An early morning visitor

I heard something larger and slower than a squirrel crashing through the brush beyond the back yard and wondered what it could be.  I was not expecting to see this handsome little guy poking around the orange trees.

He didn't want to come over to me and the grass was still too wet for me to want to go over to him so I just watched him while he walked around the backyard at his leisure, made some poops, and then continued on his way.

I hope I can look forward to more pop ins from him in the future.

It's nice to spend the morning so peacefully, I have a big day ahead of me today.  My grandfather is coming home!  I am excited but also nervous to see how things go.

I spent all day yesterday getting things in order around the house.  I'm probably not going to be driving my car for a while so I washed it and waxed it yesterday to what I think you'll agree is a mirror-like finish:

You could put on your make up in that door!

It's also become winter in the past few days and since I only brought t-shirts and shorts up in September I decided to pick up a few fall essentials.  I ended up basically getting items that were as close as I could get to my favorite things Jon wears.

I was trying to take a picture of the result to show him when that greedy camera hog had to get in on the action:

It made me realize though that I really don't have very many pictures of me and kitty together which makes me sad.  I guess the problem is just that it's hard to finagle him in to a position for a picture so I usually just end up chasing him around with my phone.  But, I'm always up for a challenge, so you can look forward to more pictures of us together in the future. .

Hopefully.

For now though, I've got to go get my grandfather!

tervis tumblers

First of all, I love everything about these guys.  I'll go ahead and let you all down now by telling you that I didn't get any of the dog ones, but I did love them all.  They also had kitties, but nearly the variety that they had of dogs.  They didn't even have the same breed as the detective, much less a handsome black cat.

But the point of this post is about how I got a new phone today and was actually able to recover the pictures I'd taken over the past couple days.  This was the first one that came up when I put them on my computer.  I liked them then, I like them now.

As part of our continuing series, "making the backyard awesome" Scott and I  went down to the Tervis Tumbler factory store and browsed their literally shelves of outdoor cups.  They had a lot of boring sports ones, and several like the dogs that were just kind of strange, but then they had a bunch that were amazing.

We ended up deciding to get four medium size cups and four giant size cups and to mix and match where we each picked two and two.  I'm sure I will post all 8 over the course of the summer, can you spot them all?

Here are the first two:

I think the cockatoo was the first cup I saw that I fell in love with, mostly because that is the bird version of me if ever I've seen one.  Scott chose the hibiscus, after much pointing to it by me.  Don't they look so great against a background of greyhound?

Can't wait for summer.