Stuff Around the House

So all the cool kids are doing it (like here and here and here) so what the hey. It's certainly a good solution for those "blogger's block" times when you don't have much to say.

This is my chicken cookie jar, looking out the window at the very sunny back garden. I think she is wondering why the heck it's nice now, when everyone has gone back to school and work.

I found this cookie jar in a mega-thrift shop in Yachats, Oregon. The town motto is "La di dah". I'm not kidding. We were there for a family reunion about 7 years ago and, as is the way of our people, the women went shopping while the men went golfing. (Except my sainted brother who had taken all the younger kids to a zoo or museum or something).

I saw this cookie jar and I had to have it. I don't know why. I don't bake cookies that often and when I do there aren't enough left to put in a cookie jar. It's not the most accurate representation of a chicken. But there was something about it that said, "Take me home". I kept walking away and coming back and finally, amid the mocking of my family, bought it. They all threatened to inundate me with chicken ceramics for the rest of my life but to date none of them have. Although they still tease me about the chicken.

I still can't explain the presence of the chicken in my life. I'm really not a ceramic chicken cookie jar kind of gal. (Which is why the womenfolk found my choice so odd. It was out of character and therefore worthy of twitting). But there she sits and I still love her so she stays.

Also, as you know, The Spouse and I have been catching up on "Battlestar Gallactica" and finding it very enjoyable. We also find it amusing that the humans derisively refer to the Cylons as "toasters". What's even funnier is that whenever you actually see a toaster it's like this one:

Our frackin' toaster. It has a plan.