whew.  no raccoons at all today; instead, i thoroughly cleaned the screened porch.  let me just say this – i never knew what raccoon pee smelled like.  I WILL NOW REMEMBER IT FOREVER.  IT IS A VERY VERY BAD SMELL.

this is the picture i took with my phone friday afternoon, after i’d finished planting all the flowers and grasses.  WHEW, i was tired.

this picture doesn’t do it justice…

well, at least you can tell it’s a lot of flowers and plants, but not so great; i guess i need to use my actual camera.  of course i felt so proud of myself, planting 21 things in two days, but last night a friend of mine told me about people she knows who had a HUNDRED day lilies in their yard.  they moved, and the woman dug up and transplanted 70 of them.  this blows my mind a little bit.  i mean, digging the holes and planting the plants is a lot of work, but TRANSPLANTING would me that much more trouble.  whew.

i took this with my phone BEFORE SEVEN on saturday morning.  gee, that was just yesterday; it feels like a million years ago.

mom helping me water amy’s FIVE MILLION PLANTS yesterday morning.  mom just threw on some ratty clothes to help me give les paul his medicine, but she stayed to help water, then we went on a great boat ride.

there are boats on the water today even though it is JUST SO HOT.  i’m sitting here in the air conditioning now.

here are a few photos of les paul, before declawing.  well, this first one is he and mollie, both very very tired.

i kept him in the bedroom and hot tub room til this afternoon.  right now he’s sleeping up on the guest bed.  he’s not going too crazy, and he continues to kind of creep around in a VERY VERY SAD WAY that makes me feel very guilty for not getting the less-painful laser surgery.  but all of a sudden when i got out some cat food he LEAPT up onto the counter.  i had to feed him up there, and then i gently set him on the floor.

when i wasn’t looking he LEAPT down off the back of the couch and then he was limping even worse.  this is why amy said MAKE HIM STAY IN THE HOT TUB ROOM.  but i think he’ll be fine.

kevin gets home soon, i think.  he sent me this photo of the ribbons he won.  we need to get some kind of big medal/ribbon case or something because right now they’re all kind of arranged on top of the victrola, but there are just so many of them…

ok then,

mrs. sunday afternoon hughes.