you give me fever

the weather here has been beyond beautiful. cool in the mornings and evenings, warming up a little during the day. like truckee summers.

i have gained a new fondness for looking at houses. maybe it started when david and i were looking for a house to move into. as i take walks i look at houses. they tend to fascinate me. the living spaces of humans. garages and tiny walkways. patios and verandas. places where humans dwell, built in proportion to the human body. some of them have fallen into disrepair, or were never given much consideration. others appear to have been snatched from hollywood in 1947. some don't fit on their streets, but their presence on their streets enhances the streets they're on. i want to take pictures of the houses and draw them. the houses are precious, put a lump in my throat. the houses have been through a lot. sidewalks, too. i had an idea... but no, i'll keep the idea to myself until i try it out.

i got new glasses. they're small.

at last-- the keith haring pictures in the corner of my dining room decided to stay up on the wall, thanks in part to the scotch brand sticky squares i finally attached them with. there are 12 of them. i salvaged them from my old keith haring calendar book from 1998.