I took a look at my Christmas/Thanksgiving cactus this morning and was amazed at the number of buds on it that look like they might actually mature into flowers. When I look at the picture I took I see the clutter on my kitchen counter but you can see all of the buds in front of it. The first flower is almost gone but the next one is just about to open and more are warming up. Keeping my fingers crossed!
First thing this morning I caught a Downy Woodpecker on the suet cakes. You can see how frosty the grass was. It looks almost blue in the morning light. I went over to Fleet Farm for a bag of different birdseed to see if I can't slow the Sparrows down but I don't have a lot of hope. It has a lot of cracked corn, wheat, sunflower seeds, and is doused in cherry juice. I think they'll like it. We shall see.
Today's drawing is from Seuss-isms. Dr. Seuss asks if you've ever flown a kite in bed. It's hard to see the blue sky the boy in the bed is flying through but, trust me, it's blue.
And I managed to draw a gratitude journal page after supper too. I had a lot more to be grateful for today. I had a Zoom with two writing friends, stopped at Metro Market for fresh, cut up pineapple, had lunch with the St. Agnes Class of '65 (or at least a tenth of it), went to Fleet Farm for birdseed where I ran into another St. Agnes grad who hadn't been at lunch, then to Meijer for my fruit and lunch food shopping. When I got home I filled the birdfeeders but it was too late in the day for a bunch of birds to come check it out. I have faith that they'll arrive in the morning.
I have just spent more than an hour on chat and on the phone with Amazon Customer Service to no avail. I've been trying to send a document to my kindle for a week and didn't get the verifying email so I asked for help. The chat guy, at least I think it was a guy, tried and had me reboot my Kindle twice and resend the document three times. When that didn't work he sent me over to a phone call Customer Service person. She thought I was trying to send a manuscript to Kindle Direct Publishing and didn't really understand when I just wanted to email the manuscript to the Kindle device. She switched me to another rep who quickly told me that they couldn't help me and hung up. *sigh* I know that it isn't impossible because I've done it before. Why is it such a problem this time? I do not know. I'm peeved, to say the least.
--Barbara