YIPPEE! (Okie for "HOW TREMENDOUSLY EXCITING...")

I haven't fallen off the blogosphere, folks. I've been OUTSIDE! YIPPEE! At least when I'm not working, which is mostly inside, so that when I can finally go home I want nothing more than to go OUTSIDE because it's so incredibly beautiful this week, and there's so much fun stuff to do with plants and flowers and seeds and weeds and stuff. (Pause for breath.)

So, that's where I've been.

This is a great week for anything outside considering the mild temps, mild winds and reasonable humidity. What is this, San Diego?

I'm also reading Edgar Sawtelle, which is an excellent novel so far about a boy and his dog. Not so simple as that, really, but an engrossing, beautifully written story anyway. Sometimes I read and sit outside all at the same time. Amazing.

And then there is dog walking. Several times lately I have managed to take both Spirit, the hundred pound dog/chicken who tries to take my arm off to whip around and run home every time she hears a gun shot. This is the country, folks, so there is some kind of gun shot just about every time we walk. And Spyro, the 70 pound black lab who is the ADHD poster dog when the world is full of birds and bugs, and scents of all kinds of critters, and "Ohhh, look over there! Sheep!" So that's more dog poundage than woman poundage by a good margin. I don't wrap the leashes around anything that could be yanked out of place, should they decide to lurch and run in earnest, and drag me along They really have been walking pretty well lately, so it's enjoyable.

You'll notice that cooking, cleaning, organizing, bill paying, etc. are not on this list. I did some of that last weekend, but only what was ABSOLUTELY required. Like, to keep living in my house and driving my car, and using electricity, etc.

Gene got out the mower today, since the grass is three inches high after all the rain. I noticed he left the front yard. Was that a hint? Heavens to Mergatroid. You mow a lawn once, and suddenly it becomes your job! Just kidding honey. OF COURSE I will help mow this weedy, grassy 5 acres. Since I can do it OUTSIDE.