Just to make a liar out of me, a Junco landed on the square green feeder today. I've only seen them on the ground before and was confident that they were solely ground feeders. But no, one had to fly up to the perch and look around. I'm not sure if it pecked at the seed but it was up there where no Junco had been before (that I'd seen).
And a House Finch landed on the top of a crook. It didn't sample any of the suet or the seed, it just waited there for the female which was on the back of the square green feeder. When she flew away, he did too.
This morning I got out the good old Elmer's glue and got to work gluing the embossed painting pieces I prepared yesterday onto blank cards. But first I autographed each little painting piece with my official artist signature--bam.
Once I got them all glued, I stacked them and gently put a heavy cookbook on top of them to make sure that they glued themselves to the cards and stayed flat. Tomorrow I'll fold them and tuck them into a cellophane sleeve with an envelope so I'm ready whenever a card-needing occasion happens.
This afternoon the Avery business card blanks I ordered were delivered so I tucked a sheet into the printer, crossed my fingers, and printed some. It worked! Even though the blank looked the same as the one I had, the words stayed inside the boundaries of the little cards. Now I have sales tally cards to use this year. It only took me three days, a lot of strong language, and one Amazon order to accomplish the task.
I also read a book today. An actual, paper book. I haven't done that in a long time, but I had this book by a local author laying around, and finally got around to reading it, or at least starting to read it. It's pretty good. Feels weird though, not listening to it or reading it on my phone.
--Barbara
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