He's decided we should spend more time outside than we do, but it's not really comfortable out there.
We only had a couple of stained chairs and the ginormous grill Stan bought a while ago.
Ya can't sit or lounge on a grill.

A couple of days ago, Stan went grocery shopping and also came home with patio furniture. He's always surprising me.
It's not expensive stuff, but it looks a lot better than the junk we had before.

So anyway...........

I took the storm window out of the storm door today but my arthritic hands won't let me change it over to the screen door. The cats were intrigued with the open door.
I went out onto the front porch with a drink and sat to watch the neighborhood.
Foxy ran away, but Lady meowed loudly and stepped out on the porch with me.
She had a great time exploring the out of doors.

I was sitting here watching a late show of a very B or C horror movie and suddenly got the urge for a slice of pizza.
Since I'm in my robe and ready for bed, but jonesing for some pizza, I looked around and realized that my cat Lady was wide awake.
We've just recently found out that any drivers we give permission to drive our cars are covered with our insurance.
So reassuring Lady, I asked that she take the car and go get me a slice of pizza.

She just stared at me.
I assured her I was serious and told where the car keys were.
She just stared at me.
I told her where the money was in the car and she was welcome to it to help pay for any snack she might like also.
She just stared at me, so I started to get sore........

"What the heck is wrong with you?!! I feed you and your sister every single day, give you guys clean water, scoop your poopy litter box and this is how you repay me?!!!!"

She mewed a tiny mew and then stared at me again.


I guess I'm not getting a slice of pizza, unless my middle sister Cynner would like to bring me some........

Happy happy birthday to my middle sister Cynners!

We're being inundated with miniature ants. At least that's what they look like.
Stan just found a huge colony of these little guys under and around our dining area TV.
He's out to buy some ant spry to kill these little guys.

Then when the killing mist settles, we're going to dine on steak/white mushrooms/onions/and a buttery baked potato.

I'm hungry.

I've been thinking about you people for a bit now, but really haven't had anything to say.
What I should've been doing was reading you guys and commenting, but.........ya know.....things get away from ya.

We had the guy who's the "fixer upper" director around here and found out that our building is going to be completely re-sided because this building has the most outside water damage.

Wait.

That's sort of a good/bad scenario, isn't it.

Then we noticed there's a bunch of big machinery down on the freeway from our home, pulling out bushes and trees almost to the top of the hill we live on.
I was a little freaked, until Stan said that maybe they're going to put in a sound damping wall along this 45 south bound corridor.
Wheeeeeee!!!!
I sure hope Stan's right and I'm going to go check it out on the internet.
Frankly, Stan and I don't notice the traffic noise until we have guests and we try to do things outside with them. Our guests are
put off by the highway noise.
(they would make bad truck drivers)

Stan decided it was time to plant a garden in our little 2ftX8ft plot along our patio, so he went out and got flowers, green peppers and a tomato plant.
The problem I see, is there's absolutely no sun that hits that little plot of earth. Stan will learn.

I'm off to check on you guys.

After cleaning during the day, I knit and do other junk that's soothing.

I've been really crabby lately and I'm so glad that Stan can take off onto the road and escape me for a couple of days at a time.
We quit smoking February 14th 1999, but I kept sneaking a smoke here and there, then I finally just quit sneaking cigarettes about 4 years ago, but kept chewing nicotine gum.
The gum's really really expensive, so I decided to quit that too.

I'm crabby.
But I'm really kinda proud that I've finally stopped the nicotine after all of these years.
This too will pass.

I'll go back to my knitting now.

The husband decided that since he always seems to have Mondays off, that he's going to feed Lady FISHY!
That's tuna to us, but to her it's FISHY!
Fox doesn't like people food, so it's a special thing between Stan and Lady.

She's now starting to get all jiggy on Mondays and goes totally insane when he wakes up on Monday morning, but he makes her wait until evening.
This means she's going to be his talkative shadow all day.
He loves it.

She's also been a talkative kitty her whole life, but Stan thinks he's teaching her to meow on purpose. *grin*
I let him think that.

Yesterday, Stan went to see his oncologist and his radiologist and they gave him the news that it appears his cancer's in remission!!!!!
They're going to keep an eye on him for quite a while, but he's good to go so far.
His PSA number was the hoped for 0.
We're both so relieved.

Since Mondays are Stan's only day off, we decided to take in a movie and went to see The Witch. I'm here to tell all of you not to even bother with this movie.
The acting was excellent, but it was looooong and boring.
When I saw the trailer to this movie I thought it was going to be a lot better than it turned out to be.

Then we came home and Stan made up a couple of steaks and baked potatoes.
I have left over steak for breakfast later on.
Yum.

I met up with a friend of mine yesterday. We haven't seen each other for a while and I was gobsmacked that her little daughter had just graduated the police academy and is now a full Milwaukee cop.
Her husband's a Milwaukee cop and I guess her daughter wanted to do what her dad was doing, but I'm still surprised that this short-fine boned-tiny tiny girl is a cop.
When I said that, her brother looked at me and said that I shouldn't test that because she'd have me on my back in two seconds.
I laughed, but I don't doubt it.
When do these kids grow up faster than we can imagine?