funny thing

today was a busy day. dog day afternoon happens every eight weeks. i take the dogs to the groomer and run errands between the time i drop them off and pick them up two hours later. the upside is that i get to pick up really clean handsome dogs! the downside is i spend all afternoon in my car. i had to go pick up our csa delivery today. we get a huge box of fresh organic veggies every two weeks direct from the farmer. i just love it. you just can't believe how fresh they are unless you get your food this way OR you grow it yourself. speaking of growing your own, if you remember a few weeks back when i was on my VICTORY GARDEN soapbox, my garden is growing quite well, thank you. i've got baby pumpkins right now, some baby cucumbers, and the tomatoes are finally going gang busters. they are ripe yet, but when they are i will have a bumper crop! plus i have one pepper just about ready to harvest.

you are probably wondering why i have two photos of cows here today. these photos were actually taken two weekends ago in musoda (pronounced "musk-oh-day"), wisconsin. we were driving back to the b&b from my art workshop at valley ridge art studio and just down the road from there the sky was so beautiful, i asked marc to pull over so i could take a photo. i hadn't noticed the cows outright, until i was outside the car along side the road taking photos of the beautiful sky when marc exclaimed, "all the cows are watching you!" sure enough, the whole herd had stopped grazing and were all looking up at me. the expression on these cows summed it up so well, i couldn't resist sharing them with you. even the one cow, who's mooning me has turned her head all of the way around to look at me. another reason not to eat meat!

this weekend we are going to research solatubes. this is a kind of skylight thing that brings light into an area where you normally wouldn't place a skylight. we want to put it in my bathroom. there are no windows there and it's dark all of the time. you always need a light on if you go in there. this would make it so much more brighter. maybe i could even put a plant in there? i love plants every where...

we are getting closer to picking a color for our roof shingles. "weathered wood" or "cedar shingle" is the top two candidates. weathered wood is more grey and cedar shingle is more brown. i will have to live with this color choice for the rest of my life here as we don't want to move. we love our house. especially when we eventually get done fixing it all up. so far, we've updated the electrical system, the hvac (furnace & central air conditioning), and the kitchen appliances. painting will be next year. it's a joy and a pain to own a home. i am just not apartment dweller material. i need the privacy a home and yard of one's own provides. also i love to garden, so it's hard to get that with an apartment.