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Finally, one of the lilacs flowered nicely. Must have been the long spring or maybe the extra water from the new drip irrigation system last summer.

We met a future neighbor today (pee did a few days ago). They won’t be moving in for quite awhile but are flying back and forth to do some work to the place (it already has a beautiful new porch) . Should be quite a change from San Diego (probably cost less per square foot, too :).
There’s finally a halfway decent Mexican restaurant, El Pacifico, in Newark. It’s not quite this but an improvement over the last one in Palmyra. Looks like we’ll be doing that at least once a week, until, of course, pee gets a messed-up order and we can never go again (the dreaded restaurant curse).
There was another Rochester Small Dog event last weekend. Too bad I forgot an extra camera battery.

Any second now, everything green’s going to burst and it’ll be mowing season again. There’s this one lonely frog peeping away near the pond (sure hope he doesn’t freeze solid in the next few weeks), plaintively trying to rouse his fellows into consciousness (Paul’s comment: ‘K…somethin’s peepin’…’). Unfortunately, the first mosquitos have hatched as well.

Funny how you can’t wait for the next season to start. In winter, you can’t wait until you don’t have to put on a hat, gloves, coat, and boots just to walk the dog; in spring, it’s all the mud; in summer, it’s the bugs, and in fall, you want some nice clean snow to cover up all the dead brown grass. This was one thing that drove me nuts about California; never much of a change.

Also, we’ve been picking up a few DVDs, mostly at a discount. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire improves with viewings; Donnie Darko (director’s cut) disturbs the hell out of me late at night and makes me nostagic for 80’s music I wasn’t much into then (I’m always 20 years behind in listening taste); and The Village had the advantage of being $8 used from Netflix (I hate when writers don’t quite wrap up a movie. If you’re going to go that far, at least finish the story). Man that sounded bourgeois and American of me. Really, I like unconventional movies. At least Darko wrapped everything up satisfactorally (if you watch it a few times, which of course you will).