Ketchup, er, CATCH up

Okay, moving on to this week!  Sunday started off with a trip to the flea.  I love the flea market for so many reasons.  Great bargains, horribly over priced junk, and such a colorful crowd.  This week we came home with a few large jars, spoons, and a great deal of produce.  We also shared a fresh squeezed fruit drink from a gentleman who's sign proclaimed IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER!  I have to admit it's a pretty fantastic sales pitch, definitely what lured me in for a sip.  I won't say my life has changed, but it was a very refreshing beverage for sure.  There were a few items that I rather regret not purchasing: a multitude of VHS tapes, several crusty aquariums, and a hamster ball sans lid.  After the flea we did some work out in the yard.  Shawn dug up a new flower bed for me and pulled up all the bricks out front to use for edger.  I planted the columbine, irises, and a few lilies in the new flower bed, got two rows of onions in the garden, and cleaned up the little flower bed under the tree out back.

 

It's only exciting because everything you see there are plants that returned from last year, and they were all wildflower seeds I had sort of tossed outside.  Bit of a surprise, though, two of the plants are catnip!  Forrest and Roxxy will be delighted.  Julie stopped by in the afternoon and we crafted a few cards for Operation Write Home.  They are a wonderful organization that sends thousands of cards to the men and women deployed all over the world, please take a minute to check out OWH.  Halfway into our card making, Shawn discovered the internet was not functioning.  I did all the troubleshooting in the world, then we checked the TV, and discovered it was out.  It seems as though in creating a new flower bed we snipped the cable!  Shawn replaced the damage section of cable but the web never did return so I had to call Comcast for a tech.  Monday a nice young man from Comcast came out and restored the web - hooray!  The cable Shawn had installed was just old, so he replaced that and we were back online.  Tuesday turned out to be my lucky day, I ripped my foot open on a floor vent in the living room, burned my thumb on a steamer bag, and dipped the tip of my index finger in hot vegetable oil.  No need to relive any of that nonsense.