Uh, Excuse Me

Look at what I saw when I glanced out the patio door this afternoon. A squirrel was inside the square green birdfeeder! Inside it! The roof of the feeder doesn't sit firmly on top so I guess it was only a matter of time before one of those darned tree rats figured it out. I chased it out and tried to make the roof fit tightly on the feeder. I don't know how long my fix will last.

 

I was lucky enough to see a Chickadee sit still long enough to have a picture taken. A blurry picture, but you can see what kind of bird it is. They don't usually sit still long enough for a portrait.

 

The leaf blower and lawn mower guy came today. I was surprised he came because it rained last night but I guess they don't care. He made a lot of noise waving the leaf blower around to get the leaves onto the lawn so he could mow them up and he made quite a few passes around the yard. He even picked up the little sticks and stems that were left behind by the fall cleanup crew last Saturday. You see how many leaves there were. Now the lawn looks like a green carpet. There's a tidy pile of grass clippings, leaves, and sticks at the curb for the city guys to pick up next time they come around.

 

Today's drawing prompt was People Watching. First I drew the lawn mower guy which turned out not so great. Then I decided to draw myself from an old picture I found the other day and printed out. The picture is of me and my late friend Lala up at The Clearing when we first met in around 2007. I only drew me. The drawing's not bad.

 

I got to do the school run this afternoon so I made time before supper to draw a gratitude journal page about it. I couldn't figure out how to draw the squirrel in the feeder so I drew it on the feeder. You get the idea, right?

 

After supper I wanted to try painting fir trees with a fan brush like the watercolor teacher showed us so I taped a piece of not-so-great paper to a plexiglass board and tried my hand at it. I decided to make a winter scene with a nice dark blue sky, a snowy field, and fir trees. It didn't turn out too badly.

 

I spent time today setting up the payment account info and uploading The Seaview audiobook to a new site and working my way slowly through everything they want to know. One thing I did was buy some ISBN numbers to add to my audiobooks. I need to figure out if I can change the free Amazon ISBNs on my published books or if I have to republish them. I suspect I have to start over and republish them. Although if I remember correctly only the paperbacks have ISBNs now so maybe I can just add them to the eBooks and audiobooks. Something to look into. There's so much to think about!

--Barbara