RAIN WATCHERS

We had a tiny bit of rain last night.  Normally beautiful Austin is DEAD.
Such a draught.  So sad.

We had some bad, mean, dark clouds move in with lightening and thunder.  NO RAIN from them however.  NOT A DROP.  THEN, a couple of hours later, we had a wonderful 10 minute rain shower.

I opened the back screen door so "house-cats" Pancho and Luci, could look at and smell the rain.  I moved some chairs to the door so they could lounge and enjoy the experience.

Pancho was first up.  Loving the thought that he might be able to get out for a few minutes (come back in & throw up of course)!

Then, Luci, NOT wanting to miss out on anything (but having to give up some other household mission - and not understanding the rain thing at all) decided to get into it, wondering what Pancho was up to.

Then Pancho just basically says, "hey Luci I could eat you alive if I wanted to leave me alone get away from me go to hell kiss my ass".

You're wondering why I even took these pictures, aren't you!?

The point is that we got 10 minutes of rain.  :-)

WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION

And this is assuming anybody cares!
I've probably shared some info. about my July trip to California previously but here is my vacation log.  I've been working on it for a while, mainly for me.  This was my first vacation without HUSBAND, and I thought many times about canceling it.  I'm so glad I didn't.

Here's what I did...

I flew here (gotta love the name)...

Stayed here...

Played with friends...

Watched this...

Tried to figure out a way to get THIS back home...

Watched A LOT of these  (what fun!)...

THOUGHT about doing this - didn't...

DIDN'T do this either...

Ate these from the back fence...

Wanted really badly to follow these...

Wanted to STAY here FOREVER...

Lit one of these (I'm not Catholic, but what the hell)...

Drank lots of this...

And this...

Had this for sure...

Did this...

And came home feeling proud of myself...

One step at a time.

STUFF STORAGE or THE STORAGE OF STUFF

This is what OUR "out-of-sight-out-of-mind" STORAGE UNIT looked like previously...

This is what MY "in-sight-always-on-my-mind" GARAGE looks like now...

The difference...

$285.00 a month!!!

There you go!  So, what would YOU do????

Grocery Shopping

I don't keep much food in the house.  It's a household of one.
Ok, I don't want anyone to immediately say "oh, how sad".  NOPE, not sad, just facts.


And I have always HATED the grocery store.
REALLY HATED THE GROCERY STORE!


HUSBAND knew that and did most of the grocery shopping.  He loved it.
He's not here.  (DAMNIT!)


I'm NOT wasting away however.  Did you know that there are these restaurants that have the DRIVE-UP WINDOWS?!?!  Yep.  They are all over the place.


So, anyway, more about my pathetic availability of food in the house...
Finally, when DAUGHTER stayed over several nights ago, I realized, oh poor girl there's nothing to eat in the house.  I went to work and left her in a house with only CAT FOOD.  And margarine.  And beef bouillon.  And mustard.  And Stubb's BBQ sauce.  And Tabasco.  And sugar, flour, vanilla.  That's it.


Asidefromthebeerandwineanddietcokeofcourse.


So I went shopping today after a looonnngggg, not really enjoyable day at work.
Here is what my freezer looked like BEFORE food shopping...

Here is what my freezer looks like tonight AFTER food shopping...
I threw away the peas and fruit. 

And I re-organized things.  I'm good.