Of Houseplants and Cats

I know next to nothing about plants. My knowledge is limited to a few simple facts: that they are often green and that they require varying levels of water and light. I also have two cats that love to get into everything. With this in mind I've been looking for a resource on plants that are safe (safer?) around beasts such as these:


So far all I have really been able find are lists of the plants that are non-toxic but, with reference to what I mentioned above about knowing next to nothing about plants what I really want is a page that will show me actual pictures of each variety. Since I haven't been able to find a resource like this online I'm taking a crack at creating my own.



Here is a link to the ASPCA site that has a complete listing of plants not reported to have terrible effects on cats. They also have great resources for plants and common household things that ARE toxic.

My listing is probably not complete and I don't swear by the images being exactly what your plant might look like. This is just meant to be a guide. Please do your own research on plants and your pets before making any purchases.

Visitors

Guests will be coming out for a visit in May and I've been trying to come up with a list of things to do around the area. I've been looking at 1 Day and Multi-Day Trips and have put together a hokey but functional (I think) presentation of some of these ideas using Google Docs presentation.



I'm also going to work on a list of things to do around the city. I'm thinking stuff like:

Bill Speidel's Underground Tour

Space Needle

EMP

SAM

Pike Place Market

The Go Seattle™ Card seems like it might be a good way to save a little money and still see almost all the things on the list, plus a few more that maybe we wouldn't visit otherwise.

Both of the boys have people coming to visit, only a few weeks apart. I'm not sure what sort of things they are looking to do, beyond the obvious of course, but I might end up stealing some ideas from them if they come up with anything good.

No matter what we end up doing I'm sure that good times will be had by all. Now if I could only afford to hire a maid to come in and do all the "pre-house guest" cleaning!