Random Tuesday Stuff

Oh, look, it's raining again. Such a surprise.

This past weekend, before I started killing brain cells that I really, REALLY cannot afford to lose, I had to move my garden. You know, my vegetable garden? The one with all the potential? Well, it turns out that if I wanted to see any vegetables in real life instead of in my mind, it needed more sun. Now that the leaves have filled in on the trees, there just wasn't any way it would get the six or more hours of direct sunlight it needed.( Spring happened here practically overnight. Classic Coop-ism, "You'd think it would hurt the trees to push out leaves that fast." I'm picturing the trees all red-faced and sweaty, "Dang, next year, I SWEAR I'm not going to let the deadline sneak up on me. I'm freaking exhausted.")

Anyway, I had to move it. In order to depict the move, I have trotted out my ever-so-adept Photoshop skills. (Okay, so the Pioneer Woman I am not. Stop that laughing.)

Luckily, my father-in-law is visiting and as we all know, he is the King of Homegrown Tomatoes Everywhere. So, he gave me planting advice and then he was concerned about the state of my little seedlings so he bought me some plant food and actually explained to me (several times, see White Russians Equal Death) how to feed the little things. Now we just need a little sunshine--HELLO--and maybe we'll be seeing some tomatoes soon.

It could happen.

I'm on Day Two of never drinking again. The thought still makes me want to... well, let's just not even go there, shall we?

Progress on the organizational front? Um, zero. Well, actually, that's not technically true. I now have some cabinets in which to put more boxes and at least get them out of my line of sight, where they sit reproaching me for failing my German heritage. Yesterday, our amazing contractor, handyman guy brought the cabinets and installed them.This one is in the Butler's Pantry.

And this one is in the laundry room. (Dudes, again with my stellar photoshopping. Hey, be nice. It's not so easy with one of those stupid touch pad mouses. (Mice?))

I didn't want to actually SHOW the cat box, which needs cleaning, but we took the center panel out of the cabinet. I am going to put some sort of flap on there (Coop suggested Love Beads but I think not.) and then I'll take a real picture. [NOTE: STOP READING HERE IF YOU'RE SQUEAMISH: Annabanana, the secret to stopping the dogs from helping themselves to a crispy-coated treat is to make the hole smaller than their heads, but big enough for the cat and then to put a child proof lock on the cabinet door. Luckily for me, Syd has outgrown this particularly nasty habit. But back in Austin, we had the cabinet featured in THIS post.OKAY, SAFE TO READ AGAIN.]

I'm going to tile the tops of the new cabinets because I love to lay me some tile. (Have I mentioned that I own my own wet saw? You sure?)

I went shopping for tile and, wow, I had to honestly just not go completely crazy and Tile Everything. I found a tile I like and brought home a sample and showed it to Coop. (Another classic Coop-ism, "Well, I LIKE it. But I think we need to be careful that it doesn't resemble something with MOLD on it." Good point, there. Because I hate it when the tile in my kitchen looks like mold.)

Okay, that's absolutely as many links to to my own work as I can possibly fit into one blog post. I'd like to point out, though, that each of them, and each of the photos, will open into a whole new window if you click on them to enlarge. Because I am an HTML GODDESS, do you hear me?

Stop that laughing. Just... oh, well, okay.