My deck is beautiful today. Yesterday, we went to Lowe’s and bought bedding flowers and now all the planters are full of blooming wonder and it smells great, over at the far end of the deck.

The whole deck is beautiful, but that far end is a little more beautiful, besides smelling better.

I got multi-colors this year, because flowers, like people, are better when they’re all mixed together. Somehow, each one stands out more, when everything around them is diverse.

No, no lesson today. Heh.

I’d take a picture of my beautiful colorful sweet-smelling summertime deck and post it here, but I can’t. Not yet.

First, I have to somehow get rid of this pile of spilled charcoal and dust, and I can’t clean it up yet because the cats pooped all over it (“Thank you for the new potty, Mommy.”) and I don’t know what they’d been eating but it was very obviously something mighty powerful, and until it all dries I can’t really do anything with it. Well, I COULD, but you don’t want me to throw up, do you? I didn’t think so.

I hope it rains today, really hard.

Mother Nature, please clean this mess up for me. Make it go away with your mighty torrents. I’m leaving the house for a few hours, and I don’t want to see it when I get back.

Thankyouverymuch.