Hooray, good weather!

I'm so relieved the weather is relatively back to warm and sunny. Cold and dreary doesn't work for me since I can't garden in it. Today I intend to get back outside because I have three green zebra tomato plants to get in, plus two large interesting flower things from the fuchsia family, and six nasturtiums. The planting will be prefaced by the official 'Cleaning of the Dog Poo', because I share the back yard with the dogs of insanity. I should probably note that they don't poo IN the garden, but in the part of yard which is near it. The garden is fenced in. This is just as much to prevent pooing as it is to prevent Scout from eating all my berries and veggies. I swear, that dog would be a vegetarian with no problem whatsoever. She loves plants.
While we're on the subject of warm weather, I've got a few words regarding flip flops. I love this totally unfussy footwear because it is easy to put on in a hurry and doesn't squish my feet...BUT...
Why all of a sudden have flip flops become high price items? I mean...we're talking about TWO PIECE, mostly plastic footwear. Granted, there are some pretty cute flops out there, and I do enjoy things that are cute...but are they really upwards of $20.00 cute? I got two pair yesterday and they were on sale 60% off...one pair for $10.00 and the other for $7.00. Personally I think this is nuts, but my last pair died at the yardsale two weeks ago and desperate times call for desperate measures. Plus I could not find cheaper ones anywhere. The current flip flop price trend reminds me of the chapter in Bridget Jones where she discusses how scarves used to be five dollar items and suddenly skyrocketed in price until they reached hundreds. Now I feel like I need to be careful with my flip flops and not get them dirty because they cost as much as actual shoes. This is dumb, because for me, one of the points of flip flops is that you can treat them as if they are disposable and not worry if they start to look yucky. Hmph.
Mmmm, Pandora Radio you make almost everything ok. Even my flip flop anger is starting to dissipate under the influence of the Be Good Tanyas.
Last night, during the great flip flops excursion, we took Little Guy to Hometown Diner for dinner. A very sad thing happened there. We found out that they no longer made fried chicken. Now, Hometown Diner made the BEST fried chicken and this is just...intolerable. It was always my thing when we went there. I had to order a burger instead and it just wasn't the same. T.G. got the farmhouse chicken, which is what he always orders, and I ended up feeling all sad and deflated because he got his favorite and I was stuck with a second choice moo cow sandwich. Pft. T. G. gave Little Guy some of his chicken and Little Guy liked it so much that he began saying "Mmmmmm, NUM NUM NUM!" and frantically signing "More, More, More!" This almost made up for my lack of fried chicken, but the problem is that I'm still craving it and will continue to crave it until I get some. A really funny thing did happen though. The hostess, a young girl who clearly doesn't have kids of her own, tried to give Little Guy crayons and a placemat to color. It was very sweet of her but we had to explain that while our 11 month old would enjoy both crayons and placemat, he would most likely eat them in short order.
Now Pandora is playing Lucy Wainwright Loche covering Everywhere and I'm in folky guitar heaven. YAY!
Holy crap, they followed it up with Cat Power. This is just a good day. I have this sudden urge to rush for a cassette tape and slap on record like I used to do with radio stations when I was 12. I remember when oldies 99 was Q100. Sigh.
Later today I'm meeting with the Chrizzlelicious and we are going to discuss birthday cup cakery and check out her gallery show. And then we're going to the Heavenly Hedgehog to eat ice-cream. Yum! If the Foo Foo shop is open I'm going to get a rubber duck for Little Guy's birthday. He has three now...but um...ok...I'm a little obsessed with cute rubber ducks and um...everyone should have variety.
Whoosh! I'm off to shower so my day can officially start. Wheeeeeeeee!