Cat Butts

Dropped The Youngest at school this morning. Then decided to wander around this "boutique" garden center before I went home.

WOW!

Awesome greenhouse, sweet gift shop, cool water fountains, fabulous statuary - cute, cute stuff, but total and complete sticker shock! 4" geranium?  $12.99.

Hello?

Lawrence, Kansas? Is anybody out there?

Seriously. I know they're in RICHland but who can/will pay these prices? Repeat after me....Recession....

And I was so sad because there, right as I turned to leave, was a display of little ceramic cat butts. Fuffly ones, black ones, yellow ones, ones with kinked tails, ones with curved tails. How perfect. There is an apartment that deserves to have the whole collection prominently displayed on it's walls. One of those running jokes that we just can't let die.

But...

$9.99 for one little 2" high cat butt.

Sigh.

Not today.

I showed them tho. I got in my rig, trotted myself right down to the Farmer's Exchange and blew $75 on lots and lots of flowers.

And by the way, snotty boutique...their beautiful, 4" geranium's were only $2.99.

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Just Having a "Little Moment"

Bwahahahaha!

Trying to figure out how to spell a word. Grab my trusty Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (copyright 1975.) Old faithful. I've had it for - ahem, a year or two. As The Youngest so blithely announced the other day...Mom, I don't know if that dictionary will do you any good. I don't think they had that word back then.  Grrrrrrrr. Smart alec.

Anyways.

I'm flipping thru the pages. 'Cause, like, you know, if you don't know how to spell it you're seldom going to turn directly to it. My eyes kind of widen, because I'm turning pages rather fast, but wait. That illustration. What????

Dictionary Porn?

Oh, I see.

Skunk cabbage.

Snicker. Snicker.

Okay class, let's see if the old dictionary has "phallic symbol" in it....
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