you know i started to miss you guys

when you don't check in..... flicka i was wondering about you too...
and angie, and a few others.
i wonder if i am co-dependent? ***columbine from last spring, i got it bad i think***
ok now as i type this, it is thursday afternoon, it's nice   out....and i am sitting at the computer, what is WRONG with this picture?

i did find some paper and some kindling outside and made up two paper/kindling packets for the woodstove, one for tonight and one for tomorrow AM.
they are sitting on my stone cold stove (it is stone and it is cold)
meanwhile i have the back door open, the radio on (that is a rare occurrence, normally the only sounds around here are animal sounds or me talking to them)
and the budgies are singing to the car commercials (huh?)

i spent about two hours with the ducks, watching them graze, bath, and in the case of falstaff, try unsuccessfully to get some nookie on the side.....
i have no idea what to make for supper and i am painting a really crappy halloween inspired painting on the crappy paper just to keep painting
i really want to be doing that black and white.......so i really should just get to it
OR
i should block out a halloween painting like i block out a duck painting and give it my all
that would make too much sense huh?
and i decided i want a glass of lemonade!
i should go to town, jen invited me to coffee at the bookstore tomorrow
i said no
i got it bad i think
yet i would really like to go book shopping and have a coffee at the cafe there, not to mention scope out the budgies at the pet store not even three stores away....( where i saw the yellow keet)
but i really can't afford it, now that i know what our taxes are for this year to pay, followed by homeowners/car insurance..... then firewood
oh man
i also need to make a few new pockabooks (that's jersey for handbag or purse)
and i need to plant more........ much more
oh i let the ducks scrounge around in the sleeping garden, and discovered i got garlic and onions coming up
the onions are multiplier onions, so i have to dig them, harvest the big ones and replant the smaller ones
i may still have a walking onion there too, i hope so

in knitting, i ripped that scarf out i was working on and screwed up. i am about to wind off some cashmere/silk/merino blend to knit up with beads. may as well, since i can't stop thinking of that one.....so i'll start it and the one i ripped, will eventually have beads in another incarnation.....

i realized that i should also be working on the paper doll series i started last year, they need their clothes done yet. i am going to sell them.....they'll be available on etsy eventually.....
along with i think posters that are backgrounds or little setting for them to 'live' in
i want them to be really really well printed on very good heavy coated stock, something you would be proud to give to a very special little girl (or i would be proud to give to a special little girl)
there are a few of them,  and their bodies are all the same size and in the same position so that all the clothes are interchangeable. they are also all different ethnicities..... cool huh?
i did have fun with them, and i need to paint their clothes on overlays- that makes it so much easier for me and more accurate as well.
ok it's now 8pm, and bernie is of course not home yet, he went to alpha and i told him that there was an issue with rt 78 but i suppose he didn't listen, he's also to stop at the store on the way, (normally he calls when he gets into town, no call........no bernie)
good thing we are having sandwitches for supper.
today i was able to sit with my ducks without getting barked at......!!!!!
amazing huh?
if you heard this dog bark you would understand. the dog barking at momma duck
ok there is a link to some really BAD video with audio of that dog barking, it actually went on for over 20 minutes nonstop......it give us headaches.......there are three there and two of them do this, it used to be constant

wow!!! bernie just walked it! not too bad, and i think he got me a newspaper to burn tonight and tomorrow to start the woodstove

ok we can't light the stove, it's too warm and i can't get it going.....i'll try in the morning
night all