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I must go now, the "rain" outside is calling to me.

Any of you who've read my blog for any length of time have certainly heard about the terrible weather we have here in the Northwest.


All it ever does is rain. Rain, rain, rain. It is horrible. You'd hate it here.
I even had to set up a canopy for our birthday party this last weekend because of all the hot, bright... rain. The kids played water balloon capture the flag, you know, since we are all so accustom to being wet all the time.

I've noticed people have been giving tours of their growing things so I thought I would share some of mine.
Here are some little bright pink flowers on a bush.

Here are some big bright pink flowers on a bush.

Here are some little light pink flowers on a bush.

Here are some large light pink flowers on a bush.

Here is a bush with no flowers, but different colored leaves, ooooooo.

...and I'm spent. Gardening is not, as you may have guessed, my forte. I do mow though, and use a big set of yard scissors to keep our pathways clear (what do you call those? Pruning something or other I think). See what a nice job I do though?

The Things help too. Here is Thing One cleaning out the gutters on the garage. He is so happy about doing this because he is earning extra money and he has his eye on an MP3 player. He also gets to climb around on the roof, so for him it's really a twofer.
Here is the first cute little tomato from our plants in the breakfast room. See, this is another benefit of buying natural produce. If you don't eat it quickly enough you can just plant it and wait longer! :p
Last but not least, I have a new bag. I bought for Mr. Logo to buy for me for Mother's Day.

I'm actually more likely to carry a purse in spring and summer than the rest of the year since I have to have a place to carry sunscreen, and sunglasses. Not to mention that warmer weather clothes are less likely to have sufficent pockets than my cooler weather combos but I still have to carry the basic four (keys, wallet, cell phone, lip stuff). Two tiny little pockets that empty themselves when you sit down just won't work, ok. What are those designers thinking??

Anyway, this bag has a vaguely doctor-bag shape. It has double zippers and it opens up nice and wide. It has three different pockets which are perfect and hold all my stuff with just a little room to spare.

Lastly, I thought I would share one of the best presents Thing Two received. The Esteemed Elder Sister gave him an Amazon gift card and he order these.

If you must buy a gift for a male child, remember these titles.

It's birthday time again

2006
2007
2007
2008
2008

Thing Two is 9.

Happy Birthday!

I've been tagged

When I had to get a new phone I had them save all the photos off the old one.

Among them was this pic of the Things at the dress up corner at the SAM.

This next photo is off the new cam and was taken last week at a local library where the Things assaulted a lovely sculpture of an elderly man. Thing Two is giving him a noogie, while Thing One appears to be picking his nose. I don't know what happened with them, I'm trying to find their real parents. This is not a phone cam pic, Mr. Logo took it on a motorcyle trip.
Next, we have a meme-oir. Weirsdo tagged me.



Here are the rules:

1. Write your own six-word memoir.
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like.
3. Link to the person who tagged you in your post.
4. Tag five more blogs with links.
5. And don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!
Learning to grow, embrace, and fly.

How YOU doin'?

A thing and an other thing

This is a meme I "borrowed" from Lime. Lime is one of those GOOD bloggers.

She posts regularly, says interesting things, and visits other people's blogs.

5 things found in your bag:

Well, here this will be quicker, let me show you.

Change purse, Advil, mints in a Happy Bunny tin, chapstick stuff, drug pens, nice pen in metal carrying thingee, paper, and a hair band.

You will notice there is no wallet there, that is because I actually carry it with me.

So it goes on the counter, beside my new phone. Yes, I know it's not as cool as the last one, I don't want to talk about it.

5 favorite things in your room:

That should count as a couple things, I love my pillow, and my mattress, and my blankets, ooooh how I love me bed. You can do so many lovely things in it. Yes, you pervs, I meant that, but also the sleeping and the reading.

The following things are doo dads on my dresser. I am not really into collecting things but these are awfully pretty. That one? Yeah, it's a Faberge egg. For years, when I was asked if I collected anything I would say Faberge eggs, just to be difficult. So he got me one :P I love that man.

5 things you have always wanted to do:

I want to actually see a priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a bar, I think that counts as 3 things, don't you?

4. I want to get an adequate explanation for why negative numbers are called real numbers

(You think they are real? Ok, hand me -4 apples. Alrighty then, that ain't real).

5. I still want to go to Paris.


5 things you are currently into:


1. Wii Sports™ (I am kicking @$$ at Wii Tennis, something I could never do at real tennis).

2. xkcd tee hee hee

3. Supporting locally owned businesses

4. A beautiful May day,

also, unfortunately, allergy season.

AAAAAAAND
5.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I am also suppose to tag people, but you know how I feel about that.

Oh, and the other thing, my kids and I have been digging this lately.

It's National Poetry Month, did you know?

I thought I would share another of my favorite poems with you all. I have rather a lot of them, but I've tried to part them out over time so as not to be tiresome. Anyway, if you have a favorite poem, and you are willing to tell us about it, stick it on your comment, or a link to it, per favore, and we can all share the love.

i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)