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August 24, 2008
IKEA the day away...
Ooo..I just looked out the window and saw a Monarch...I bet its the beginning of the migration to Mexico...I hope we get lotsa eggs and caterpillars..the garden is flush with flowers and we've been visited by 4 or 5 Queens, lotsa large yellow Sulphurs and white cabbage lopers, along w/ the various bees and hummingbirds...I spied a carolina wren in the street yesterday, next to what looked like a worm...turns out, it was a small 4" snake and I think the bird wanted it for lunch, but the snake wasn't playing along...the little birdy hopped away and then I saw the snake cross the dirt road...it had a pattern on its back, but I couldn't tell what it was exactly...for all the times I've taken the dog out into the middle of the field behind the High School, I've never ever seen a snake out there...but I've seen two in my street...awesome!
We've spent the day upstairs working on building IKEA furniture to hold my yarn collection, which isn't nearly as large as you might think, but I can't SEE it when its stuffed in wicker bins and shoved into a corner closet...so, its now out, in drawers, I can see my inventory and actually USE the dang stuff...I love it...the upstairs is starting to look more like a real room instead of the carpeted attic that it's been treated as such...we just need more storage up there where I can load my stuff into...we're working on it...it just takes time...we have another 6 drawer dresser to build, I'm not sure what'll go in it, cause all my yarn is accounted for, but I have plenty of other stuff that can just go in it for the sake of getting it out of sight...I've still go work to do up there, but its feeling like a real room now...
Its Brian's birthday today and he decided he wanted to do the Spaghetti Feast at Alamo Drafthouse, where we'll partake of the movie Fistfull of Dollars (spaghetti western, of course) and eat all the pasta we want...sounds wonderful...we've been watching the TNT presentation of Lord of the Ring while upstairs today, so it's been quite the movie-laden day for him...still hasn't opened his presents, I guess we'll do that later tonight...he didn't want a cake, and he says this is his 'last' birthday to celebrate cause next year he turns 40 and he doesn't think he wants to recognize those numbers in that order...I told him 'sure, ok, fine, but you know that means you won't get any presents if we don't celebrate it'...he'll have a year to contemplate that...
Posted by Donner at August 24, 2008 04:14 PM