Things I've Learned This Week

*  "Quick" lunches were a lot easier when it was warm enough to have yogurt smoothies on a regular basis.

*  Not everyone bakes a "stringy" spaghetti squash, which is probably good news if you don't have a pot of spaghetti sauce waiting for it.

*  Every time I think humans have reached an all-time-low, there's a "Reality TV" show just waiting to prove me wrong.

*  Asking people what his or her favorite books are is a great way to find some new authors. 

*  The idea of going out to get a truckload of manure for the garden was a much more sellable idea BEFORE we knew it would probably be fresh and steaming.

*  Petunias are a very determined flower.  I have petunias coming up now that I didn't even plant.  That's my kind of flower!

*  If you feel the need to make sweeping statements on Facebook about "all" of any group, I'm probably going to feel the need to "de-friend" you.  

*  It's hard not to feel a bit unloved when you don't even get "occupant" letters in the mail.  Not to mention a bit shocked.

*  It would be hard to say which I am most able to overestimate--the speed at which I can knit, or the speed at which I can read books.  Currently, I think I have enough on both my lists for the next 85 years......

*  For creatures that spend 15-20 hours a day napping, it's amazing how little sleep the cats seem to think I need. 

*  Just because it's a fall-flowering plant, apparently one shouldn't actually think their mum plant is going to have flowers in the fall. 

*  I don't know if it makes the neighbors feel better to see us out putting stuff on our lawn so it won't always look terrible, or if they wonder why our lawn looks like crap when we keep putting so much stuff on it.

*  I will never actually enjoy yardwork, but being outsmarted by the weeds every year does actually make it a bit of a "thrill-of-the-challenge" sort of thing.

*  I found some onion seeds which are supposed to be planted in the fall to produce some great onions the following season.  If I could remember where I put the seed packet, that would be even more exciting.