first of all - an addendum to the Ribfest post. while we were waiting in line for our second sampling of ribs, matt spied one Dustin Diamond the erstwhile Screech from Saved by the Bell. last seen as the big problem child on TWO seasons of celebrity fit club, (we don't watch it, we watch the soup) he was bearded and a bit tubby and had an entourage of two moderately attractive girls and a big black guy (bodyguard? surely not) Sorry that there's not a picture, but it did happen....you can ask matt.

the biggest story around here is the cats (as usual) some of you may know that even before we moved Rose had a bit of a behavior problem, well the move or just the constant hissing has sent lily over the edge and she has started to retaliate, which is pretty awful, but we're hoping that the current tension can't last forever. Rose has taken refuge here


what she calls "the canopy" we have 10 foot ceilings so I can see why this would be a neat place for a cat to be. This has also been a battleground on a couple of these power struggles. Let me tell you, there's nothing more terrifying than a cat fight 5 feet above your head. you're powerless.

I took a really really really long walk yesterday. we've been trying to take walks each day since we can, but on the map the Borders store looked much closer. I wasn't wearing proper shoes and by the time I got there my feet were killin' so I sat for a spell and drank a blended iced vanilla coffee and promptly made the decision to take the bus home. What had been about a 40 minute walk was a 5 minute bus ride and i got home to discover this!


It's slightly obscured, but that, my friends, is a blister that is 1" in diameter and about an 1/8" deep full of yucky goo. ow.

and at our back door, we have this problem..


a big water puddle. we're apparently on the low end of our porch so all the water under the wood flows to our door step. it's about a half inch deep and the door clearance is about 2 inches so i think we're going to get a paver stone or something so we don't have to jump over it every time we leave the back door.

matt had his first second city writing class last night and feels good about it. there are eight people in the class and he thinks he's either the oldest or nearly so. there are three kids from a university in Arizona here for the summer. what a great thing to do for some summer credit. So a new chapter of his career has started and I'm excited to see where it goes!