Thursday.....?Already?

 Here is the prize lace yarn.  Blue blue blue.  Almost periwinkle blue.  China blue.  Danish Blue.

So it is already Thursday.  This means Puddy and Babka had their surgeries this morning.  They will stay here the weekend, and then they will be back at Heartland Animal Shelter awaiting their forever homes.

I'll miss their cute faces.  But guess what?  Helo, Al's beautiful cat is coming to stay with us for at least a few months.   He doesn't need the stress of moving to Virginia Beach with Al.  Beatles needs a buddy.  Rosalyn has been a trooper.  She is tired of Beatles  tackling her though. Her old bones need a rest.
Helo will take a while to fit in; cats just take a little time.  I am so excited for him to live here.  He has the most amazing eyes.  He is part Siamese/part something else...probably grey tabby.  He needs to lose some weight, so playing with Bea will be perfect.  Helo is only 2.   Bea is now 1.

Fireman and I want to get to the Lake Michigan Beach soon. I drove by and snapped a picture the other day.   The water stays very cold until about August.  We want to take the kayaks out.   Hopefully within a week we can do this.

Here is short list of things I WONT do this summer:

Go to any indoor concert.  I simply cannot do this when we have nice weather.  We have so many months of awful grey cold weather here in Chicago, I have to stay out in the summer.  -

Buy ice cream from a truck.  I have so many good ice cream choices around me.  I live a block from a soft serve ice cream stand,  3 blocks from Oberweiss Dairy and a mile from a Ben and Jerry's.  You cannot beat Ben and Jerry's if you ask me-

Wear a bikini. -

Plant tomatoes.  Taking this year off.  My watering to harvesting ratio was much too low last year to warrant them this year.  I can  go to the farmers market on any Saturday from July 1 on and get great tomatoes.  ( I will be happy to take any of yours) -

Have a garage sale.  Most of my stuff is FROM garage sales.....and I tend to bring one thing into my house and get rid of one thing at the same time. it keeps the STUFF down. :)

Use a spray tan/seek a tan out.  I'm too old for tanning.  The spray stuff must cause cancer or three heads or something.  I LOVE to look tan.  Alas, it is winter here more than anything else and my winter skin will look much better if I don't' tan.

and lastly,

I won't stop planting because spring is over.  I must keep the garden interest up.  I always plant mums in August, but I need to plant something  now in July....any ideas?