yaaaaaaawn.

I have few new pics, but my Fan has urged me to post more, so here's an update.
After tearing the drywall out of the girl's room, Mr. Legs rewired it:



And then my lovely family helped us put up the insulation that apparently no one else saw the need for in 30+ years of occupation:



And then nailed up the drywall for us. A nice clean slate that I neglected to take any pictures of. It looked pretty rough at first, but the taping is all done and we're now putting up the skim coat of mud, and it's looking beautiful. I'll try to get some pictures of that up tomorrow. I can hardly wait to paint. If everything dries satisfactorily by Friday, we may get to paint this weekend!
I'm halfway through The Fortune of War on audiobook, which makes the mindless scrape-scrape-scraping go very quickly.

I turned out a really attractive(I thought) collar for the pit bull group's big get together, but the person in charge never got back to me about it so I moped around and decided not to go. That'll teach my face!

Mr. legs & I watched Be Kind Rewind, which was pretty funny in spots and was a little less insipid and Jack Blackish then I feared it would be. Still watching Dr. Who, maybe just because I want to hear the English accents. DD #1 is learning consonant digraphs, DS #1 I still on the letter P, DD #2 is learning her letters and their sounds and DD #3 is perfecting the art of Irritating Mommy Like a Gangrenous Tooth.

Our garden's growing well (pics tomorrow), and I've aquired a very attractive, ruffly kind of purple Basil. it reminds me of a dream I had awhile ago, the most memorable part of which involved using purple basil for currency. I also have a lucky bamboo stalk in a vase of water, and took it upon myself to replace our goldfish. I took the tank out of the kid's room and found a really pretty white, fan-tailed goldfish. After explaining to the kids why it was bad for them to be constantly reaching in and grabbing the fish, we decided to name her Rapunzel, and got her a little pink fishy castle.

DD #2 asked what "der flappy tings around her necks are", and we had a pretty informative discussion about gills, mucus membranes, lungs, oxygen and the molecular composition of water, of all things. Most of it was ripped right off a government website about fisheries (Minnesota or somewhere, I think) and I didn't think she'd retain any of it, but she surprised me by talking with me about the things we'd learned a couple of days later. Maybe she'll grow up to be a...gillologist. That's got a lot of syllables so it must be pretty high-paying.

Swiper's doing as well as he can...Mr. Legs has taken a sudden irrational turn against him, so he tries to be as underneath me as he can be. Maybe not totally irrational, since he nipped DD #1 a few days ago. We've been working on it though, and I'm keeping a sharp eye on him. I've started kenneling him during meals & school time, because he seems to think he should be involved in both and trying to push his big feet off of a school book is nearly impossible.

He almost got his feet on DS #1's Purple Pointilism Pansy, which would have been disastrous for the picture and for the floor. DS was very proud of the word 'pointilism' and I have high hopes he'll use it without any prompting in front of the grandparents; I'm sure that would please & impress them.

Looking back at this I see I had more to post than I originally thought. Yay me!