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‘Tis Ostara. I’ve done some deep housecleaning – and have another project or two I intend to complete.

Hubby is cooking up his first fritatta and boiling eggs so I can make us some deviled eggs. Although it is the first day of spring, I’m glad we didn’t plan anything for outdoors. “Brisk” is a mild word for the cold north wind blasting across the high desert today. The chickens have bravely ventured forth and are hunting and pecking. The horses and mule are lying down in the sun on the south side of the barn out of the wind. Puffy white clouds are strolling across blue sky in little groups like sheep grazing their way across a field.

Squidoo has a new toy for us giants – widgets for the right sidebar. I haven’t even looked to see what the Get Cracking Challenge is for the day. I just glanced at my wipeboard list of ongoing “todos” (large projects that need to be done in small bites) and felt quite too overwhelmed to go on. I am suffering from a nasty head cold that kept me in bed all day yesterday once we got home from the business in town.

So many things I could be doing. So few that appeal at the moment – LOL. I might go take a few bites out of one of the larger projects while I let the hubby start dinner. When he is out of the kitchen, I am going to go deep clean the tile floors. Yes, probably small bites of larger projects is the way to go today. Maybe later I’ll draw some clip art and/or coloring pages.

moar funny pictures

Blessedbe

Summer

My first big job of they day was to download the entire Color-Your-Own.com coloring pages website in preparation for two more big jobs. Lets call them A and B under 1.

A is a major change in advertising and/or how I make a bit of money from that website. You can read a nice, long thoughtful post about that on the coloring pages blog here – and if you are interested in making money on the internet with your creative work or with affilliate marketing you might find it a bit educational. All my personal experience and YMMV of course.

B)A very nice man named Jim who runs eBook Connections.com emailed me to offer his help. He has written software that can resize and convert images into ebooks. I sent him ten images and he sent back the ebook. I printed it out. I did happy dances at how beautifully it turned out. We are now working things out to have the drawings at Color-Your-Own.com converted to ebooks divided up by subject that you can download for a nominal fee.

So – before doing either of those massive projects, I wanted to download a complete copy of the website before the big changes. This is going on as we speak. Blog. Read. Whatever.

This task has NOT been simplified by the unexplained fact that electricity at the ranch is going on and off today. I can’t begin to express, in fact, what a royal PITA this has been on several levels – not the least of which is that it is about 40 degrees outside with a north wind and the heat keeps going off and staying off…

So during an electricless period (is that a word?) I started another project here at the house. Last week we brought home my piles of art, craft, jewelry making and sewing supplies to go with the art, jewelry, and sewing supplies I got for winter solstice. There is now a vast unorganized pile of the aforementioned supplies in the living room. I have one shelf area in our bedroom devoted more or less to that sort of thing and it, too, is very unorganized and messy. So I emptied the shelf and made categorized piles (at least). They are now scattered across the bed courtesy of Ms. Pearl who is now contently asleep in the middle of them. Sometime today – probably while I am without electricity – I will attempt to put all of the supplies on the shelves in some sort of organized manner so that I can gaily make things this winter.

I made a few things last night – wanna see?

Betta Fish Coloring Page

Well, okay, first I sat back with my great new lap desk and colored with colored pencil one of the freshly printed out coloring pages – a Betta Fish.

Hematite spiral pendant

This is a hematite with a spiral pendant on a long cord. Sorry the photo is so unfocused. I wear a lot of hematite for grounding. I probably ought to be wearing this one now

man's choker necklace

I created this choker for my roommate. No telling if he will wear it. If not, I’ll probably sell it somewhere. It has a turquoise pendant and another stone I can’t remember the name of now – but the reasoning is it will bring good luck to a male wearer.

Lepidolite pendant

Sorry for the bad focus again – this lepidolite pendant with a coyote and a moon and star was meant for me. I want to put it on a choker so it can lay on my skin right below my throat, but don’t currently have the right materials and findings for that. An odd thing happened when I put it on a long chain – it began acting like a pendulum. Lepidolite is supposed to help counteract depression and I’ve used them for years. This is my last big piece. Hope I can find some more. Meanwhile, I’m not sure if this will get to be a choker or a pendulum for magic or oracular type work.

And last but hardly least – here is a photo of the snow on the Sierra Mountains at sunset a few days ago. This is the view out my back window. No wonder I love it here.

Snow on the Sierra Mountains at sunset

And now for the laughter. As you may imagine I have been a little impatient and grouchy this morning. However, while trying to be patient as the website downloads I did some blog reading and ran onto this post about a mini-drama going on over at Amazon. The comments are really the part you got to read. They are hilarious. I laughed my head off at the ones about the book’s title being a good name for a fancy show dog – because it’s so true. I feel for the author in question – but there are times when you should just walk away from Internet wars. And that time comes before you offer to sic the FBI on people who disagree with you.

So that’s what I am doing today. Hope you are still enjoying a fantastic holiday.

Oh wait – one more thing. When I’m done here I think I’m going to put up a new story and pic at Foovay’s Floozies. If you love Victoriana, or my adult fiction, or are just curious – check it out

Blessedbe

I went to visit I and the Bird blog carnival at Madras Ramblings this afternoon. The carnival is well worth a visit. Ambika did a beautiful job with poetry and photographs to grace the carnival.

However, one of the first blogs I chose to visit is Walk the Wilderness who was featured with some photos of the Streaked Weaver. From there it was off to see the photos of the Dholes, and then the Leopards, and then…and I’ve said “WOW” at least three or four times. I’ve bookmarked some pages to use to draw some coloring pages and clip art of the amazing animals he has captured. I’ve followed it, even though it is a blogspot blog and I don’t usually bother with them since I can’t get them into my Google reader where I can see them daily. Walk the Wilderness is one stunning nature photography blog. Very much worth your time to go visit – and give yourself some time because you’ll find one post after another that you just have to read and see the photos!

We got a mention in the carnival – thank you Amika – and don’t forget I get to host it on October 1st. That will be fun.

It started raining here yesterday evening and hasn’t stopped since. The weather report says half an inch – but they measure in town and not infrequently the weather out here on the Jornada is completely different. I’ll be we have had AT LEAST one inch. AT LEAST. Back before the road was paved we would have been rained in. Never mind getting over Ash Canyon. Now we have pavement out front and a spiffy new bridge over Ash Canyon. So everyone is at work and I have all kinds of peace and quiet – for another hour or so.

Yesterday I managed to procrastinate about putting the Bella Sara cards on eBay by putting up a new lens at Squidoo – Free Printable Halloween Coloring Pages and updating the Free Coloring Pages Blog a bit while I was at it.

Today I went to list the Bella Sara cards and my computer swore up and down that I don’t have a scanner attached. So I’m working on putting my Halloween and Samhain clip art back online, and from there will get to work on some Halloween coloring pages, and updating my other Halloween Squidoo lens, I love Halloween – Samhain.

Oh yeah, I updated Living with a deaf cat to add a couple of links to some new articles I found on the subject.

I am up to 50 Squidoo lenses again! So I’ll probably be doing a lot of updating there for the next couple of weeks. Yes, I’ve applied to be a Giant Squid again. Wish me luck!

Which means I have lots of work I really ought to be doing – along with a good bit of housework, too. We do seem to have resolved Mr. Wee Wee Mouses’ forays into the kitchen cabinet and towel cabinet – but I need to wash the towels one last time. BTW if you got that email that said that Bounce dryer sheets will repel mice – I’ve got to say that in our experience, the mouse laughed as he pooped on them, too.

Laters!

Summer