Check this out:

Alarmed skorl!
















Thanks Golden Gems.

What is up with the squirrel's nest?

It lost all its stuffing.

"Shorts"

They're almost done and they are looking pretty weird!



I'm hoping that a waistband and little cuffs will bring it all together.

Well, it's officially summer

On Graham Avenue, anyway.

I found this!

Silk scarf. In the trash.



Mine now!

How to confuse a squirrel

Ceramic mixed nuts!

Easter basket

Abandoned.





If I were a little kitty I'd curl right up in there.

Kitchen: Now with yellow

Today I painted the end wall and the backsplash. I like!

Interesting

We have a piece of yarn on our counter that looks just like a piece of spaghetti.



It fooled our houseguest, Bree, and it fooled me.

Not Greg, or so he claims.

You have to spend money to make money!

That was my theory last night anyway.

Cardboard appliances!

These are nice too:



Sometimes bougie holistic children's shops get it right.

Change

$24.12

The coin-counting machine asks you to guess, and if you are within $1.99 you get a prize. I guessed $20.

:(

Guess how much?

I'm just about to take it to the bank.

I guess . . . thirty dollars. Greg says sixty!

UPDATE: No wait, I change my guess to twenty dollars!

Another house in the desert!

I must have one of these dwellings; a double-wide for me and Greg.



Louvers:



Under-floor storage:



Stove-n-sink to die for!




































Natural alarm clock:




































Designed and built (in progress) by Ben Lepley; thanks to Reference Library for the link.

The other windowsill

Open spring window!!



With specimens.

Feels good.

Windowsill flora update

Christmas cactus is doing well.



Bulb . . . not so much.



I think it's a dud.

UPDATE: Beth says, put it in dirt.

Do you think she looks excited for her new navy-blue shorts?

I think she does.

Future

I got it pretty much mapped out.





Yep.

I am digging on this!

Check out this guy's house in the desert!

McCarren Park

The park came alive this weekend!

Blue skies (and garbage):



Baseball:



Dogs:



Hipsters:



Beer drinking:



Springtime in Williamsburg!

New styles: shopping bag

No, not a canvas tote bag. Not a Tyvek or nylon tote bag either. Nor a carefully preserved paper bag from a fancy store: I'm talking about the plastic kind, from Met Foods!



Grab one from under the counter. Stick your stuff in it. There you go!

I think it's a good look. And it's free. Own it!

More Mom

My mom transported the skate egg cases in this bag:



Bulk Barn! Le plus important détaillant d'aliments en vrac Canada! From the Real Atlantic Superstore mall on Portland Street in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia!

I ain't seen one of these in a long, long time.

Biggest envelope in the world!

Right?

Thanks Mom!

In addition to the camping kettle, butter, and bowl, she brought us this array of specimens from the Jersey Shore.



We think there are mini (fetal?) sharks—or skates?—inside!

Kinda gross, kinda cool.

Raise your hand if you don't like this dress

Pretty nice.

New sweater

Well, it used to be a sweater.

Thanks eBay!

Thanks Mom!

In addition to the camping kettle, my mother brought us:

Canadian butter!



And a beautiful bowl she made herself.





Thank you!

Moby Dick

I came upon this place just as I was listening to the part in Moby Dick where Queequeg has his coffin made.





Creepy.

I know this is sophomoric

But it still made me laugh.





Ha!

Laws of chemistry

This place opened down the street from my house on the weekend. Greg and I stopped by to try their coffee on Sunday AND IT WAS PACKED! Seriously, there was a long, long lineup, people at the deli case, all the chairs were full, there were four employees working full out.



It made me think about osmosis: Hipsters must immediately pass through the semipermeable membrane of the doorway of a new place like this, to balance their distribution in the environment.