Louie, Louie

Earlier this week, we came home at the end of the school day to find the back door blown open by the wind.  Louie had taken full advantage of this all-day, unfettered access to the outdoors and gathered up ten (TEN!) shoes, one by one, and ferried them out onto the back lawn.  Interesting sense of humor he has, that Louie.  I wish I knew for sure the statement he was making to us.  A commentary on the stinky state of some of the shoes around here? An anti-consumerism protest?  Shoe-envy? Critique of our so-last-season footwear?

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Also. Yesterday Maddy found another little treasure tucked into the corner of our couch in the family room (remember when he stored up a bunch of dog jerky treats there?).  She plopped down on the couch and felt something nudging up against her hip so she snaked her hand down into the crevice (brave girl) and pulled out....a wrapped cube of butter!? He must have snatched it from the counter at some point.  I had to applaud his delay of gratification on that one. Hardly a toothmark on the cube!  Also, I'm trying not to take it too personally that he thinks he needs to hide the butter from us, from me.  (What?! Louie, I gave up dairy last month! Really!)

Shoes and butter. What can you do but laugh?

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Listen: Louie, Louie ~ The Kinks

Catalog humor

Have you had the chance to check out the very funny Catalog Living? Regular old catalog photos (so often ridiculous in their staging), captioned in the voices of Gary and Elaine, the supposed inhabitants of this catalog world.  A must-read, daily laugh for me. It's so hard to choose but here are a couple of favorites lately:

Gary, we were having such a lovely afternoon with the Andersons until you decided you just had to show off your string ball.

Elaine wasn’t about to let some hot flashes get in the way of balancing the checkbook with the abacus.

Elaine was not amused by Gary’s passive-aggressive response to her request to “garnish the cocktails.”

Peepshow

Every year we look forward to seeing The Washington Post's annual peep contest published on Easter.  This year (its 4th) did not disappoint. We especially liked the Eep! (UP!), Where the Wild Peeps Are, and Peepeline entries.

Here's a link to all of the fantastic entries. Enjoy!

When we were brainstorming what we would do for a peep theme,  Sam said "Masterpeeps Theater," Maddy said "Hidden Valley Peeps" (her favorite salad dressing), I thought Gladys and the Peeps would be great (I think someone has already done this at some point).   What about you--what would you do?