ok so a minor set back

with my arm, ice is my best friend
rachel said maybe this could be 'tennis' elbow from wood, water and knitting etc.....could be
it hurts AGAIN.

tomorrow is the first of my 4 yearly cleanings at the dentist, followed by surgery i think next month
i am sort of looking forward to it and yet i am sort of not.
things do feel better afterwards (after a few days that is)
so before i get to the dentist i will do my town errands
i hope i remember to anyway
bank, big lots, ribbon store, post office.


i want to make some small ornaments and some small stuffed toys.....i haven't made a stuffed animal in a while.
rabbits come to mind
and for some odd reason.....pigs......in breeches and morning coats
i don't know why
possibly a fox in a red hunting coat
and a few things in spun cotton
so i ordered spun cotton off ebay, from what i can see it's just like the way i wrap my inner wired doll bodies before i sew the cloth over the padding and attach the porcelain parts


yesterday, thaddeaus sat on a cake that was on the table..... he was trying to get to the little chick ornaments on the tree.......we've forgiven him today, however while he was being ignored he was pitifully woeful.
oh the boy suffered so.
this morning he spent almost all morning all OVER me..... so grateful to be talked to again
it had gotten bad, as he hates to be ignored at all..he puked in front of the bathroom door!
(cause he sucked his tail due to being ignored........he's a strange one i swear)

meanwhile i got a chicken who crows like a rooster every damn time she lays an egg (and sometimes when she doesn't lay an egg)
a duck who thinks she is a chicken
a cat who swears he is a boy
another cat who thinks she is a princess for real......( and loves pretty sparkly stuff)
i had a sheep who thought he was a goat........
a dog who KNEW she was a little girl.....
i wonder why on earth we have all these delusional animals?

and i still wonder why, the cat sat in the cake........
did the squirrels pay him? cause the squirrels did ultimately get that cake.....

it's warmer out....but still cold enough to run the woodstove..........
however now i can not only sleep in.....but clean it when i wander down here
it's so nice to see through the window on the door again..... during the really coldest parts of the winter that window gets a big ashed up, and doesn't get cool enough to throughly clean it.

in budgie news.....estella is driving me nuts
i fill all the seed cups and she runs right over and throws all the seed out........ on the floor of the cage, below the grill
i swear if she wasn't such a pretty yellow bird (and i've wanted a yellow budgie for YEARS AND YEARS*** so much so that i painted a plastic budgie YELLOW) i would give her away.....
we go through pounds of seed a week that way
gee thanks estella
see if i get you a pip any time soon
the other budgies seem to be all doing their little budgie thing..... happily interacting, playing with each other and their toys....
chattering and chirping happily...... this year's easter budgies will be little boys...then we are done with getting budgies as the cage which is large enough for 6, will have 6
(and that is a very BIG flight)
i am going to move them for the summer though, and also relocate them next winter...... this whole side of the studio is getting revamped.

ok well that's about it for me
hope you folks are all ok
and you folks from new zealand, how's the recovery going over there?
please if you can, post and let us know how you all are
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