Oh, I didn't realize about the copper colored screen. That's brilliant. We don't usually have problems with mosquitoes, so we spend a lot of time on our open deck, but this year with the good monsoon, it's been so wet we have them. Which means I would appreciate a screened in porch. But the next expansion (in dreamworld!) would be a greenhouse for the south side of the house, one made for plants, not people, so it would get sun in the summer, too. After that, instrument storage, and then maybe a screened porch. Um. After the fence. Yeah, we can't afford any of that. But still!

Things I can't say elsewhere: I'm incredibly flattered you say I'm your idol. But when you spell it as "your my idle", I wince a tiny bit.

But when you spell it as "your my idle", I wince a tiny bit.

Fast idle, with a cold engine and the choke on? Or slow idle with a warm engine?

Tell him/her, "Your [sic] my WOT (wide open throttle)."

just to have written proof here that there are good and sweet times in my house....

Tonight mac read to me...twice...the book Love You Through and Through. It is a baby book that has become the book I read to him when I think he needs to hear that he is good and loved and lovable. I was giving him that information tonight at bedtime and he got out the book to read to me. He is letting me know he knows the cues, he hears them, he just can't put it in his own words. He's building his own toolbox until he finds his full voice for all the emotions.

Oh msbelle, that's wonderful. Please excuse me being a bit sniffly at that.

Oops, where did my post go?

Anyway, that's so awesome of mac.

That's really sweet, msbelle

Ah god, msbelle, that's just lovely!

So my SIL's new job...her first step is mending fences. Last director told the staff s/he'd fight them every step of the way. Niiiice. So her first order of business is ingratiating herself to them, win them over, then figuring out who needs to go. Yikes.

Oh, msbelle, how wonderful.

Awww.