Just checking in...

howdy folks... haven't blogged lately, so I took a few quick pics, just to see what was around... This is the last of the portaluca... many of them have already gone to the great beyond, what with nights dipping down so low... they performed wonderfully all summer, so it's time to move on. I'm sure that the seeds are scattered all over and next year I'll have plenty more.

The agave is doing what agave does... more or less just sitting there looking threatening.

The yucca however has decided to grace us with a candelabra...

and the geraniums, after the summer heat, have revived and are blooming well... usually, we just let these die in the winter frost, but this year, I'm going to see if there's room in the cold frame for them.

I'm doing pretty good actually... Went to have a drink with an old friend that I haven't seen in person for years. We've been talking on facebook though... we went to the historic Belmont Hotel... to have a quick drink... no real chance of having too much to drink though. Hotel bar prices are too much for me... I can highly recommend the hotel though, seriously nice staff, and $109 a night for a wonderfully decorated boutique hotel in a building that's considered a grade A example of 1940's Art Moderne architecture really isn't that bad...

Decorating is kinda on my mind lately. What happened is this...

I am inheriting the family house. Fine and dandy.

So the other weekend, I was sitting here at the table, looking at this pic that my Mom had on the wall... it's a seriously ugly piece of crap. I hate it. I have hated it since the first day I saw the fake-Victorian-over-sentimental-so-cute-it-makes-you-want-to-retch thing. Mom knew I didn't like it. We agreed to disagree over it, and it hung there and turned my chair away from it so I wouldn't have to look at it...

So, I'm sitting there, noticing it for probably the first time in years, because I'm seriously good at ignoring things, and it suddenly occured to me.

I don't have to keep it.

Away it went into the flea market pile.

Next went the lace curtains.

3 more pictures.

2 ugly end tables.

And now, I'm giving a small shelf of obnoxiously cute porcelain pigs the evil eye...

And, I'm kinda casting around for ideas of what I want the house to look like now... Still not sure.
Probably modern, maybe some southwest thrown in... to make the cacti at home.

The ugly drapes will have to go, but they have to stay for the moment until I can decide what's gonna replace them...