Ode to Chris

Poor Chris... He broke his clavicle last week.

I whipped him up some boxer shorts with this snazzy fabric that he fancied.



I was in such a hurry to get it packaged up and mailed I didn't get a picture of the shorts themselves... Maybe I can get Chris to send me a picture of him modeling them...

Summer...

just started and it's already flying by! Holy cow. My arms and back are super tan, but the rest of my body is as white as the day I got home from Antarctica... I'm an odd sight in a swimming suite I bet. Though I haven't made it into a suit yet! My friend Chris said he'd teach me how to swim... better (what I do is kinda embarrassing) but he moved himself to Boise and with the price of fuel, there's a slim chance I'll be spending the money to drive down there for the weekend...

Here's a pretty little picture of my lily white legs, one with a few gashes in it from a blonde moment at work.



My garden is going crazy with blooms. And my strawberry plants are loaded with little green strawberries hanging like grapes from them. A few things have gotten eaten by some fuzzy little wildlife that has moved in recently. But I won't be chasing them off because I think they're so dang cute. I hope they don't eat too much.



Here are some of my garden flower pictures for your viewing pleasure:









Unfortunately... sort of... I didn't get the bathroom sheetrocked or the bathtub installed last weekend. It was, after all, Father's Day, and my pops was working on helping me finish insulating the bathroom walls before we seal them up with the sheet rock. Then I skipped out on helping him in the afternoon and made dinner for the fam. We had a delicious dinner of bbq steak and other various tasties. Then we went and planted a pear tree I got him for his special day. My dad is awesome.



That's my bro on the left, Dave, my dad in the middle, David, and my mummer on the right, Mary. It's just like old times... I'll have to put up a picture on here of all of us gardening when I was just knee high.

So, since Dave was over, we had to take advantage of his muscles, and we had him help us carry the new (cast iron) tub into the bathroom. I certainly don't need back problems!



And my parting picture, these are my new roomies...

Miss Sugar Pumpkin...

is the name of a very sick little kitty I found in the yard of a vacant house in Troy as I was mowing yesterday afternoon. She's a stray kitty, not friendly and not clean... or healthy. She was completely out of it, stumbling around, falling over, and didn't even realize I was right next to her. After calling a Moscow vet and the Troy vet clinic (which is open by appointment only) and calling the Mosocw Police and talking to the Latah County dispatcher, I came to the conclusion that no one cared about this sick little kitty except me.

After finishing up my lawns for the day, I returned to the lawn where I saw her and found her right where I left her, huddled up under the edge of a bush. Of course I didn't have a kitty carrier in my pickup waiting for me to rescue strays all over the country... It's a good thing I don't find sick and injured animals very often... So, I went over to neighbor Ali's house and asked if she had a box I could take the kitty home in. She produced a perfect sized box and an old sheet, which helped a lot in catching the little scamper.

Last night Pumpkin slept in my kitchen in a pet carrier. She ate a tiny bit of food but then proptly passed out in it. At least she made it through the night. I'm hoping that she'll still be kicking by Monday so I can take her to the vet to get her checked out, though if not, at least she's had a luxury hotel to sleep in instead of the rain, cold, and bushes where I found her.

Poor little thing.

Rainy days...

give me a chance to catch up on paperwork. Luckily for me, it's been raining a lot lately. So I've already caught up on paperwork, now I have time for blogging! Yay!!!

I'm back in the groove of mowing lawns everyday, besides your basic yard work and gardening. My own lawn and garden look sorely neglected, though I have managed to mow twice and have gotten some nasturtiums, eggplants, zucchinis, and mini sugar pumpkins planted. I still have to get in and pick up the leaf piles I raked up months ago... I was also hoping to get up to the picnic ground to do some clean up work so that I possibly can have a couple picnics this summer too... We'll see. Unfortunately my days off are rainy days and those days aren't good for doing outside work...

A couple weeks ago I managed to talk my friend Chris into coming to Moscow to deliver some artwork I wanted to buy from him. In return for the art, I let him work with me for a week. I thought it was a pretty fair trade...





Although he wasn't a very fast worker since he had broken his heel bone the month before and was still gimping around from it. And also while he was here he came down with the single-wide sickness I've been battling since I got home from the ice.




Last weekend I managed to get out of town. I got my yard work done on time despite the afternoon rain storms. My friend Chris and I did some yard sailing and some Good Will shopping. I found a sweet $20 BBQ to bring home, propane tank and all! And at wiped out Good Will of all of their wool sweaters!!! I'll be rolling in felted craft projects in no time at all! I'm quite excited.



This picture above is Chris on his brand spanking new clay brown velour sofa in his cozy little pool boy cabin near downtown Boise. He was being a little camera shy.

Besides trying to get the felted crafts rolling, I've started another knitting project. I'm knitting squares of different colored yarns, then am going to felt them and then sew them together into a quilt. It should be rainbow-tastic.



As far as bathroom progress, it's still coming along slowly. The rewiring is close to being finished. Since the walls are thinner than the standard thickness (being built with one by ones and all... It is a single-wide you know) a few of the electrical boxes need to be 'custom fitted' to fit in the walls. The plumbing is just about done, and soon the tub will be in and then we can put up the backer-board for tiling and the drywall. Soon is such a relative word.



Besides the bathroom work. I've found that some of the other outlets need replacing also... by means of testing them with a space heater.