Love the saying! And, I must also say "I love Wyatt!" IMO, Cats, dogs, and I even saw someone with a pet bunny ARE the most wonderful garden decor!" Jeanette from Mississippi my favorite quotes(not gardening, though...): "We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanual Kant "The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals" ~ Anonymous "Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" ~ Theophile

When DD was small she watched me dress, and admired the bra I was putting on - it had a touch of lace on it. Later at the grocery store she announced to the bag boy "Mommy is wearing a really pretty bra today". I nearly died, the poor teenage boy almost died from blushing. Then DD said "No, really, she does. Go on mommy, show him!". I did not, thank you LOL. Another time she saw a cashier wearing a hijab and asked me if her hair was wet, because she was wearing a towel on her head. I explained what it really was, and that it was a religious symbol etc. etc. She really seemed to understand and that was that. But later, as we left the store, she yelled out to that cashier "Good-bye! And I am sorry you have to wear that towel on your head!". When she was REALLY small, she decided that she did not like vegetables, and all vegetables were PEAS. She was offered a sample of pasta. She peeked into the little cup and saw the veggies mixed in and said "No tak-you. It a pea!". She was always very polite LOL. She was (still is) fussy about food especially anything new. She had eaten plain pasta before, but I had cooked bow tie noodles this time. She was suspicious. I told her it was the same as the other noodles, just a different shape. She carefully licked the edge of a bowtie, and shuddered. I was so mad I had to STAND ON THE PORCH! Her and DH still get a kick out of that one. Dances.

We moved into a neighborhood of 1960s-70s colonials. One of the many things I liked about our house was the black slate foyer floor. A new friend came by and mentioned that "that slate is really easy to remove" and she had just put new large-format tile in her foyer instead. 12 years later and I still prefer my black slate. The other thing I wouldn't and won't change is the kitchen curtains. The kitchen faces the street and includes a breakfast nook, so we need some curtains, but I don't want to block the view altogether. The house came with cafe curtains, as well as an upper tier of curtains (not a valance) for the larger breakfast nook windows. They are somewhat sheer, maybe translucent is the word, which I like: it's like looking through lightly-frosted glass so I can see if someone is walking by the house without really being able to see who they are. The little ruffle probably dates them the most, but given that they are otherwise plain it's cute. What I'd really like is a toile pattern, but I just can't find a fabric that is translucent, without being "shiny".

I had a mat, but the chipmunk who lives in our shrubbery decided to eat it. I don't know where the little beastie put all the mat; he must have welcomed some of his rodent friends over for the feast.