Month: March 2011

More of the awesome flowers outside our bedroom window.

We have two trees and I divided this mix so that we could have a little bed of blooms in front of each tree. The crocuses have spread since last year and the (red) tulips are only showing up in the left bed.

I was so sad in the first week because the dumb squirrels kept eating the yellow crocuses (only the yellow ones! Gah!) but they’ve stopped and the crocuses regrouped, so now it’s just completely gorgeous.

While I’m on an offices kick, I should post about my new computer – a Christmas gift from Kevin, and pretty much an amazing little machine.

I’ve had desktop towers for years. This uses laptop components for the most part plus a great graphics card (to power my monster monitor), has all sorts of useful slots, and is teeny tiny (less that 8”x8”x3.5” in every dimension). Plus, unlike my Jan ’06 model, it boots, resumes and shuts down like a champ. I’d forgotten how nice it was to have a computer that just works, seamlessly, without all sorts of quirks and temperamental displays. Plus, so tiny it sits on my desktop between my monitor and my lamp instead of down on the floor. My moving-into-dorm-rooms self is jealous – carrying the computer up flights of stairs wouldn’t be the same difficult issue with this model, I’m thinking.

Awesome from a stylistic sense as much as from a toddler-proofing one.