Mundane.

A Wednesday night with no LOST. I miss it so much already!

These photos are some of what's blooming our the garden right now--a rose, clematis, and two peonies .

M. was home from work today with some intestinal issues. That never happens! He couldn't manage to stay way for the whole day, though, and despite feeling like shit, crawled into work this afternoon. I swear I never in a million years would have guessed that I could resent a PLACE with as much intensity as I would reserve for a particularly nasty person. That was before I married a workaholic.

He ran out to pick up a video to watch tonight, because there's nothing on TV, our girl's in bed, he doesn't have to draw tonight, and both of our Netflix movies are in transit (they'll be here tomorrow). I hate paying for a rental when we have two Netflix on the way, but oh well. He picked out something with the word 'Porno' in it. I don't remember the rest of the title, but that word managed to stick. It's not 'a porno'--just has the word in it. Seth Rogen is in it, and he's usually funny.

I was really hoping to get some gardening time in tonight. It's bad. I mean really bad. Worse than it's ever been, I think. I didn't get to it though. I can enjoy the beauty of the garden for brief seconds, until a giant weed catches my eye and distracts me.

While I made dinner and took care of household chores, M. cleaned out the Ford, as we will be officially turning that over to Dejanique this weekend. She successfully completed her first year of college, so the car is hers. It should get her through school at least.

L & H played outside until I dragged them in for dinner. They have been pestering me for a couple of weeks to get the new cat tree put together. It's been in a big box in the front entryway, and I told them I wasn't going to open it until it was time to assemble, and I wasn't going to assemble until Dej's cats and their cat tree were moved out. They're out now, and L & H have been chomping at the bit to get that cat tree up. The directions were worthless, so the biggest challenge turned out to be trying to keep the kids from trying to just randomly start building while I tried to figure out how to make the bits and pieces go together based on the small black & white line drawing of the completed tree.

The cats were on it before we got it slid into it's spot in Dej's old room (soon to be L's new room). Petey, Hallie, and Tica, in that order, were the first to try it out. After I took these pictures, I peeked in to see Tica lounging on one of the upper shelves. She's never been able to get up and down that high in a cat tree by herself before. It made me so happy to see her up on top like a little queen. It was worth the time, money, and assembly frustrations, just for that moment! Ollie, Baxter, Jasper and Lila checked it out a bit later, while Ivan and Carrie looked nervously at it from across the room, as if it could attack them at any moment.

I didn't make it to the farmer's market today, either. I met an AR friend, Kristin, for lunch at Maharajah (aloo cholee--YUM!). She recently moved from Madison to take a job running the shelter in Neenah. We had a very nice lunch, and since I had quite a lot to get done yet at work, I didn't have the time to spare for the market. I will have to try to get some bunny & gerbil greens from my cousin, who's has an organic CSA farm.