Changeling vs. Lemming

Not only am I undeniably a cat lady, since moving into this house, I have become the escaped-dog lady. A rott mix named Max jumps over his 10 ft, barbwire-topped fence and crosses the street to come see me. The other day, his owners weren't home, so I brought him inside like always. He immediately jumped on my bed and we watched a samurai flick. Today, while working outside, a blue heeler mix came over, made friends with me, and then took a nap in the freshly dug soil.

Yes, I was digging today. It may be cold out, but it was a perfect day for manual labor. You wouldn't think so, but in summer, you sweat and wince. In winter, you work harder, warm up slower, and still usually end up removing some of those layers.

Redoing the outside of this house is even more befuddling than the inside. So far, I have discovered an action figure screwed to a fence post, bottles in trees that require bamboo to break off the branch, a rim still attached to an axle, and in a bed near the side entry...well, I can't decide which is better, the plate, the hand spade, or installation CD for AOL 6.0.

(This is where I found AOL 6.0! I destroyed all that Wandering Jew, which is ironic because I researched Adolf Eichmann, The Ovitz family, Mengele, and the Nuremberg Defense earlier today. Yikes. What a creeper. Anyway, that stuff is so uncreative! I think daffodils or tulips would be perfect in there.)

So remember in the last post, I mentioned that I'm working on the side entry and my plan had to be redone because of an unexpected strip of concrete? Well, the plan is changing again. When I started digging for the pathways, I found that I could hardly break up the dirt. That's because there is about 1/4" humus, 1/4" topsoil, and beneath that, rocks. Rocks and rocks and some sand and some more rocks. Apparently some previous resident had the entire area covered in stones, making the driveway heinously long. Anyway, back to the drawing board, I go. How interesting it is that things are ever-changing.

(This is the side entry before we moved into the house. It already looks 100x better than this.)

Yesterday, Cat made spaghetti squash spaghetti with brussels sprouts "brusselballs". It was a kid's nightmare, but a delicious dream for my mouth. Fooood. Yesss!

School starts again on the 18th. I'll be taking World Geography, some English class, Environmental Hazards, and Location Analysis (Where and why or why not to build in a given location, I think.) Sounds fun, yeah?

I am going to kick 2011's butt.