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Spent another hour on the phone with the IRS (mostly on hold), getting the last bit of info I needed to complete my letter to them which I got into the mail after a nice visit and food cart lunch w/

lupagreenwolf.

Returned to Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden w/Lisa this afternoon. Goal: blossoms and ducklings. Boyoboy did we succeed in meeting our goals! Plenty of rhodies were in bloom (although a tad past the peak b'c of our unusually hot early May days). Uber-cute baby waterfowl were much in evidence. Goslings Galore! Delightful Ducklings (standard Mallard)! Wonderful Wood Ducklings! 'Twas really quite pleasant to wander around and enjoy the quite pleasant afternoon. Afterwards, we enjoyed a fine dinner of salad 'n' wings (yeah, we felt inspired ;-) at Fire on the Mountain.

After dropping Lisa off chez

jaylake for the rest of the evening, I studied my options. Feeling pretty exhausted after hours in the hot sun, I chose just to stop by a friend's b-day party on my way home rather than travel cross town to join up w/other friends at Irving Kitchen. Had a very good time chatting w/folks and enjoying the 2nd Cthulhu Cake I've encountered in the past week. Is Cthulhu Cake the new Friday thing? We shall see...

Clickie here for link to pics from Crystal Springs Duckling Garden.

Clickie HERE for link to pics of Cthulhu B-day Cake.

Teaser pics from these sets:

Cthulhu Cake #2 - Click here for Cthulhu Cake #1 From Last Friday

Mama Mallard w/Some of Her Ducklings

Tomorrow (Noon - 6pm on Sun, 27 March 2011): Lovecraft Bar's 1st Love Craft Fair.

So, sometimes synchronicity strikes like lightning. Yesterday, my fave hat finally left the planet for good while on mini-walkabout w/

jaylake beneath the most amazing 'n' bright double-rainbow I've ever experienced. We retraced our steps all the way back to the Hive in search of it, but to no avail. *sigh*

You all know the hat, it's what decorates my noggin in my default LJ icon (and has kept me warm for the past several years, even since my previous hat disappeared in Ross(well) whilst shopping for flannel sheets). It's been adorned the past couple or so years w/the fab knit Cthulhu that

delerium3 got for me at 2009?'s HPLovecraft Film Fest & CthulhuCon. I'd in turn adorned this cute Cthulhu w/the tiny Canadian maple leaf pin I got last Fall during my fab b-day Canadian Rockies grand adventure w/

lightfoote. Many MANY times IT tried to escape - starting the very first evening I wore it - and now it's succeeded. *sigh* (Hmm, in retrospect, I think the rainbow was its signal that 'twas time to leave.)

Then, though, about 1/4 hour after returning home from a delightful time out 'n' about last night, I heard from

ferociousbcycad about the Love Craft Fair at the Lovecraft Bar that's happening TOMORROW. Whee-yay! What better place to find a replacement knit Cthulhu?! And I'd already been planning to check out the Lovecraft Bar tomorrow (on

jaylake's reco. And

ebony_sphynx knitted me a fab hat for this past x-mas!

All will work out for the best, in this best of all possible worlds.