Another day of many little things that hopefully will someday add up to a real income. The menfolk here are not pushing me to get another job – if anything quite the opposite. Everyone seems to like having me home. I like it, too – but I don’t like this barely scraping along and every minor event becomes a financial disaster sort of thing. I’d be really happy to find a nice little part-time painless job, two or maybe three days a week. Leaving me plenty of time and energy to play about here

We had a Cactus Wren visit this morning. She even knocked on the window to say “hi”. Or maybe she was chasing flies that were (unfortunately) on THIS side of the window! She knocked so loud the dogs even ran and barked at her as if she were a human visitor. I have to admit I was still too dozy to go find the camera and try for a photo. Maybe she’ll drop by again tomorrow.

I think we have gotten rid of the rodent problem. Now I need to put all those pots and pans and things back in the bottom drawers and cabinets. Sigh. And rewash all the towels yet AGAIN since Mr. Wee Wee Rodent has been back in on them before we got his mess cleaned up and the spot he was getting in blocked off. At least he didn’t seem to have a nest IN the house so we hope this takes care of him.

Of course, today I discovered a can of evaporated milk had exploded on the shelf. The smell was quite indescribable. *shudder* So that was quite a clean up. And I have laundry to catch up, too. You can sure tell I was working a lot of hours away from home.

I ran onto a link to this wonderful video of Bobby McFerrin (“Don’t Worry, Be Happy”) showing some brain surgeons a thing or two. What I love is how everyone, no matter their country or language – understands this.

I added a couple of new coloring pages – yet another jumping pony (I love drawing them and the kids seem to love to color them) and a couple of young eagles having a disagreement.

The eagles came from a photo on the Discovery.com website. The posturing is so obvious I just couldn’t resist. I also colored it and will enter it into the wildlife contest tomorrow over at A Singular Creation. I also added it into the Birds of Prey free clipart page. Here’s the colored version:

I also got the free clip art blog up and running so I can post updates when I add new art and get the old sections up and running again, too.

And I am really excited to announce that I will be hosting the I and the Bird Carnival October 1st edition! With one thing and another I haven’t gotten to participate in it for a long time – and it’s my favorite blog carnival! I am really looking forward to it!

Hubby just handed me a grilled cheese sandwich – YUM. I hear thunder outside, too. It is officially fall around here – turning off quite chilly and getting a lot of moisture – finally. So I’m off to have some dinner and then go feed the chickens their dinner.

Later tonight I think I’m finally going to get it together and get some of my Bella Sara cards up on eBay. I was so upset to see our local Alco has discontinued carrying them completely. Then voila’ the Walmart suddenly had a FEW, just a FEW of the Royals packs (and now I have at least some of them). All in all, looks like I’m going to be ordering my Bella Sara cards online from now on. Which sort of takes some of the fun out of it. They are my little indulgence if I am in town for some business, and have $3 left and have “been good” (got my important stuff done) then I get to have a pack or two of Bella Sara cards. I won’t do that if I’m ordering online – shipping being what it is.

Well, gotta go before my sandwich gets cold!

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