*hiss*

How do you keep the neighborhood cats from coming to your garden to do their business? I'm starting to fill up the empty spots with flowers, but budget demands that I do it piecemeal, plus many flowers expand so I don't want to plant them too close to each other. Just irritating to find all this cat poop in with your flowers. Can't be good for them. It seems that the far end is where they go more often and those flowers have a harder time of it than the closer ones. Last year that was the pattern anyway.

My blister hasn't healed up from Wednesday yet, so I disappointed my dog and did not take him for a walk this morning. Hopefully tomorrow will be better for that.

Strangers in Paradise is on the last 9 issues. *wails* My sister has a number of trade paperbacks and we have the rest of the issues as singles, but I wanted it to be the never-ending story because it's so fabulous and heartbreaking and real. Alas, not to be.

I'm not sure I like the DC 1 Year Later thing. Is this a total reset or just a few issues type of reset? Eh. We'll see, but two issues into it I'm not that fond of the concept.

Update before crashing

The raised bed garden box has been constructed. It is quite beautiful - redwood and all. Smells nice right now, too! Family is wonderful. Mom and I discovered that while garbage cans are great for hauling soil, it's much too heavy when full. So we had three cans half-full of soil...and the box isn't half full. So, probably two more trips are necessary. Oh, good lord. Will do one tomorrow, and the other...well, we'll see. Picked up some bird netting so the cats should stay away from all that lovely dirt. Plus, it will keep the birds away from the veggies once they've started growing.

Got TCBY peanut butter shakes for a treat for Papa for helping with the box. They're an old favorite that we haven't gotten in ages. So, that was a wonderful end of day treat.

Oh! On the way back out to the ranch, I saw a red shouldered blackbird! OMG, so cool! I've seen them in Michigan before and knew they were in the area, but never have I seen one here. Craziest thing - there's one small patch of cat tails in a sheep pasture, and he was balancing on them singing his little heart out or something. The little red patches were even standing up. SO cool!

( strange lj meme )