Blog! Let’s try this again. Yesterday and today I hit publish on my blog entry and the entire entry disappeared, save the title and category links. LAME. That used to happen to me all the time back in the Blogger days, before I moved to WordPress. It got so bad I used to type all my blog entries in Word, then paste them into Blogger.

Update: thanks D.S. Webster for helping me fix my WP problem!

This blurry Instagram photo was taken exactly one week ago. I was standing at the dog park in the pouring rain wearing my Hunter wellies, a rain jacket AND holding an umbrella for good measure…and no one else was around, just me and the girls. My father called me and we had a great long phone conversation while I stomped around in the mud about dogs, which wood is best for hardwood floors (he tells me cherry wood is horrible–too soft), and “The Property Brothers”.

I’ve seen “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “The Breakfast Club” countless times, but I still have yet to make it through “Pretty In Pink” in its entirety. We started watching it recently and then, predictably, got bored. However, the Duckie character was clearly the best of the bunch. Gay as the day is long!

I’ve been finding all kinds of fun things while packing, including this little Edie Sedgwick wristlet. In the New House we’re going to have 2.5 bathrooms, and I’m pretty sure one of them needs to be Warhol Factory silver. With glitter finishes! Can you dig it?

Heart-shaped rocks always catch my eye. If they’re especially pretty I’ll take them home.

I am in looooove with this tree. This is the second year in a row I had to pull the car over and take pictures of it.

Mushroom season is in full bloom ’round here. Today outside Walgreen’s I saw a cluster of Amanitas! Can you imagine?

Something possessed me to participate in “Throwback Thursday” on Instagram yesterday and post this picture of Little Lizzie–it cracks me up. Those bangs! That ruffly pinafore! Classic.

TGIF, beeg time. I just returned home from an hour at the dog park, so that Maggie will ignore me for the rest of the night. Last night she could sense my excitement over Halloween shopping and she was ALL OVER ME. I mean, literally. It was ridiculous. We went out and started gathering supplies for our old people costumes…and let me tell you, it wasn’t much of a stretch! I mean, the muumuu that I bought I would actually wear. Minus the ruffle, of course. It was a welcome diversion…every time I’m home now all I can think about is PACKING!

Tonight we have promised ourselves NO PACKING. We have all weekend for that. Happy weekend, blog-loggers, I’m gonna hit publish now and hope for the best!