Token Post

This little post is to just say that I have lots of pics and video of the Boo and news, BUT the bathroom is a wall-les whole right now and must be put back together again before anything else really happens. 2 weeks till School starts and the Boo's 1rst birthday...arg so much to do and so little time.

That Time of Hell Again

I loath July in Utah, August as well. These two months are the most evil of the year. The sun eviscerates you then leaves you in a mummy like state on the blacktop to shrivel into ash and MAYBE blow away. Don't count on it though, a breeze is hard to come by. It burns the clouds from the sky and sucks even the will to live from your soul. There is a reason no one wanted to live here before the Mormons arrived. Sun, salt, and sagebrush; where's the livability in that. Ya, there are worse places, but I'm not living there for a good reason. Utah is bad enough. Not even a spec of moisture. It's evil. I was out just a couple of days ago, a quick run to the grocers. By the time I was back my eyeballs had melted. Like that scene in Raiders of the Lost Arc*. I think I'll start answering the phone "Ninth circle of hell, head demon speaking".



*I would have put an image of this, but it's kind of gross and my Mom reads the bog.

Stoned Wallabies Make Crop Circles

Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said.



No officer I don't have anything in my pocket - Really. I know nothing about a poppy field. Please don't tarsier me.

Rick shared this story with me. A lot of the comments were ROFL funny too. Enjoy

THIS TAKES YOU TO THE ARTICLE

Forthcoming Joy In This Economy

As this economy slinks ever more hell-ward I have been spring cleaning both my house and my habits. As a single income family that hopes to one day become rich off darling husband's teaching job we have batten-downed the financial hatches. In reality this means that I have to be picky with my purchases of pure joy.

I must limit my book intake to those authors I truly love and can't do without. Robin McKinley, Carol Berg, Mercedes Lackey, and Charlaine Harris to name a few. This makes the release of a new books a bit like what Christmas should be (without the fights). The impatiens wonder, the barely contained excitement, and the staying up till ungodly hours reading once the box has been torn asunder.

The above book cover is one of those kind of joys. I hadn't heard a thing for years and just this week I found this and a pre-order on Amazon. I think it will be the last book in a series by Megan Turner who received the Newberry for "The Thief" (book one). If you haven't read these books - YOU SHOULD! They are some of the best YA literature being written today; and not a vampire in sight!

Walk Like

Sliding!

First slide ride. I think she liked it.

Shivering Plants

Two flats of Alyssum, some Begonias, a Poppy or two, Delphiniums, Columbine and three big Lavenders all sit in there pots in the car port because it not only rained it SNOWED this weekend. *Very large sigh* I had wanted to start in on my cottage garden, but was most thoroughly thwarted by the weather.

My lovely husband and daughter went with me Saturday morning as I poked my nose around a number of nurseries. The last one they stayed in the car as the Boo was asleep and it was pouring down rain (and getting cold). I got some chives for putting in with the roses and a couple of other things, but I’ll be back. The man there said I was brave to be out in it, but I’d like to think I’m determined. Besides being the only one there I didn’t have to fight to get around.

Wish it had been one of those warm spring rains, but no it was a clawing to stay winter rain that snowed. People had to scrape their windshields this morning. How wrong is that?

Well, it’s to remain cold for the week while New York and the East are in the 90’s *sigh* wish we could split the difference.