Things I Am TRYING To Learn This Week

*  throwing a cat toy is not on the "approved list of activities" for resting an arm

*  the bigger issue is to remember that I really LIKE cilantro, and not to be irritated that it is coming up everywhere in the garden this year after refusing to grow at all last year

*  I need to stop feeling proud of myself for being able to grow snow peas.  The real trick, it seems, is to STOP them from growing on every available inch of the garden....and in the lawn....and in the flower beds....

*  no matter how loudly our new neighbors need to rev their car engines, it does not necessarily mean that certain parts of their anatomy are "dimensionally-challenged."

*  a cat might not understand that Daylight Savings Time only happens once a year, and that to just randomly shift wake-up time an hour ahead every few weeks might seem like an acceptable idea to the cat

*  you'll never know a truer measure of a person than when you see how they treat you when you have different fundamental beliefs than he or she does