Riot and Frolic

– four shirts and four pants pressed.  

– a special wedding yo-yo.  Man, I hope that quilt makes it to Ojai.

– after a long period of silence, the discovery of a new use for the kiddie pool.  Why, a reading nook, of course!

– baby lemons!  They are all over Lola, the lemon tree-bush.  She flowered beautifully and fragrantly upon arrival at my house, and is now busy with about 20 buns in the oven.  I hear lemons take two years to mature, but she is already making new flowers, so once that first harvest happens, it's going to be Lemon City from there on out!

– seeds that actually sprouted.  Woop woop!  I have basil and chives coming up that will need to be transplanted soon.  I also nabbed an heirloom tomato plant at the hardware store for 50% off, so I'll have some funky purple-red tomatoes in a couple months.  

– "finished" my latest spray paint project.  I got these nifty high-top chairs from a co-worker and had this sweet vintage upholstery fabric sitting around that my ma gave me.  The chairs wanted to be spiffed up, so I got some spray paint and found the upholstery tacks I had hidden in my attic and attacked.  More on this when I redo the brown one to match the pretty blue one. 

– a half-hearted manicure more ruined by spray paint.

– a birthday tradition of the drive-in?  Question mark, because we have happened to do it two years in a row and it was perty successful.  This year, we BBQ'ed and hung out and people left as they desired and the Bratts were the last car standing.  Coming home as the sun is coming up?  Neat.  Except when the ladies woke up at 9am anyways.  

    Mae Cake stood like that, surveying her territory and drinking her juice for about a half an     hour.

 - strange restaurant service for the Birthday Dinner.  Also, might be tradition.  But, dessert at the fantastic Salut Bar Americain.  Creme brulee and drinks- yum.

– one married sibling.  Can't wait to hear all about it.

– thanks to Ben Doran, Joseph Hannasch, Ellis VanAlstine, Joe Mollner, and all of the military personnel and families for protecting our country!