"May you live in interesting times..."

[tikatu]

I guess I'm living in them.

It's been an interesting past few days. We got the notice over the weekend that Boy #1 has been invited to go to the Arts Awakening weekend again. It'll be over his dad's birthday, but that's okay. We'll celebrate at some other point. The weekend camp is sp onsored by the YMCA for the public schools, is by invitation only, and this is the second year that he's been tapped for the honor. He's already said he doesn't want to go up into the high ropes like last year - and I hope he doesn't get sick like last year either.

Last night we had an interesting visitor. I had taken Lacey out for a constitutional and heard a scrabbling on the bark of one of the pecan trees between our yard and the neighbors'. The scrabbling turned out to be something climbing said tree. At first I thought it was Tika, with her tail all puffed out, but once I got the back yard spotlights on, I could see it was a raccoon! It got up into the first split of the pecan tree's branches, 15+ feet up, and stayed there as long as Lacey was outside. So, I tied her out and went looking for the camera. The Girl was still awake, so we grabbed a flashlight and the digital camera and headed out to take pictures. At one point, we disturbed the neighbors, who came out and asked what was going on. He was rather impressed that Lacey had treed a 'coon!

The new dishwasher is very good! It really cleans the dishes well, and has a disposal portion, too. It seems to take longer than the old one did, but it dries the dishes and everything gets really clean. It even works with the solid detergent tabs that I'd bought before the old one went completely.

We finally got Hubby a much-needed cell phone. He doesn't like it, but admits it makes his life on the road a lot easier. We've also used some of the tax refund to buy the rest of the fencing - not including gates. It came this past Thursday, and I'm looking forward to Hubby being able to get it all up.

I was featured on the FanLib carousel today - with my drabble "Green", excerpted from Mosaic. I'd entered it into a drabble contest, but hadn't won. This is a better reward, I think. I'm working hard on finishing one or more WIPs; new chapters up for The White Winds and Resolutions: Redux, with a second TWW chapter halfway done. The RP has picked up tremendously over the past couple of weeks and it looks like we may have another player - this time from Australia. We'll have to really shuffle things around for her to make it to brainstorming sessions!

More later!

Comments

[grumpymagrat.livejournal.com]

Congratulations Boy #1. What an honor.

Thought it might have been a 'coon when I saw the picture. Way to go Lacey.

I was so excited when I saw you made the carousel. YAY! But I was so pissed that you didn't win the constest. You deserved it.

[tikatu.livejournal.com]

Thanks, grumpy! I'll admit I was disappointed that I didn't win, but happy that Quiller did. Got to get Thunderbirds out there somehow, right? I did tie for first in another contest, though.

Looking forward to seeing what my son brings home from art camp this time. Last year, he had a picture entered into a juried art show, and took second place! But what he brought home! Carnivorous trees, and monkeys with goggles... all done in reds, blacks and whites! Wish this had been available to my daughter when she was his age, but she only had one year in the public middle school. She's doing well in her HS art program, though.

Hope you're doing better yourself! And thanks for voting for me!