Neighborhood yard sale

Bought:


Stationery.


Two necklaces.


Santoku knife (Greg put a new edge on it).


Kitty family!


Figurine.


"Cats in the Sun" postcard book.




Birthday book.

With this inside:



What the— !?!!?!

And . . .



Fabulous luxury yarns!!!!

All for ten dollars.

Best day of my life.

eBay dot com

Set for life.

LOOK AT MY PLANTS . . .

. . . AGAIN!



Tomato flower!



Poinsettia!



Mint and geranium!!

YAY!

Awesome

My friend Carey picked up this awesome swag for me the other day at Book Expo America.

Favorites:



Popeye!!



Krazy Kat!!

Now I SO want the new Popeye and Krazy Kat compilations...

Farmers market

Did you know that this is chamomile?



I had no idea.



This plant grew in the schoolyard at my elementary school. I used to pick the flowers and crush them because I loved the smell.

Post office

Pictures cannot describe the New York post office experience.

I went today to pick up a parcel.




Note: About fifty people squashed into a long line in a small room, all disgruntled. Fluorescent lighting, no air conditioning.



Scratched bullet-proof plastic. Toddler underfoot. Mismatched, confusing signage. Crackling microphones.



And always a sad and/or sordid story of some sort: today it was an illiterate middle-aged woman begging unresponsive customers to help her fill out a form for a money order in exchange for $5.

IT IS HELL ON EARTH!

But why?

This is a typical Canadian post office:



Just sayin.

Envelope!!

So exciting to get an envelope from my friend Craig, who inspires minds at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.



Inside:






















Mysterious photocopied book page.

About a skorl encounter!



!!!!!!!!

Also:



Curlywurly [sic] squirlies [sic]!

This must be British.



Hmm. Are the squirlies curlywurly because they were squarshed by a car? Greg and I devoured them (it?).

Thanks Craig!! This made my day—nay, week!—nay, MONTH!!!!

Skunk friend

No, not my friend (I wish!), but the friend of a random stranger from the Internet.



Do you see the kitty tail?

I love looking at this picture.

Three bucks!

Sold a Life magazine (featuring Paul McCartney) I found last week!

Now

They're all swolled up!



Uh, unsurprisingly.

Look at drawings

Good for your brains.

Memorial Day

Dinner for three, the night before Anna went back to Toronto.



Corns.



Salad.



Sausages and asparagus! Wine!

And...



...this AMAZING "no-knead" bread made by Julianna!! Baked in a dutch oven! (In exchange for the iPhone cozy I made her.)

Then we had pie and played Texas hold 'em obsessively.

Good times (until Anna beat our asses).

Beans

Tasty.



Also: Cheap.

Soak 'em.

A sight to make my heart go pitty patty

Hmm.

Closer.



Nothing too interesting...

Except these red and blue stacking file drawers!



I left them there, and now I kind of regret it.

I have lots of files.

Stung by a bee

From.

Via.

Sold!

$152.50.

Proof

An alien shed its skin down the street from my house.





Very creepy.

Fire escape update

Someone has been digging among my tomatoes!





Mint.



Geranium!

I love love LOVE geraniums. Their leaves have the best smell ever.

(That's my poinsettia on the right.)

Found last night!

Paris Champion Fastback!



Floating steering.



Gauges!






















Runners!

It's awesome. I'm keeping it!