Happy St. George's Day

Happy St. George's Day to you! Never heard of this holiday? Well, it's the day England celebrates its patron saint -- named George, of course -- whom, legend has it, slew the last dragon in England.

Gotta love those legends, huh? Click here for more interesting info.

Emily wondered if we could have dragon wings and burgers for dinner in celebration. We all wondered where we'd find such items in Giant...

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Happy Monday to you, too! Another new week with another new bunch of busyness and another new video...brought to you courtesy of a new online friend/birthday buddy. (As an aside, I love how the Internet can link people who might never have ever met...it's a cool time to live.)

And, of course, another new episode of 24 in a few hours! It's getting more and more exciting!! Tonight, Jack will actually see Audrey in person! I was very disappointed to read several bad reviews of the season thus far. Everyone is so impatient and wants the show to be bigger and better every season. I think the media has done everyone a disservice with all the hype it did of the show in the beginning. What's wrong with status quo...especially when it's already excellent? Oh, well.

Idle grass.

Stuart and I did a bunch of work on the house over the weekend. Finally, we had a warm weekend. There's a bunch more painting to do, but we're well on our way. I also trimmed our rose hedge...and have all the poke marks (despite my gauntlet rose gloves) to prove it. We planted it three years ago to give our yard some privacy. It's hard work to keep up with it. I liken trimming it to doing Bonsai....on a much larger scale, of course.

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5 THINGS TO BE HAPPY ABOUT

• a new lipstick color
• spring’s first peepers
• an elegant archway
• joie de vivre
• an unexpected treat

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Growing up, I lived in the country.

I loved when Spring arrived because -- despite my hayfever -- I could smell the freshly-mowed onion grass and hear the springtime "peepers," the little frogs that lived in the nearby creeks and ponds, serenading one another.

It always meant that Spring had officially "sprung," and Summer would soon follow.

The lazy, hazy, carefree days of Summer...when you stayed outside late into the evening and played hide-n-seek and toasted marshmallows and got mosquito-bitten....

Ah! Gave one "joie de vivre!"

Off to cook wings for 24! Maybe I should have looked for dragon wings.....