Bowling, Basil and Bad Taste

If you have never gone bowling for roosters, you should. It's a new game I made up. Take a soccer ball and try to hit as many roosters as you can with it while it rolls on the ground. Now before you PETA people jump all over me, hear me out. Roosters dont just crow at 6am or 8am. No, here they crow whenever they feel like it. Most often it seems to be at midnight or 2 am or 4am. Then of course, in the middle of the afternoon too, when you are trying to take a nap. So it can be rather fun to scare them with a soccer ball.

My Italian neighbor is growing basil to add to his food. Yesterday, I bought a little planting pot and he gave me some good, rich soil and a few buds of basil to grow. I'm rather excited and must say that I might try to grow some other stuff, if I can figure out what other stuff I want to grow. I'm not exactly Miss Greenthumb, but just wait...I might be soon! Green, after all, is my favorite color.

I went to the fabric store the other day to get some fabric to make some curtains for my living/bed room. I had the measurements and everything and I was rather excited about this adventure. I picked a plain, greenish teal color and had the lady cut it for me. (My apartment is in desperate need of some bright colors) Then I was thinking in order to make it more opaque, I could get another color and put that color on the back of the green, so that from the outside you would see the bright pink, and when you are inside my apartment, you see the green. So I left with a strip of green and one of pink. I figured even without a sewing machine, I could use safety pins and hem and cut as I saw fit...at least for now. However, there was not enough fabric, somehow maybe the lady didnt quite understand what I was saying when I was referring to the width of the window. (Of course its her fault, not mine!) So I now have hanging in my apartment two sheets of fabric. The left side of the window is covered in teal green, the right side in bright pink. Beautiful I tell you. No wonder Im not an interior designer!!

Two weeks of class with the kids, then teacher work days, then home for a bit!