Monday in the garden of dirt and weeds

So yeah I've been giving in and letting the cats play outdoors. Hopefully Notlee can protect Lee from any of the backyard perils he could face: birds, dogs, creepy mutant insects...Speaking of birds, I'm still amazed at the number of bird species I can see right here in my lil' old duplex yard. Fans of the olde tyme excruciating minutiae will remember how enamored I was with the birds when I first moved here. It's still pretty exciting for me to see "exotic" birds like bluejays and cardinals in my very own yard. (Dork!)

It's been a while since I've posted anything, I hope you've found other things to do in the meantime. If I made a pie graph of my recent activities I think the biggest slice would go to watching movies. I'm finally free from the scorn of my sis because now I've seen Casablanca. It was part of the Paramount Summer Film Series. Check out the schedule of super fantastic movies! Y'all should come down here and go to some of them with us. We also went to Scarface at the Alamo Ritz and Terminator at the regular Alamo by my house. I have no idea if anything actually happened in the Terminator movie, but lots of shit blew up and that's why I went. Plus there's nothing wrong with jalapeno poppers and beer. And a side of pizza. 

Saturday evening we went to Walberg. After coming to terms with the fact that this trip had nothing to do with Marky Mark,  (it's not even spelled the same, silly!) I had a wonderful time. It meant a lot to me to get in touch with my German heritage.  Plus there was a Pollyanna style brass band. Beautiful.