good ol selfish wants

I Want...

1. a pet Giant African Millipede
2. a thunder shower
3. to swim in a (clean) lake
4. to finger paint
5. to get a ukulele

Skinny Legs and All

Just finished reading Skinny Legs And All by Tom Robbins and it is up there on my favorite books list... up there with Island by Aldous Huxley and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. I like my novels to be spiritual yet playful. Skinny Legs being especially playful. Now that I've read my first Robbins novel and been introduced to his playful use of language and metaphor I plan on reading many more of his works.

Wasting Time With Yard Waste Bags

My lovely assistant Kate and I. Kate by the way is one of my aforementioned great new roommates...or should I say was, because she is sadly moving out tomorrow.

The intricate process of bag camouflage.

any passer by would be fooled into thinking I were merely a rather highly stacked pile of yard detritus.

This would be quite a dangerous assumption for they would face the wet leafy wrath of detritus man. Once a mild mannered raker who had one day fallen into a radioactive mulch pile.