ipod, sprinklers, & curtains

I never blogged about some of my recent acquisitions. While my friends do the compact, or work on minimizing their "stuff", I just keep on acquiring.

For Mothers Day, I bought myself an Ipod. I've been spending my time figuring out, playing with, and loading songs onto the thing. I do that more than I actually use it to listen!

Clint has been hard at work in most of his free time getting sprinklers set up in my garden. I was so busy bumming because he wouldn't start on the front yard, which needs excavation, that I failed to notice how much work he was putting in to my garden space. As I grow my garden, he has been right behind me, adding sprinklers to make watering a breeze.

The biggest suprise is that he says he enjoys it. A year ago he said, "I'm glad you like your garden, just don't expect me to work in it with you." It didn't bother me; I knew he meant I couldn't expect him to be on hand to do the hard stuff just because I wanted it done. After all, it is my thing, not his. And yet, that's exactly what he's been doing. Half my garden now gets watered with the turn of a valve.

My other recent acquisition is new curtains. I've been wanting to get curtains for my bare windows for years. For a while the minimalist look was great, but I wanted to warm up the space a little, and privacy is nice, too. I chose a claret ret velvet, and I love it; usually I get frozen with these types of decisions because I worry so much about making a mistake, and then spending the next 10 years looking at something I hate. But I think I did good this time; I really like them.