miscellany monday: spring preview!

1) Some people asked where I go to see my blog stats. I use Statcounter for mine. It's free, and you just sign up for an account and follow instructions for adding the code to your blog (for Blogspot you add it as a gadget). Blogger also has a new Dashboard feature called "Stats". It gives you almost the same information and you don't have to do anything extra.

2) Let's talk about spring. When will it arrive? I was reading about gardening and thinking about window boxes last night! 

Last year's box on the deck. I'm thinking about having a second one with herbs this year.

3) Remember this post from last summer? Well. On Friday Pita and I went to the grocery store and I smelled the unmistakable smell of marijuana in the produce section. What the heck? And why produce and not the chip aisle?

4) I couldn't get rid of a craving for candy yesterday, and finally ended up getting some. First I ate some kale chips, hoping the health benefits of the kale would somehow counteract the candy :D.

Wouldn't it be nice if healthy foods were like antidotes to junk food? 


5) I went for a glorious 4-mile run yesterday. It was about 60 and warm enough to run in short sleeves! I felt a bit slow and sluggish, but it was so nice to be outside in warm weather.

6) When I was looking at garden pictures from last summer, I couldn't help pausing on some of Celia too. She was just a baby!

7) We played outside for a little while yesterday.

8) With the rain we've had, the snow is completely gone from one of the flowerbeds and part of the lawn!

9) Unfortunately the same can't be said for the one by the road. The snow there has melted just enough to reveal a lot of damage done to the lawn by snow plowing Bobcats.

10) Believe it or not, I don't have a great Outfit of the Week this week. Guess we didn't do much dressing up, or I didn't take many pictures. This came the closest, because Pita looks so cute and snuggly when she wears her slippers.