Hello again from my balcony

This time I'm sitting in my plain old plastic fake Adirondack chair because my Texass chair went on a crazy adventure with Adriane and I've been too lazy to unfold it. If I look up, I see this:If I look down, I see this:
Guess everything is just fine here at the Grove. Sorry I've been slow to the post, but it's been a "busy" week (or two). Weekend before last, we took a trip to Denton to visit the Starks and as usual it was lovely. We got up early on Sunday to witness (on TV) an important moment in Texas history: the implosion of Texas Stadium. You can watch many many videos of it here. Unfortunately, I didn't take ANY pictures even though the camera was in my purse the whole time. Fortunately, my #1 blog reader was there so she saw everything. For the rest of you, I can show you the things I got on our lady shopping trip.
I like this necklace because it looks like fish eggs.
This bracelet will look great with this sweater, provided it ever becomes a sweater. Don't worry, I'm sure I'll find plenty of chances to wear it in the meantime. We also got our traditional pedis-this time I picked red glitter. (Trust me, it's glittery, you just don't want to get close enough to these feet to see) Toes look weird. Or maybe just mine with the freakishly long 2nd toe.

This past weekend the Howell adults went on vacation, so I got to spend LOTS of extra time with the Howell kids. Thanks once again to my sweet JS, it wasn't so bad. We took them on the fancy new commuter train. It wasn't the worst time ever, but I don't think the intended demographic for this activity is the not quite two year old. It's ok, it wasted-I mean productively used-a couple hours, so overall a plus. We also took them to a Round Rock Express game and powered through an HOUR AND A HALF rain delay. If you don't spend much time with little kids you might say "what's the big deal?", but if you do, you might say "y'all are super badasses!" And you, second person, would be right.

In entertainment news, we just finished season 2 of Breaking Bad. This is a fantastic show but I have to say that towards the end it really pushed the limits of plausibility. I guess for all y'all normal people with basic cable this is no news at all. In other a year behind viewing news, I've started whatever season of Mad Men is on dvd now, and this morning I saw that Christina Hendricks is the most attractive woman in America. I very much agree.

And now for the most exciting news of all here at C &D! We have a new follower! Our very own Jack Daniel Stanley, the finest filmmaker we know. Welcome, follower #2! Yippee!!