Spring-ish

In the morning and again in the afternoon, I get dragged around past every pollen bearing tree in the neighborhood.
This is the culprit:

There are some beautiful flowers out there right now.

When we're not wandering around the neighborhood coating our sinuses with pollen, we're inside, watching cable TV. (Well, Crunch naps mostly.)

Man, have I watched a lot of TV recently. Okay, it's mostly been endless episodes of various incarnations of Law & Order and millions of hours of Sex & the City. There's been an Iron Chef America thrown in there from time to time, and I watched most of Steel Magnolias the other day, and I watched chunks of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? in the middle of the night. (That movie freaks me out. Can you imagine that movie being made today? I mean who could fill the shoes of Bette Davis or Joan Crawford? Meryl? Julia? Sandra? Gwyneth? Ha.)

What else has been going on? Well, not much really. The car spent a big hunk of the week at the mechanic because it didn't pass the emission test. Twice. And it still needs more work before it will pass. Ugh. Car stuff.

But look at the odometer of our little car:



Can you even see the odometer? It says 200002! Our little hoopty has 200,000+ miles on it. I think we'll get another 300 000 miles out of it at least--if it passes emissions.

And these are the first (non-volunteer) seedlings in our garden:



Radishes!