Happy Mother's Day, Mom!

I love you, even if you did make us wear matching leisure suits. :)

Trip to Treasure Island

Sorry, no pirates.

Jeff and I took a long weekend to recharge at his uncles' place on Treasure Island, FL. I planned to do nothing the whole time, and that's pretty much what happened.

This is the view from the balcony, where I spent most of my time:

That's the Gulf of Mexico there. We started every morning with a walk on the beach. If I made the effort to look over the balcony the other way, this was the view:

That's the Intercostal Waterway. Lots of pelicans.

I can almost believe it's spring

Look! Buds on my dwarf nectarine!

It's a container variety, so very small. But with all those buds, it seems very happy! I really don't think I'll get that many nectarines, but it sure is pretty.

Of course, those buds are getting covered up tonight because it's going to be below freezing. That's why these radish sprouts are covered up, too.

They were covered up last night, too, and I just left it on today since it wasn't too warm. They seem happy.

New furniture

Other than being ill and trying to get the garden started, we've been furniture shopping.

The dogs approve of the new couch. That's a slipcover on it already, with an auxiliary blanket on it, yes. Kaylee threw up all over the last couch, so I'm not taking any chances. It's blue denim under there, and I may get a denim slipcover, too, in case I ever want to see it.

I also got myself a recliner, and I'm sure Jeff will take a photo of me asleep in it at some point. For now, I can tell you that it's very comfortable, having spent two days in it watching Law & Order and sleeping (can you tell the difference between the two? I couldn't).

Now I just need to get Jeff to buy a flat-screen TV and we can rearrange the living room how I want it. He's just being unreasonable by not doing that, don't you think?

Hoppy Spring!

Well, we've survived the blizzard

Somehow, with the TV, books, food, and the internet, we survived 24 hours of snow and wind. My back and legs hurt from all the shoveling, but if we hadn't kept up with it, we would have been shoveling a foot of snow at once rather three to four inches at once.

The photo was taken around ten in the morning on Saturday, so we probably got three or four more inches of snow after this. What you're seeing is Jeff about to ruin all my lovely, clear paths; he got the snow off the fabric of the gazebo, then had to shovel it all off.

Cordy is having a wonderful time in all the snow. Kaylee, on the other hand (or paw, as it may be), is up to her shoulders in snow. Hence all the paths dug into the snow.

The sun's out this afternoon and already melting the snow (where is it going to go? the sewers are completely blocked), and Cordy is having to make do with laying down, half-buried in the snow, in the shade to watch for squirrels.

The two humans in the house went grocery shopping today, and except for the idiots who didn't know how to drive in the snow, it was just fine out. We might be flooded in a day or two, but I'm pretty sure we'll survive the Great Blizzard of 2008.

Apparently, we're having a blizzard

I've lost count of how many times I've shoveled snow.