Flower Show...

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Originally uploaded by lb_philly.

I'm looking at my Flickr pictures (I've uploaded almost 9,000, a sure sign of a lot of misspent time) and I ran across this one from last year.

My looking glass begonia doesn't look anything like this! Oh, the leaves have the same pattern, but it's not full and lush and certainly has never bloomed.

Perhaps there is a nice spot out back just waiting for me to find it and install one of these so that it will be glorious when I bring it in come fall.

In other news, I just looked out over the rooftops and saw an unspeakably scruffy black cat walking around. on top of the roof about four doors up. I wonder how he got up there...

Ticking off the ticky boxes

A good bit of today's over-ambitious to-do list actually got done.

• Incredible backlog of laundered-but-not-folded sheets and pillowcases folded and ready to be stashed
  
• Two loads of laundry washed, dried, and sorted
  
• Thanksgiving tablecloth and sixteen Thanksgiving napkins laundered
  
• Fifteen clear lightbulbs from two chandeliers unscrewed, wiped down, polished, and replaced (don't laugh! they were covered with ick)
  
• Dried up dead plants removed from window boxes and replaced with fresh mystery shrub, pansies, and feverfew
  
• Leaves raked from front sidewalk (Roy did this)
  
• Kitschy garlands of faux autumn leaves installed at strategic locations in dining room
  
• Trailing rosemary, in bloom, auditioned as Thanksgiving centerpiece. It will do!
  
• Incredible quantities of silverware polished
  
• Groceries and a Christmas present purchased at the Asian supermarket, including big tubs of green curry paste for cheap cheap cheap
  
• New-to-us chairs for dining room wiped down with damp rag and wobbly one glued (Roy did that)
  
• Refrigerator checked in a cursory way for biology experiments and other embarrassments

There is no hematoma at all on my right shin, just a big old bruise and some slight swelling. So the petits pois treatment appears to have worked.

I've frogged the entire little feather-and-fan lap robe I knat a few weeks ago. Being as I have *two* skeins of the cheap blue yarn, I can make a bigger lap robe with bigger needles so it has a slightly better drape. Not that Wal*Mart house brand yarn is ever going to have a particularly good drape.

Tomorrow starts the work-week again. I plan to work some extra hours tomorrow and Tuesday, then knock off a little earlier on Wednesday so that I can go into full maniacal Thanksgiving overdrive. Good thing I'm not baking...