Horizontal Snow

We got the first snow of the season today and in true Wisconsin fashion it couldn't be pretty movie snow. No, it had to be accompanied by gale-force winds that made the snow fly horizontally instead of vertically. The square green feeder was swinging wildly and a few gusts even blew so hard that the top of the feeder lifted up and clanged down when the wind slacked off. I'm very grateful that I didn't have to go out in it.

 

A couple Sparrows visited the feeder before the snow started. And one brave soul landed on it when it was being blown all over. I didn't get a decent picture of that but here's the morning bird having its daily seeds. You can just see that a few snowflakes had started to collect on top of the feeding ports on the feeder.

 

I hauled up the electric slicer and sliced up both loaves of onion bread. The slices are so even I can stack them up vertically and then just slide a gallon zipper bag over them and seal them up. Slick. 

 

I had so much fun painting those watercolor Christmas postcards yesterday that I jumped back in this morning and painted a bunch more. I'm not sure I want to mail them because the one time I mailed a watercolor postcard the post office's machinery scraped off part of the picture. Maybe I've got envelopes they'll fit in? I'll check.

 

While the postcards dried I wrote today's words. 1,553 of them which took me over 50,000 for the month. I'll keep going until the 30th to see how far I get and so that I'll have written every day of the challenge. Once I had the words written I caught up on reading emails that I've let slide for a few days. I seem to get a lot of emails. Do you too?

 

I couldn't resist painting a couple more postcards. I posted the morning's efforts on Instagram along with the ones from yesterday. I'm having fun doing this. But I wish that Meta's algorithm would let me see other things besides people painting Christmas cards. That's all it's showing me. Gah! Maybe if I called Jeff Bezos. Do you have his number?

 

Alexa told me I had two packages delivered at lunchtime. I was expecting one and couldn't figure out what the other one was. It was the five copies of Open for Business I ordered on Nov. 13.  According to the email order acknowledgement they were supposed to arrive December 3 with the additional copies of Christmas at Seaview, which it turns out I probably don't need but it's probably too late to cancel. I just went on the order and told them to cancel them and they said they'd email me if it was possible. *shrug* Anyway, I got Open for Business signed, stickered, and bookmarked and put them into the pile with the few remaining copies. 

 

Today's drawing figures were Snowman & Mittens. I can draw those. I made the snowman big for some reason but that's okay. and I made the mittens small. Oh well.

 

I also drew a gratitude journal page for today. I am most grateful for not having to go out driving in that terrible wind.

 

According to my phone's weather prediction it's supposed to snow on Saturday for our second to last vendor show. I am not looking forward to having to haul my table, chair, and all the other things in the snow but I guess I will if I have to. Maybe I'll wear boots.

-- Barbara