Spring is here

The boys and I got our Wednesday chores done and then went to the beach and made s'mores with vegetarian marshmallows. I'm regretting the two I ate, but otherwise the day was spectacularly lovely. The neighborhood is still in a uniquely law-abiding mode. Totally Awesome 11YO is now Totally Awesome 12YO. Spike and Buffy are apparently together again for the first time. On the down side, two of our three incomes decided to go on vacation at the same time. To keep us company while they were gone they left an unexpected $3K tax bill and the discovery that a pricey king-size futon was needed stat as an unreported spill by one of the kids had quietly turned the current one into a biohazard. I have never tracked a package as closely as my new futon. Until it arrived we slept on an air mattress that needed to be re-inflated every evening and tended to find ourselves almost on the slats by morning.

I should see the earliest dahlia goodness arrive by the end of this month!! Good thing I had long since made all my dahlia orders as we are in super frugal mode for the duration. I even bought the kitties' Feline Leukemia vacs down at the feed store so we could do them ourselves this year. I haven't done that since we first moved out on our own.