A Bit of Spring

Come early to Number 17...a friend suggested I find myself some potted bulbs to help eliminate some of these Winter Blues that have been hangin' about the place...and since I am quick to embrace any suggestion that involves buying Plants (and/or plant-related stuff), here are the loverly white hyacinths...well....actually, one of the loverly white hyacinths...that now reside in our bedroom...where the cats can't reach them without a great deal of 1) effort and 2) effort that requrires lots of racketing about...

Liberty Finds Her Home

Ya'll remember Liberty? (see several posts down if you don't)...well, congratulations are in order :)

This was posted on BHRG's web site:

"Congratulations! Rattigan, Whiner, Mookie, & Liberty found their forever homes this week!"

We're so happy Liberty found a New Home and in such a short amount of time!

Good Luck, Liberty...

Love & Chocolate

I'm a Stamp Freak...I don't officially collect, but let a beautiful stamp cross the threshold on the daily mail and I'm all over it...I happily rip off the corner of the envelope and then add it to the little jars & boxes of stamps I have sittin' about...even the most mundane stamps are little pieces of art...and the most affordable art I've ever run across...one day I hope to find something spectacular to do with all my stamps...but if I don't, that is cool...I just take them out once in a while and shuffle through the pile...

This is the Valentine's stamp you can get at the post office...I'm not sure that it'll make writing that utility or credit card bill any less painful...well, maybe if you write while eating chocolate and planning something special for a loved one it will...well, probably not...but if you send a nice little note along to an old friend Just Because and top the envelope off with this stamp, then I expect it'll at least brighten 1 person's day :)

Proof Positive That Someone Knew I was Good in 2006

That's Right...after years and years of telling *people* when they asked that Most Hated Question of the Holiday Season "So....what do you want for Christmas?" that I do really truly honestly want a Chia Pet...preferably the Elephant...and being sorely disappointed year after year (well, all I can say is I can show my bee-hind once in a great while...it became a Principle of the Thing point...I was determined not to part with my own cash for a Chia)...I found a sweet Chia Pet at the thrift shop a few weeks back! No, not the beloved Elephant, but I love rabbits, too...in a decorative sort of way...and this one has the seeds!

I do go through spells where I run across scores of Homeless Chias who have, evidently, been sent packing once their owners' supplies of seeds run out...

But wait! You can order seeds from the Chia Pet People (click on the Chia Pet link above)...I don't see the actual "click to buy" button for them, but on my little informational sheet in the box the seeds are offered...3 packs for $5...and if you click on the About Chia Seeds link on the their site, you get the ordering information...and you thought reading this post was going to be a Complete Waste of Your Time...

I can see this Chia Pet things spiralling out of control...I may have to collect them all...well...not Chia Guy...he reminds me of a cross between Shaggy on Scooby Doo and Screech on Saved by the Bell...

In the Pink

Even tho' spring is theoretically a long way down the calendar road, bits of pink bloom here in there in what is turning out to be, not by planning, a Pink Border...nothing on the grand scale of a Jekyll idea of a Border...more of a Little "B" Border...

*that "stuff" you see on the leaves is pollen...yep, the pollen is flyin' in January...