San Marino does it again!

 This time it is a silver medal in mixed team trap shooting.

Congratulations to Alessandra Perilli and Gian Marco Berti!

Fun Olympic fact

 San Marino’s Alessandra Perilli won a bronze medal in trap shooting. This was the first time San Marino (Population 33,860) had won a medal at the Olympics.

San Marino is now the smallest country to win an Olympic medal.

GO SAN MARINO!!!

Oh, and Happy 133rd Birthday

 Grandma Gertrude 

(I wish you were here to celebrate! 

(And I wish I could find a picture!)

News Alert!!! News Alert!

 

Doomsday Comet!

On this date in 1862, the Swift-Tuttle Comet was discovered by Louis Swift. Horace Tuttle saw it three days later.

It has a 1 in 10,000 chance of colliding with Earth in 2026.

I don’t know about you, but I am canceling my summer 2027 vacation!

Stay tuned for further updates!

It’s National Macaroni and Cheese Day!

 Let there be dancing in the streets! Party like it is 1999!!!

(No vestal virgins required… good thing. They have gotten to be prohibitively expensive!)

Eat well, my friends.

Relationship update

Not that kind of relationship you fool. It’s more that Billie Jean is starting to kind of act like maybe there are times when she is not figuring out how to kill me and still get fed.

BJ often guards the bathroom door while I am in there. Lord only knows what horrible ogre might attack me without her being a sentinel. I feel so safe.

This morning I heard Billie Jean in the bathroom, using her litter box. Trust me, she can smell up the room and the hallway like, well. You know. I chose to not go too close for a time. I finally came out of my room and there was a big cat, taking her best St. Bernard pose and asking, “You won’t protect me because?”

I stood there in surprise while she berated me and said horrible things about my ancestry. It was an unpleasant conversation.

I walked past her to go to the kitchen. She swatted at me as I passed.

There were no claws out.

Is that love, or what?

Sorry for the brief hiatus

 

But it was spring planting time at the new homestead.

I hear you. It was truly summer. But early summer and I’ve never been a big fan of reality. And I live in a home with an atrium, so I am better than you!

It started with transplanting two azaleas and a lavender plant. Lavender died due to a botched transplant, but she has been replaced by Lavande. Lavande is French Lavender and she looks very happy. The two azaleas were transplanted to a new box I purchased just for them. They were unhappy in the atrium due to lack of sunlight, but now the are content and being azaleaish!

Then I planted:

                5 hostas (4 are up)

                2 astilbes (1 is up)

                3 Begonias (2 are up)

                6 Caladium (0 are up)

                3 Irises (0 are up)

                6 Gladioli (0 are up)

                1 Black Eyed Susan (0 are up)

 

Every day I am excited to see what more has sprouted!

 Oh, and if Karla says I am crazy, she means it in the nicest way possible!

 I was going to add pictures, but my phone and my computer had an argument, so have to wait until cooler heads prevail.

A neighbor sent me a text

Okay. That isn’t a big shocker. Mary sends out texts frequently with newsy items. What I liked about this text was that she referred to the entry way to the condo as an atrium.

Totally awesome!

I’ve never lived in a home with an atrium. It sounds so snotty. I have to find have to find me some really high-class friends now that I have an atrium.

I am so cool!