since high school, kaite got married to lee wallace, whom she met in a tattoo shop, lived in savannah for 2 years, and is now the overachieving worker bee glamour puss that you can read about today! she's also going into business for herself, yay kaite! 3/12/04
we went to a farm the other day and they had peacocks and chickens and turkeys and goats and llamas and alpacas and doves, and pigeons, and cats and a big white dog. and a goose. and the lady that ran the show gave us two fertile eggs from these chickens that look like fraggles. you know, from fraggle rock. so we made a little incubator out of a tiny aquarium with a heat lamp, a washcloth, and a little dish of water for humidity. we have a thermometer in it and we keep it at about 95 degrees. if all goes well, they should hatch in about 20 days.
the porch columns finally arrived, my shop is coming along...we have re-drywalled, tiled with black and white checkerboard old-skool lino squares, added beaded board wainscoting, new baseboards, and a chair rail. i'm supposed to paint the walls pink today, but it's rainy and kind of cold and we had to go to the accountant today and so i'm in a funk and don't know how much i'll actually get done. piffle.
after last halloween, i threw 3 pumpkings out into the yard on the side of the house and yesterday we counted about 3000 pumpkin plant sprouts. we transplanted some of them to our neighbors yard. mayhaps this will be the first year ever that i actually succeed at growing and harvesting pumpkins. we have also planted tomatoes, okra, yellow squash, cucumbers, sugar snap peas, and gourds. lee really did all the work and he is actually quite dilligent about watering them. we might actually have a bounty of vegetables this summer. i planted some strawberries, but i don't know if they'll grow. you know, sometimes, you can plant something and you just feel like it might not work out...unfortunately something made me feel iffy about the strawberries. but we water them daily reguardless. lee has also planted morning glories around the mailbox and near the fence at the end of the drive. he planted lots of other flowers around the yard, too, and everything is coming up very quickly. i planted gladiolas and dalias and day lilies in the front bed around the gardenia hedge and around the iris that are currently blooming in profusion around the bases of the crepe myrtle trees at the front of the walk.
we miss the deep south somewhat terribly, so in an absurd effort to comfort ourselves, every sunday we go to an undisclosed location and harvest spanish moss and return with it to our house where we proceed to hang it in all the trees. we have a big extendable pole that we use and sometimes lee gets on the roof and hangs it on the pecan tree right outside the front dormer window so that i can see it swaying in the breeze every morning when i wake up.
the neighbor beind us has 2 baby goats that she is babysitting for her son. they are incredibly adorable and they bounce around like puppies and try to sit in your lap and lick your hands. we live in a fantastic neighborhood.
