A kumquat for our living room...

I'm alive! For a while there, we were wondering...three days of intense body aches and a fever did not make for a very fun time, but I woke up yesterday with hardly any traces of the little invaders whatsoever. And today I still feel great!

So, friends, guess what we did? We bought our first tree! First of many, if all our dreams come true. This one is a kumquat tree for our living room (yes, our living room) and it's so fun! We bought a huge yellow pot for it to go in and soon, the fruit should be a bright orange to compliment. The running total for plant life in our house thus far is somewhere in the range of 16-20, with lots more to come! They're in our windowsills, hanging on hooks in every room, on tables, cupboards, even the refrigerator. I'm fairly certain I've talked about this before, but Isaac's dream is to bring as much of the outdoors inside, and the most we can do in a rental house is have tons of plants. Eventually, we'll buy ourselves some land and build some amazingly interesting house that Isaac designed specifically to accommodate an enormous cherry tree in the living room, but for now we're settling with our little kumquat tree. And it will go in the living room as soon as it's done basking in the light of the kitchen window during its recovery from the shock of being transplanted. In other news, we got ourselves a rabbit ears antennae for our television so we could try to bring in the channels with football games on game days for Isaac, and it has brought our little family some high quality entertainment these last few days. Not entertainment from the shows it broadcasts, mind you, but entertainment from the many different ways Isaac can find to hold the antennae so it displays a better picture. If you've ever had the ol' rabbit ears, then you know exactly what I'm talking about, huh? It's pretty hilarious. Yesterday afternoon, I walked in on his latest genius to get better reception for the game he wanted to watch. Cute, isn't it? Yes, that is a PVC pipe he is holding with the rabbit ears duct taped to the top. He was a little embarrassed that I might publicize this picture and then everyone would know how much work went into trying to watch one football game, but the truth is I'm actually quite impressed with Isaac's talents at creating the best picture. For one station, he even duct tapes the antennae up to the heater next to the tv. Ridiculous, but it works! Yes, my husband is a technological genius. Ooo, and you can see another one of our hanging Pothos plants above the tv! Here's our other Pothos on top of our cupboard, crawling all over the wall. I would picture all of our plants here for you, but something tells me that not everyone would find that as fascinating as Isaac and I do. It's probably better to hit you with them one or two at a time, and then you can get the full effect the next time you come to visit our place. Mmmm, we just love our plants!