Success !

Yes, you saw it here first-Loving Husband has agreed to to provide me with the damn TV! I pointed out that he actually spent 5 whole days in the hospital with his (somewhat more serious) kidney operation,while they threw me out the AM after my (somewhat less serious)surgery. I mean I'm not egomaniacal enough to put my surgery on the same level as his -I just want a freakin' TV so that while my leg is going up and down -with no help from me-there is something I can control! besides I'm sure I'm missing valuable episodes of Jerry Springer. Someone out there is sleeping with their sister's standard poodle and his cat has become homicidally jealous and is placing photos of the tryst on the internet, and I want to see it! watching a cat give a dog a beatdown and commit internet black mail is "must see TV".
The children have been very busy building alternate abodes over the last few days. My pioneer husband coerced them into cutting as many trees as possible while I was unable to do anything about it and turn them into small hovels(I mean forts) around the yard. This is wonderful because I was really looking for some new structures to highlight my beautiful gardens(there's nothing up yet-but I'm never one to miss potential)this season. The creation of these forts requires the kids to spend much outside using hammers,saws,axes and tresspassing on people's property (my crazy neighbor behind us) for materials. Said children are between the ages of 10 and 17 so I feel comfortable that they fully appreciate the concentration and safety requirements of using these tools. I did draw the line when one of EC's friends wanted to use the chainsaw "just for a minute". I told him I need a signed notorized document absolving us of any and all liability for any unexpected, wildly bloody carnage which may or may not take place. He was redirected to the kitchen for a serrated bread knife. That pretty much took care of that.
Getting back to the materials of these structures. My children and their friends are building using only recycled,green sustainable materials. Hey, we may have 5 cars ,3 dirtbikes,2 lawn tractors and a motorboat but dammit, the environment matters!(acually it is really important to us-I promise).Anyway one of the components of the huts is bamboo. This is where the tresspassing comes in. The largest stand of bamboo is in the woods behind the house and borders on the crazy witches property behind us.
So they're traipsing around back there cutting down stalks when they see her and her ex cop husband lurking around watching them.Of course the kids freaked-she could snap at any moment-and came running home to tell me. They decided to retrieve the pieces in deep night when it was safer. However for a reason no one actually knows they went back down during the day. Apparently they are all caught up on Jerry Springer behind us,because the kids found her sitting in the a lawn chair amongst the bamboo(now who needs a hobby)! Last I checked people were begging people to dig up,cut,or otherwise eradicate bamboo from their property before it takes over the house and they can't open the doors! I think she was packing heat! Anyway the children emerged unscathed with all their bamboo and continue to build lovely outbuildings around the property.
Tomorrow: I type a whole uncorrected sentence with my laptop moving around!
Stay tuned!