Is there like an avocado CSA program where I can buy a timeshare in someone's Southern California backyard and they send me avocados?

This could be me! It's not my avocado tree, but our neighbors and there are So Many Avos in my side yard that it's a bit disconcerting. But they taste better than the ones in our old yard. As do our lemons, our oranges and now we have pears and figs and cheremoya and quince.

Oh. and pomegranates.

4 cop cars and 8 cops conferencing at the end of my alley on Ellerslie. One waved at me. Couldn't tell if it was the one that stopped me last week. Curious.

I am so in love with this pen [link] that I went to Amazon and submitted a review. I don't even shop on Amazon. I'm just enjoying the pen, and am annoyed that the Staples near me doesn't have the marvellous seven colour pack, as well as more black ones for my every station--I need them stashed in all my bags, near all phones, everywhere. Emergency notes and drawing could break out at any time. I was a Girl Guide. I need to be prepared.

Kat+pomegranate=LA.

No solution to the break-ins, sara?

You know, our old house didn't have a pomegranate, but Lori's did. Now we have access to two pomegranate trees. So many poms that the birds ate most of them this year.

Grace wears the probe for her pulse oximeter on her toe. She wears the same probe for as long as we can, usually a week. This morning and just a few minutes ago, it randomly would go off. When I walked into her room, she was waving her foot around setting the alarm off. GROWL.

I am so in love with this pen [link] that I went to Amazon and submitted a review.

I've been using Pilot since high school, love them. By the looks of things, I currently have on me V5s in all available colours except purple. (Used to have that too. I think it started leaking.) Their predecessors, the hi-tec points, had brown and orange too. (The multiple colours were fantastic for drawing graphs in Economics exams.)

Has anyone else had Hatch popcorn? Delicious even if painfully hot. Must stop eating.

Oh, I had a thing I wanted to share with all my buffistas because I knew you'd understand.

Today Franny wore an outfit she particularly loves. It's a top with a tie and jacket that looks a bit like a school uniform. She wore it with black pants, boots, and a brown hobbit traveling cloak. This morning, before school, she told me that one of her class mates tried to tease her about it the last time she wore that top saying she "looked like she belonged at Hogwarts." It was a totally What Would Jilli Do? moment for me. I told her she shouldn't let that kind of comment stop her from wearing what she wants, that she should dress to make herself happy. And what I loved was that she had put the outfit on BEFORE she told me. She had already decided she was gonna wear what she wanted, I guess she just needed a little encouragement.

Awww. Go Franny! Though of course saying she looks like she's from Hogwarts should not be a limiting factor.

I need to do two things -- program the iPad since Grace is now a major iPad/Communications Device user (thanks, Lee!) with all of the names of the kids in her class, per the speech teacher's request and take a cookie inventory. I'm just beat though and want to do neither.

And what I loved was that she had put the outfit on BEFORE she told me. She had already decided she was gonna wear what she wanted, I guess she just needed a little encouragement.

Aw, that's great. And dude, who thinks "you belong at Hogwarts" is even an insult? Hogwarts is awesome!