Buy Local (and other time-wasting adventures).

Sometimes I check my Bloglines and half expect a post from this very web-blog to just appear.  Like magic.  Saying, "You've accomplished things!  Go You!".  But it never happens.  So. 

Here is one more reason to love and frequent your locally owned grocery store:

I've seen Kristin's bibs there and Jill's journals (and so much more!) and all manner of locally produced food labels... This could turn into one of the posts debating the finer points of ethically driven consumerism or the (lack of) availability of cheap good food for the masses.  It won't.  I shop at Target just like everybody else.  It's just really nice to see something like this while waiting in line at the checkstand. 

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It was a good week for our yard.  We're nearly ready to get cracking on our "gitchyer dogs off my grass" fencing project.  If only there were a spray for the dog's white-trash owners.  I took Sam to two local nurseries and sprung for the sorts of plants that real grown-ups buy-- anchor shrubs, natives, shade-loving perennials.  When we bought this place, I knew that I wouldn't be able to put in the kind of garden that I had dreamed about.  I'm finally all right with that and making good strides towards a garden that the neighbors can stand to look at.  Not all the neighbors mind you, that's why we're getting a fence.

Due to some serious outside time there's been a lot of planning and thinking about projects... and not so much doing.  Let's just say there are plenty of lists floating around and I'm going to need to start scratching some of that stuff off.