weekend round-up

Friday started on a sad note with a long-distance mourning of the hopelessly furry and adorable Maddy, Kaili and LB's cat. Sad news indeed. I'm terribly allergic to cats but love them anyway and Maddy not only respected my allergic boundaries but seemed to go out of her way to be cute and highly entertaining from afar. Hope you guys are doing alright after such awfulness and we send you buckets of love.

Friday night I got to reap the benefits of Marc's Thursday night tapas cooking class. He made a dinner so yummy it could only be described as Dinner-asaurus Rex. I so married the right guy.

The rest of the weekend seemed to be all gardening all the time. Saturday I got my first sunburn of the summer tending to my gardens. Yikes. Good news, we got our window boxes all planted up, new lawn seed down (thanks for nothing moles) and almost all the weeding done. We ventured downtown for the morning to hit the annual summer street sale and nabbed 2 great big serving plates for mere dollars! After such a long day in the sun Marc treated me to pizzas at the Laughing Buddha and then off to the Townehouse. Marc and his ladies had their 2nd ever gig as Jean Wells and it was super fun. They even had a post-show gathering of fans at the stage! Rolling Stone magazine is surely the next step. They get better every time they play and are now calling themselves the bastard lovechild of the Go-Go's and the Be Good Tanyas. Fun stuff!

Sunday we paid a visit to my poor bashed up mother who tripped over their dog Mina at the lake and succeeded in breaking her hand, cutting her forehead and tearing up her knee. Anyone with a dog can surely relate to how unavoidable they can sometimes be, despite how much they might try to get out of your way. She's able to laugh it off thankfully , especially since she had to walk home from the lake covered in blood and swollen like some kind of horrific accident victim. Maybe we should be more concerned that nobody offered to help her? You would think if you saw an older woman who had clearly been in some kind of trouble that you might stop and offer to help? Especially if she's not only covered in blood but trying to still walk a dog with her one good hand? Ahhhh society. She's fine though and thinks the whole thing is pretty amusing, cast and all.

More weekends please....