Not Fast Enough

I was pouring my Cheerios this morning when I looked out the kitchen window and saw an Indigo Bunting on top of the suet cakes feeder. I dropped everything and sidled over to the table, laid my hand on the camera, and it flew away. Dang it. I watched and watched but didn't see it come back so I had to go into the photo archives for this picture of one. It wasn't sunny this morning but this is what I've got. In the Audubon Backyard bird book it said that Indigo Buntings are just passing through so I don't expect to see one again.

 

The Orioles showed up as usual. He was on the crook again. It's where he flies to once he's done with the grape jelly. He sits up there for about a minute, fluffs his feathers, and takes off.

 

She's more restrained. Today she worked hard to get bites from the orange half. This morning when I opened the curtains the orange half was in the jelly so I went out and put it back. Who moved it? Haven't got a clue.

 

For all of you who ordered Girl Scout cookies from LC here's something that she earned with her sales of 850 boxes (a number I can barely comprehend). It's a custom pair of Converse sneakers--pink with flowers and stars, a turquoise tongue with oranges on it, and glitter shoelaces and soles. Very gorgeous!

 

First thing this morning I finished the watercolor I started yesterday. It's supposed to be apple blossoms but I think they're too dark and aren't pink enough. I like them and the way they turned out but they're not exactly right. Not that it matters. They look good.

 

Both baby bunnies were nibbling away under the feeders this afternoon. They're not so little anymore. One of them usually races across the patio and the other one kind of galumphs across stopping to look around. Flash and Bobo, that's what I call them.

 

I finished listening to Spies Don't Retire audiobook files this afternoon and I only had six revisions to send back to the producer. She did an awesome job and I look forward to getting the corrections back and giving final approval to the audiobook. Then ACX/Audible will spend a few days sending it through their approval system before it's available.

 

This afternoon I picked up the poster I had printed at Office Max. I love it! It looks so professional and it'll look great on display next to my books. I was gazing at it, happy that I'd have it for my book signing on the 7th and then it hit me. It says on the poster "Available on Amazon," not what I want it to say when I'm trying to sell books at a bookstore. So I quickly emailed KM and asked her to redo that part of the poster to say "Available online and at select independent bookstores." Much more politically correct, don't you think? It wasn't too expensive to have the poster printed on foam board and it only took a day. I'm so glad I noticed that one little thing before it was too late. I don't want to offend people who have been so supportive of my writing and publishing.

 

Tonight was OJ's first soccer game of the season and, of course, it was cool, damp, and drizzly this evening. They didn't win, not that they officially keep score, but the other team was much bigger and looked more experienced. I was pretty chilled when I got home so I made some hot chocolate to sip while I drew a gratitude journal page for today. Mm, hot chocolate.

 

This morning I looked up the incubation period for turkeys. 28 days! I don't know how long she's been there but it's been at least a week since I saw her in the neighbor's yard. Twenty-eight days is a long time to sit on eggs, I think. And it said that the tom turkey doesn't help so she's stuck there for the duration. 

That's it for me today. I wrote the June 1 writing progress email this morning and spent a little time thinking about what to put on Substack next week. I'm thinking I'll pull out a much longer story and publish it in two or three sections. I did want to say, if you read my Substack posts and like them, there's a tiny little heart way at the bottom you can click on to let me know that you "like" them. It'd be fun to see more "likes." Thanks.

--Barbara