Adopting in Ashburn

Love me some musical madness. Almost as much as I love live (spontaneous) art projects. Thanks to Aunt Ro for sharing. Love always, ~Heather P.S. If you love singing along to stuff and are in the DC area (or willing to travel) buzz me for details on the upcoming sing-along birthday party. Your favorite Taurus is celebrating her new year in homestyle-karaoke fashion!

(To the tune of "Mysterious Fathoms Below" from the Little Mermaid ) Oh this is a tale Of a glory-filled girl Who spent this nice day at home. Out in the yard With a spade and a saw She cleared up those weeds with a hoe. (Instrumental: "Heave-ho") While this was occurring Her roommie was stirring The makings of wheat bread, oh dough! Bagpipes were playing On King Street parading For St. Patty's, early, I know! Fantastical daytime, it's so! I just felt moved to write a little tuneage to describe today. If I'm really going to reflect on my self for this Lenten promise, I might as well relay it in the way I seem to think. Yes, I often make up little ditties in my head. Yes, I occasionally sing them aloud. I agree, you wouldn't want to be in my head. :) Love always, ~Heather

... and I don't mean in a chair on the porch. Friday night I picked up my cousin from the Greyhound station. It was so awesome to have him come to town. The big impetus was a P.O.D. concert at the Hard Rock Cafe on Saturday night. So Saturday a.m. we got up late because watching Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels kept us up much later than our regular bedtimes. We ran to Home Depot to get some gardening supplies (yes, the townhouse is now in good enough shape that the yard is on the agenda). We swung by Harris Teeter for lunch supplies and bought ribs and asparagus. Clark made tons of barbecue sauce and I fixed a potato/egg salad and the veggies. An hour or so later we were chowing down. In the late afternoon we took a walk through Old Town, checked out Christ Church and the cemetery, the Confederate statue at Prince and Washington, and then we were walking towards what I thought was Captain's Row when we came across an open house. This guy waved us in the yard to a hi...