Sneaky Hiding Place

We have two cats. 

Well, actually, we don't have any cats, our two youngest sons each have a cat that's not allowed to live with them, so the kitties live with us.

They like to be inside, but at night they are too bothersome. They jump on sleeping people's heads, and pat sleeping people's faces, and meow so loud they make nightmares. So it's their own faults they're now nighttime outside cats. 

The problem is, they found hiding places. For a couple of weeks, we could never find Moni when it was time to go outside, until one day we saw her hopping out of the corner of the top closet shelf.

BUSTED!

Now she goes outside every night.

Do you have sneaky pets?

(Or are yours perfectly behaved, as in, perhaps you don't have any?)

Bricks

When we bought our charming little house in the woods, the plywood skirting had taken enough beating from the sun and snow that it was bent, cracking, and not really worth a picture. (Don't want to give you nightmares.)

So Mr. Fix-it, a.k.a. Bob Bahlmann, replaced it with foam insulation board.

But that's not all! 

Even though it was prettier than the scruffy particle board, it was very plain.

So Bob put some thin coat over it, then traced a brick pattern in the thin coat before letting it dry.

But he wasn't done yet! Using different colors of paint, he went around and around the house again and again, painting the bricks different colors.

Oo-la-la! What a difference some paint makes! Now they're all different colors, but they're still not done. What else can there possibly be?

Shading!

One of the neighbors who didn't watch the process complimented us on our new rock facing.

Yeah. It's amazingly awesome...

...except for the creepy photographer shadow.
Do you like do-it-yourself projects?
What have you tried?

Bunny Fabric

Yay for Easter!

I like fabric. I have to hold myself back from buying as much as I really want to get.

I come by it honestly. My grandmother was a professional seamstress who sewed drill team uniforms, wedding dresses, and did alterations that made clothes fit so well that it looked as if the people who wore them were born in them.

My grandmother's daughter went further, acquiring so much fabric that she actually bought a single wide trailer to keep it all in.

So, I don't know if it's nature or nurture, but I am truly drawn to buy fabric, especially shiny, flowy, beautiful, or interesting fabric.

Yet I saw the futility of having way more than you could make in a lifetime, so I've given a few bushels of fabric away, and I mange to hold myself back, from buying, anyway.

So now I content myself with taking pictures of fabric that grabs my fancy, like this adorable bunny fabric with 3-D bunny tails sewn on! Then I can smile and remember and not have to store the cute stuff.

What do you like to collect?

Two Left Shoes

When I was at the thrift store, I spied a pair of my favorite footwear.

FLIP FLOPS!

(Did I say I love flip flops?)

So of course I tried them on.

Now, I can't understand how this happened, but after walking around in them for five minutes, I decided they were worth $2.00, and I bought them.

Are you laughing?

Can you see what I didn't?

Look at those little letters on the flip flop heels.

One reads "M," and the other reads, what? Can it be? Why, yes, it is! An "L!"

Well I'll be. They aren't the same size.

But that's not all, folks!

Look at the orientation of the toe part.

Both flip flops are angled to the right, meaning...why, yes, it's true! I bought myself a pair of two left flip flops of different sizes.

What was I thinking that day?

I honestly couldn't tell you, because I obviously wasn't thinking.

After this admission, I dare ask you if you've ever had a shopping faux pas. (That means a slip, a mistake or a (heh heh) false step.)

Well?