Stealth gardening and toilets, oh my!

(I wrote this yesterday but didn't get a chance to post till now!)

Well, the gardening isn't really stealthy; it's right there for all to see, but I felt sneaky doing it!  The city has been sprucing up corners with accessible ramps, and as part of that, we got a new "entrance" to our alley.  Part of that entrance was a new garden bed along the sidewalk for me!

OK, really they halfheartedly sprinkled grass seed there and threw down some hay (hay?!), but to my eyes, it was a pre-dug area of fresh dirt with no grass that was obviously to be, like I said, a new garden bed for me!

So I just took E's nap (which is miraculously long and still going on, I can barely believe it and only pray that she takes naps like this all the time, then I wouldn't be quite so crazed -- please, if you are a praying person feel free to root for my baby to take 90-minute-plus naps daily) and dug up some divisions of various perennials and groundcovers from around my yard, and planted the new bed with them!  Yet to come are some lavenders, as soon as I see if the cuttings I took survive.

Oh, and toilets?  On a lark, and because this device didn't work AT ALL, and our toilet had flushing issues, we replaced our main bathroom toilet with this!  I have to say, it is awesome.  Yes, I am excited about a toilet.  It is FAST and efficient and is saving us water (from our 3.5 gallons/flush 1962 throne to 1.6/1.1 gal. modern dual flushing) and even is fairly compact so our bathroom looks bigger!  What more could you want?  I know, one of those TOTO jobs with a heated seat and muzak and other wacky accessories, but we don't have thousands to spare.  But what we got is FANTASTIC!

(It being the next day and all, thought I should mention that E. has been awake in her crib alternately playing and crying for the past hour . . . so much for miracle naps!)