Idyllic Chick

Rooster, actually...

My sweetie of sweets raked and cleaned up the front yard today while I was at work! It was such a fresh, clean feeling to come home to, and now I'm very excited about clearing the dead plants out of their little pots and refurbishing the front stoop with new growth. We'll try to grow some grass in front of the house this year, and I'd really like to get the entry flower beds settled up so that I'll only have to maintain them next year. Fill it full of lots of happy, flowering perennials and such, with some annuals in the front. I can't wait until my day off on Tuesday so that I can go play in the yard!

Labels: Gardening

...because I dunno what I'd call this. We took delivery of our new couch today, specially made just for us. Apparently we have, um, 'different' couch needs than most of American society. We don't have enough wall space in our living room to fit a full sized couch, so we got the media seating from La-z-boy. I poo-poo'd the idea until I found out that I could get a chaise on my side. A *reclining* chaise! This thing cost more than my first car. But the cup holders are far superior.

...the mice will not receive any new Netflix, then starve to death.

My life gets so discombobulated when Chris is out of town. Of course, I miss him terribly, but on top of that are all of the other little holes that appear when he is gone. He helps me hold myself together, and when he's not here, my life spooges through all of those little holes.

There are little things amiss, like I can't check the mail because he has the key to the mailbox. There are big things that are a pain, like I have to take care of the dogs all day every day. There are sweet things that I miss, like not being able to make fun of him for watching _Stranger Than Fiction_ yet again. There are things that I don't miss, but that will just be *wrong*, like not having to set the alarm for four days in a row.

He does so much to make up for leaving me in the lurch, though. He did *all* of the laundry yesterday (Hrm. Actually he does that every week! What a guy!). And he made little individual salads in bags for me so that I will still eat a few vegetables between now and Friday.

I'm just so torn between acting like I'm going to get a lot of shit done around the house while he's gone, and behaving like a single chick again and living on mac&chee and vodka for a week. I guess it just comes down to, "Damn. I miss my husband." But it feels like so much more than that.

The rain brought out a new species* in the yard tonight! I'm not sure, but I think it's a brown water snake. I'll have to ask Ginger to confirm that for me this weekend. If I'm right, he's perfectly harmless, though his kind are known to climb trees, and I'm not very comfortable with that. Harmless, sure. But I certainly don't want a snake falling on me when I'm walking the dog.





*New to us. I'm sure this guy's family has been on the property a lot longer than C&I have.

Labels: Flora and Fauna