And another thing…

Does anyone know if a U.S. company carries an item like this?

Here’s the URL of the UK site.

I love it.

I got an email today from my good friend, Jeff Bezos, at Amazon.

Grocery shopping on the web. I love Amazon.

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I’ve never had a home of my own before, so when we purchased this house, I knew I wanted have a garden. In my mind, I was going to be one of those women who would put on gardening togs every weekend and wear one of those wide brimmed hats and putter in the garden.

I’d become one of those little old ladies, wrinkled, leathery skin from too many days spent in the sun. Gnarled, battered hands from tilling and weeding and pruning. I’d turn into my Aunt Edith, who, slapped on lipstick (even at 80) because she should, not because she was interested and always ended up with more on her front teeth than on her lips.

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When I first joined the HouseBlogs webring, there was criteria imposed that something like 85% of your blog entries had to focus on home renovation issues. I don’t know if that still holds true or not, but we joined because, well, we weren’t doing much of anything but home reno anyway. But lately, I’ve been thinking that there must be something else to talk about…right?

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