does it count as early adoption if it's a sofa, not a computer?

No photographs today because it was so wet and dreary yesterday; everything came out grey. But everything is moving apace! We still don't have a full bathroom yet but we have almost all of the ingredients — the holdup is the grout, which needs 48 hours to cure before we can seal it and caulk up the rest. (I am pretending I know what all of these words mean.)

We do, however, have a sofa! Specifically, this sofa. I love it, and not just because we are the only people in all of Toronto own this sofa (so far). It's part of West Elm's new collection, which they just put in stores before this weekend. They had one in stock, and then we took it away. The salesgirl and cashier were both delighted and tickled that it was bought so soon.

It's fabulous, though. I really didn't think we were going to be able to find anything small enough for our space, and this is just perfect. The cats love it, too. I know this because I lost them for an entire afternoon yesterday, and found them both curled up on the sofa. On opposite corners, of course.

Garden Update:

The African violet is still alive! That's a whole week, then. I have to say that I obsess over it a little. It's sort of become my talisman — if I can keep this thing alive, then I can garden. Maybe. The garden is starting to bud, actually, all these tender shoots of bright green. I have no idea what they are. They may, for all I know, be weeds. The previous owner assured me that the garden is mostly wild flowers and requires no maintenance whatsoever, but everything I've read so far indicates that non-maintenance leads to ... well. A garden full of things that end in -weed: milkweed, pokeweed, smartweed. I am reasonably sure that I don't yet have bindweed, but it may only be a matter of time.