I smell like Ambrosia again. I'm in heaven, and it cost five bucks and some searching on the interwebs.

I'm buying a set of encyclopedias for the boys. Several times a week, I find myself wanting to say, "Go look it up" when the boys ask a question I don't know the answer to, and our reference section at home is good, but not THAT good. I've been meaning to pick up a set for quite some time, just never got around to it, until now. Yay, knowledge.

Nick and I built our own compost bin from rebar and chicken wire, this morning. We finally had to buy a sledge hammer (to pound the rebar into the ground), something you really don't find yourself needing until you live in a house. Next week, we're tilling the garden. We'll be borrowing a tiller from Tenants to Homeowners, they have a great system set up so all of us lease-holders can borrow common gardening and home improvement tools without having to buy them. Those things get pricy fast. If I can manage to not kill the seedlings in my makeshift greenhouse in the basement, they'll be planted by this time next week. Other outdoor summer projects include: pouring the concrete pad for a shed, planting more trees, and perhaps puttting up some sort of fence to keep out dogs. Frankly, I'm tired of people walking their dogs past the house and letting them s%$& all over the grass. And it's not on the edge of the lawn, either, sometimes it's right under the living-room window. That's just plain rude and disrespectful. I can either put up a fence, follow the dog walkers home and have Dominic crap in THEIR yard, or sit outside with a BB gun 24/7. Whatever.

My friend Rhonda lent me Duma Key, as I'd lent her Lisey's Story a while back. So far, so Stephen King. Tony has a friend over for the night, and I made an enchilada casserole since his friend is allergic to gluten, soy and dairy. I'm just chilling with my book, and glad that Tony and Dominic aren't relying on me to entertain them. I've been pushing them to invite their friends over here more often. I like it when the house is full of people.