This and That---
I got a piece of bead board to block off our living room from our dogs---to keep them from rushing the door when the doorbell rings and from furring the furniture when they lounge on it. So now we have scraped off paint from replacing the board and little digs in the paint and the wall from the board falling down. Now when someone comes to the door I just have to hurry and talk with them before the dogs knock down the board. Oh well, at least the board gives me a fighting chance to make it to the door before the dogs---the furniture is relatively free of dog hair and my window sheers are not getting snagged anymore--With dogs there are a lot of compromises made--- mostly on the part of the owner.
As part of our 4th of July barbecue I picked up some giant marshmallows. They are about 3 times the size of regular marshmallows and really fluffy. They called to me in the store. One marshmallow makes 2 very gooey smores (it could actually make 4). It has 90 calories and no fat---no nutritional value to speak of but a reasonable indulgence---until you put it with graham crackers and a chocolate bar of course. They already make giant chocolate bars so now all we need is giant graham crackers and we could have a major dietary splurge. Actually they need to come out with micro mini marshmallows and bite size graham cracker squares then I could put one teeny marshmallow and one chocolate chip in between two wee graham crackers and have a doll size smore that just maybe my middle age metabolism could burn off before it joined the fat convention around my middle.
Well my daughter and I are off to IKEA the store purposely designed like a maze so that you will find things to buy in order to take your mind off of your fear of never finding your way out. At least it is good exercise. Maybe I can walk off those giant marshmallows.
One more thought about gardens---I have been pulling up some pesky unidentified weedy looking plants that have been growing like crazy in one of my flower gardens. I finally realized yesterday that they might be starts of a plant that I planted in the garden. The early beginnings look different than the more mature plant. I am going to let them go for awhile and see what happens...The fact that plants can look a little 'weedy' or unruly for a time at first before turning into something nicer means there is hope for plants and people too!
I think my post holiday hot summer laziness has settled in. I just want to read and eat marshmallows. I need to do something more energetic and productive than racing my dogs to the front door and wandering IKEA...
