Good Things

No posts in February... such a shame. I have been observing good things and thought I'd share some of them.
1) A grown woman in a strawberry hat. Yes, with seeds and all observed this morning as I walked across campus.
2) A lovely spa day at Buttermilk Falls Inn. Thanks for spending a relaxing day with me, Beth. It was great to catch up!
3) A newly painted dining room. Good bye mint green, hello bark brown. It looked a bit like mint chocolate chip in process. And thank you for low/no VOC paints for allowing us to do this in the dead of winter!
4) Longer days! Yipee! Although Brrrr to today.
5) Good Mexican food... hard to find east of the Mississippi River.

Good Things

I have several posts in the works (or at least the ideas are in my head). But I wanted to post some of my recent photos of good things going on around here...

at the beach (look at the blue sky!)

early tomato blossoms

Mr. Plant blooms (maybe it's Mrs. Plant?)
This is one of Grum's plants and it's the first time it's bloomed for me. It's a begonia of some sort. It loves the light from the window, all of the leaves face that way and see how close the blooms are to the window. The wax plant also did amazingly well this year as I had over 10 pods of blooms this year!

a lovely bouquet (what do you this of this rustic herb bouquet?)

Wicked Cool

I just hooked up my new wireless printer and tried it out. It's awesome. I can now print from anywhere in my house. How cool is that. Now if only I had a pool boy to bring me my print outs, I'd be all set. Do you think I could train a dog to do it??

Two household cleaning tips...

So I have two crazy household cleaning tips that I just recently figured out. In my current place, the walls were not all freshly painted before I moved in. There were several scuffs and annoying marks on some of the walls, including what looked like a soda had exploded on walls in the kitchen above the counters. Turns out, using a magic eraser on the walls worked wonders! All the marks are gone! Amazing!

My other tip has to do with the annoying mildew that gathers around the tub that you use as a shower, too. This mildew seems to shows up no matter how much you clean. Clorox is now selling a bleach pen. It is great for getting stains out of white shirts (which is why I originally purchased it). But turns out, if you put it on dry grout and wash it off about 12 hours later, everything is sparkling white! And seems to stay that way. I don't guarantee this yet (so if you own your house, think twice before you use this yet). The great part is that it doesn't stink like bleach and you can leave it on for quite a while. I'm not sure of the environmental impact of this product, but it's just bleach, I think.

It's a good thing...

I recently purchased a set of bamboo/cotton sheets from Target. They are in a lovely greenish blue color. They are very soft and seem to wash well, so far.