Totally awesome girl's softball! And I recognized some of the school names, cause my hometown, Indianapolis! (before I clicked on the article, I was like "Roncalli and Bishop Chartard? Is this in Indy?")

I used wine bottles among my pot plants as suncatchers

I, too, did a double-take at this and thought "...you have many pot plants??"

and thought "...you have many pot plants??"

I was just going to wonder why she wasn't sharing.

Except my brain was all goody goody and translated it to potted plants. Bad brain!

Hee! No pot plants. Actually, in the new house, no plants in pots, either. But here are the plants I used to have. Oh and this is after I cleaned the deck up. At one point, where the shelves are in these pictures, I had a redwood picnic table shoved against the wall, the bench in these pictures set against the wall on top of the table, and I used it as a potting bench and shelf, with the second bench shoved up underneath the table as a lower shelf. I had stacks and stacks of terra cotta pots and saucers of all sizes stored under the table--it was dark and mossy and cool and wonderful on hot sunny days, with the plants and the swing and canopy. But the damp rotted the floor boards, and then we started having freaky microbursts that caught the canopy and the swing tried to fly--actually landing in the front yard twice before I gave up and removed the canopy. It wound up blown onto its side and scraped to the other end of the deck by wind, even then, so it got consigned to the yard, the pots all went into covered storage in the barn, and the hibiscus pots got wired to the bench so they wouldn't take flight.

I miss the deck, actually. It was a lovely outdoor room from April to November.

hey, guess who woke me up at 3:30, because it was too scary. and yes, I am the only one still awake from that.

Hey, awesome! I am up because I gave up and took cough medicine in the middle of the third period, which meant that I conked out around eight o`clock, and also that the meds wore off about an hour ago, so huge horking coughing fit. I am so over this cold.
 
BUT! Yes, I was very excited about the game. I think our defense played badly both games, but we still won. And we`ve been playing better on the road, so we`ll have to see what happens when we get to Philly. C`mon Lord Stanley!

Beverly, I believe in God, but I spell it Nature. I just love that.

Loud enough thunderboomers at 3 in the morning that I woke up too, but the cats remained as little furry lumps holding down inconvenient portions of the bedclothes.

Like Theo, I woke up a three, but not just due to the thunderstorms. I was also feeling queasy as hell. Around the time I usually get up for work, it got so bad I threw up. Still feeling queasy, not as bad, but it also seems to have moved down lower in my GI. Ugh. Do. Not. Want.

I just gave notice.

I just read beep me. OMG, so sorry, -t.

Think, I'll just skip the stuff I was going to post.