Snowy: You've Got Male!

I know posts have been few and far between and I offer no excuses.
Lo siento, amigos! Life has been.. umm, interesting......
Regardless....

And I wonder as I wander.... wherefore art thou Snowy?
Are you safe and warm?.
There has been a development here on the home front since you left us. A mysterious package arrived in the mail a week or so ago.
It was addressed to Snowie Rittel and came all the way from Russia!
The note is a little small so I will write it out here.
Be sure to read it in a Russian accent to get the full effect:

Please, I introduce me to Snowie, wish to be husband. Snowie say she lonely & unhappy & she is mean. I am here love to please. My name is Peter Klawski,
Thank you

That is right, Snowy has a Russian Mail Order Bride.. I mean husband waiting for her at home.
And she doesn't even know!

Peter is much younger and smaller than Snowy but otherwise has the exact same body shape and lack of appendages.
I know that Snowy won't mind the age difference, after all she is a bit of a Cougar!

(I totally crack myself up!)

PS: You may be thinking that I made this up, but I most certainly did not.
It is heartening to see how some of you actually enter into the Twilight Zone which is my imagination, and play along.

Bad Landscaping Karma

I know you have been on pins and needles wondering what happened to me when I abandoned my family to the landscaping........
Here we go.......
I went in the house to do my Spanish Homework. Which was a responsible thing to do. Unfortunately the internet wasn't working. I tried my technical magic on the flashy light thingie (ie: unplugging it and seeing if that fixed it) but it didn't work.
Since I couldn't do my homework I decided to fix the closet pole in my bedroom. My little closet was fitted by the previous owners with one of those cool closet organizer systems. I hate it. I don't have room for clothes. Not enough anyhow and the pole regularly falls down and dumps everything. So while we were at Lowes I bought a new pole holer thing. For anyone else, this may have been fine. But not me.
I am a very intelligent person. I am skilled at many things. I am not, however, particularly handy around the house. I use a hot glue gun for most of my fix-it projects. And I ignore a lot of things that are wrong. I can't figure out the thermostat and I am pretty sure that if my life depended on re-programming the sprinkler system I would be seeing Jesus face to face pretty quick. But this time I had a clear idea of what needed to be done and how to do it. So I got out my electric drill (oooooo-aaaahhhhh) and proceeded to not only fail to screw the dang thing in but also to dump the entire contents of the shelf on my face. This included many heavy items as well as several framed pictures with glass that broke on my bedroom floor. Something hit me in the head causing this horrible injury which even included real blood. (oooooo-aaaahhhhh)
So, I just up and walked away from that before I said bad words.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, a war has been brewing.
On one side we have 6 cats.
On the other..... Mus musculus......... Latin for the common house mouse.
Ah, but this mouse is hardly common... nay, this is an un-common mouse.
A mouse that I cannot help but admire for his bravado...... No mere common mouse would have the chutzpah to live in a house full of cats. This is a Mighty Mouse................ and oh, how the Mighty has now fallen.......
Because, though I admired this foe, I also was disgusted by his leavings. And so my brave sister bought some mouse traps and learned how to set them and placed the trap under the sink where mousie had turned into his own personal latrine. SNAP! It didn't take long. Brave he may have been but smart... not so much...
My daughter declared that we are as bad as Shamu for taking the life of this vermin....
And so, after carefully documenting the scene for your viewing pleasure, it fell upon me to dispose of the carcass. And so I did.
Adieu brave Mighty Mouse.... RIP
PS: a day later and no new rodent death. Can it be that there was truly only one of the little boogers? Stay Tuned!

Landscaping: The Adventure Continues

Now that the sod has been laid it is time for the expert Landscaping Duo otherwise known as the Rittel Sisters, to get into gear.

Our adventure began at the local Lowes Home Improvement Center where we found many many things that would improve our home but focused on interesting things to do with our yard.

These are the items we selected to start. We got 3 Peter Pan Daylilies (which is about 4 short of what we need) some marigolds, some petunias, some little purple thingies, 2 bushy things and some brick dealios to put around our tree.

I know this is kind of mean, but I told Monica I wanted to take a picture of her with her Suburban but what I really wanted to show you is how consistently bad our parking jobs are. Both of us, not just her. But luckily for me she doesn't document my life the way I document hers. At first I thought she had tried to park in a space that had a planter at the end or something, but no... she had just failed to pull in all the way. Hence we see the enormous suburban butt hanging out into the parking lot.

Anyhow............

We unloaded the plants and got down to work. We put the brick dealios around the tree which worked fairly well except there is this dang huge ROOT in the way. We haven't figured out what to do about that yet. Becca and her friend were there to help. Thank goodness because every time I leaned down I got dizzy (I wonder if it is time to have my blood pressure issues addressed again). So they took over the planting stuff. This was devastating to me because gardening is.. well... how can even express in mere words the glory, the grandeur of dirty hands. How at one with nature one feels? How Mother Earth-ish??? Seriously it was fine by me. I had Spanish homework to do and other Really Important Things to do in the house that did not involve getting dirt on my hands. More on those activities another day because I believe my lack of Mother Earth Karma caught up to me big time.

Becca found a worm which she was kind enough to share on camera. One might notice the conspicuous absence of another family member. I believe she was napping.... Shocker there, eh? I feel a great need to apologize in advance to this poor little bush who was unlucky enough to be picked to go in our side yard. I will, mostly likely, manage to kill it in the near future. Yes, it looks all green and happy now but before long my plant killing powers will come into play. Please send happy plant thriving thoughts to our yard.

It needs all the help it can get.

An Email From SNOWY!!

It is a Snowy Email. I don't know where she is. Seriously! She is off on her adventure!!
But at least she is keeping in touch. Hopefully she will send pictures soon!


dEar Monica;

I Have been cooped up for soooooo long, I have decided to go sailing.

Actually, I HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED. By PIRates. MY balance is OFF and I AM wobbly due to the condition of my Tail.
I WILL CONTACT you again when THEY LET ME.
I AM ENJOYING THE FRESH AIR. finally.

SNOWy

Wordless Wednesday

Corner of Avenue 'I' and 20th street west. 8:00am Saturday April 3rd.
I did not touch up this picture.

Easter Earthquake Damage

Supposedly there wasn't a lot of physical damage done by that earthquake on Easter Sunday but I believe that is only because a proper survey was not done in Bunny Land.
My personal inspection showed a great deal of damage to the Peep lined crater. Upon closer look you can see a rather deep cravasse has opened up into which many, many Peep Eggs have fallen.
It is a sad, sad day in Bunny Land!

Snowy????

Snowy?
Are you out there?
Are you doing okay?
Aunt LeAnn is very worried about you!
Please write home soon!