redwood, I think red is being generous, the fence is bright a bright pink-salmon color.
It makes quite a stark contrast with the deck and the fences dividing up the individual backyards. Gavin insists it will fade with time, until then, we’ve got a pink fence.
We’re in the process of getting a new back fence. “We” in this case includes the entire set of town homes where we’re renting.
Last week we got a phone call from the fencing company. They were calling to tell us to keep pets and children indoors; we don’t have either so it wasn’t an issue, but I did roll the jasmine away from the fence, and I pulled the hammock in closer to the flower bed.
Right now we don’t have a back fence. It’s sort of weird, I’m glad we have plantation shutters or else our living room would feel sort of like a fish bowl.
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Dull Daily Event: Breakfast
Task: Eating bowl of Frosted Flakes
I decided to compare my Adventure Spoon with my Favorite Four Duckies Spoon. The Adventure Spoon really couldn’t compete, it was bulky, unwieldy, and had a funky plastic taste that detracted from the Frosted Flakes. In contrast, the Four Duckies Spoon is light, has no odd flavor, and works quite well for it’s intended purpose.
When breakfast was over, the Four Duckies Spoon and cereal bowl easily slid into the dishwasher, while the Adventure Spoon had to be hand washed.
The Adventure Spoon did not enhance breakfast in anyway. If anything, breakfast was made tedious. The little red light was annoying to use, and really rather pointless for eating cereal.
A week or two ago Frosted Flakes were on sale at Safeway, so I picked up a box or two and unknowingly became the owner of an Indiana Jones Adventure Spoon - the red one with the spider on it. A quick googling showed that I was not the only one to have such an amazing item, there are already YouTube clips, discussion groups and blog posts about it. They are also being touted as a “collector’s item” and being sold on EBay.
In addition to teaming with Kellog/Keebler, the new Indiana Jones movie has also teamed up with Dr. Pepper, Blockbuster, XBox, and Burger King.
I remain unimpressed, seriously, what am I going to do with a plastic spoon that lights up, or, worse yet, an Adventure Spoon.
If I was going to design an Adventure Spoon it would be more like a Swiss Army knife than a pillar of cheap plastic. It would be more spork like, and any light it gave off would be adequate to find my way around in the dark (not give off an annoying red glow).
To see what was so exciting about my Adventure Spoon I decided to carry it around and see if it made my life any more Adventurous. I picked Thursday (my day off) as my Adventure Day.
My Thursday was slated to be no more thrilling than any other day off. I’d get up, shower, tell Gavin to have a good day as he drove off to work, have breakfast, watch Matlock, do some menu planning/grocery list writing, some yard work, some puttering about the house, at some point I’d eat lunch, probably talk to Comrade Squishy, surf the internet, debate doing some laundry (probably not until Friday), and eventually get started on dinner (swedish meatballs and oven-baked latkes with apple and lingonberry sauce).
I planned to test the spoon for usability, easiness to clean, durability, general usefulness, and the Adventure Factor which would include how much more Exciting my day would be because the Adventure Spoon was in my life.
Would the Adventure Spoon enhance my day, from breakfast through dinner? I was determined to find out.
