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This .99 cent dress from Goodwill is doing wonders to make me forget my recent retail disappointment. Thank you all for your kind words, and refraining from calling me stooopid.

With any luck, those structures you see in my garden will have patty-pan squash vining up them shortly. The peas are nearly done, and the string beans will go in their place. It is still freezing here, so we've had to improvise with the gardening a bit. I've had my best-ever crop of peas though, given the extended cool weather.

Borage flowers made it into last evening's salad. Everything on the plate came from my garden, which pleases me no end.

Now, a bit of sad news. The arborists showed up yesterday with chainsaws to deal with limbs near power lines, and taking down dead trees. What you see in the photo is Blondin looking for where his favourite perch/stash of food formerly sat. We watched him run frantically through the tree, and across scattered limbs on the ground looking for his carefully hoarded food. It was heartbreaking. The birds seemed out-of-sorts as well, having spent so much time pounding seeds into cracks in the bark. At least this tree is healthy, and remains-the other was felled leaving but a short stump in the lawn. Blondin has been on our patio most of the day begging, understandably. At least it is early enough in the season he can rebuild his supplies for winter. Poor fella.

"It was RIGHT HERE! I know I'm not losing my mind! What the hell?!?"

Speaking of wildlife...

I did not buy this, though Danny really wants it. After several months at the thrift store, the bunnies made it to the half-price room, but I still think $25. is a bit steep for this "textured" (to look like an oil painting) print. The frame is OK, but not for that kind of money. He's considering buying it with his own money so he can hang it in his own place some day, and ensure he'll be remaining single for the rest of his life.
"But they're killer bunny rabbits."

Danny made friends with a sales assistant at the local department store's perfume department. He fell in love with Shalimar Souffle (which resembles Shalimar in name only, but that's the world of flankers) but at $127. a bottle, he was hoping to try a small sample and see if he liked it enough to invest in it. Samples are hard to come by in the low-end department stores, and they had none. The SA, amused by a perfume obsessed 10 year old boy, sold him a refillable atomiser that holds 1/2 ounce for $15. and then filled it for him from the tester. Filled it all the way. That's a whole hell of a lot of Guerlain for $15.  I suspect he'll want a large bottle, and being a limited edition that I don't think will be a big seller (oh god, two kinds of vanilla and a shit-load of citrus, blerg.) it will likely be gone soon. I will probably get him a large bottle, and give it to him at Christmas...so shhhhhhhh. The blue bottle is very pretty though, I will say that.

Outfit Particulars:

Dress-Goodwill
Necklace-Salvation Army
Earrings-Hand-Me-Ups
Shoes-Hand-Me-Ups
Brooch-Goodwill (I think?)
Shell bracelet-Hand-Me-Ups
Handbag-Thrift World
Fragrance-Guerlain Jardins de Bagatelle
Lippy-Loreal Fuchsia Flash (I love this lipstick so much I wish it went with everything)

I'm off to cook Blondin dinner do some chores.  If you see a confused, weeping squirrel in the vicinity of 90th and Dodge in Omaha, toss him something good-he's had a rough day!