EMERGENCY 2nd BLOG OF THE DAY!!!!!!

While cooking myself a delicious veggie sausage for lunch today, I looked out the window to find a little bird feeding off the seeds I recently put out for them. I mounted it right near the window so it is quite close. I very slowly went to my camera... and look what I got!!!!!! If you click on the pics, the big Pictures look a lot better. Pretty cute huh?





I used this book to figure out that they are Pine Siskins. I named this one Barney.


And then!!!!! I look out in to the yard and there was this adorable Scrub Jay! He was hard to get. They jump around all over the place, and well my camera doesn't have the best zoom. So here is what I got. This sneaky little fellow is one of many that loyally live on this property. They tend to live in the same area for long periods, and they have long relationships with one other bird, for years at a time. Fascinating, well it is to me.
CLICK ON THE PIC!!!!! Enjoy!

In which there is a big announcement

So big news, we are going to move back to Spokane. After we find jobs of course. I guess I couldn't live away from my family forever. I don't really yearn to be in the city of Spokane, at all, but I am really looking forward to being back. Plus things are feeling a little stagnant these days and a change like this would be good for us.

Well we got the car. Thank god! Better gas millage FTW! It isn't the prettiest car in the world, but it sure fits our lifestyle!

Here is Yuffi and Jeffery Enjoying some video games.
And here is Yuffi sleeping like a little fawn.

We have had a couple nice days in the past week or so. But the rain is going to be back this week. So I went outside today with the pup and took some pictures of all the pretty flowers and plants that are blooming. They are on the right --------> And towards the top of the page. CLICK ON THE PICS TO SEE BIG ONES!!! Aren't the lilies pretty? And the tulips are here! I could not stop taking pictures!

Work is going pretty well, I really love all the things I learn about old crap. We have a "cleaning party" ....Sounds like an oxymoron.... this Wednesday. It is a potluck and I get paid to eat, drink and clean old crap. But I need to bring dessert. Oh boy.... Well I don't cook very well, so we will see what happens. I really want to make "tartlets", but I think it is only because I like the name. I looked online for some recipes, and found a chocolate one, so I think I will try that. I will report back on that one.

I haven't been reading enough. At all. TV has kinda taken over a bit. But not regular TV. We got Netflix and they let you watch from your computer, and NBC.com lets me watch episodes too. In fact I am watching "30 Rock" as I write this. So crap, too much TV. I think it is all too freaking funny. I know that people talk bout how TV can rot your brain, but I think I am just going through a phase. Oh well.

I made this pin cushion last night. It is in honor of Arbor and Earth day. He is a branch from a tree that got cut down to make fliers for the arbor day celebration in Olympia, that were all over the place in Oly the other day. He does not find the irony funny.

In Which Spring Is Here For A Day

I know it has been long but, I am back. I apologize for the lack of communication, but as you may have noticed, I do that.

It is so WARM today! SO SUNNY! What a nice surprise. We tried to go to a park and hike around a bit, but Yuffi puked in the car and it isn't quite ours yet, so we just went home. OH! We MAY be getting this car. It is a Subaru Legacy Wagon. We are testing it for the weekend to see if we want to trade it for or Explorer. We met these people on craigslist.com and they want a bigger car and I want a smaller car, so it is a good match. So if all goes well, this will be ours.

So all of my sprouts died. Super sad. They were growing too tall because the light wasn't enough, so I put them outside when it was sunny, but I guess it was too cold so they all wilted. So here is the next attempt at sprouting some plants on my own. I know it looks weird, but I think the glass tubes will help, and I got a new light. One of the sunflower seeds has sprouted, so we will see. the other thing in there is Chinese Lanterns. They are supposed to have big red leaves, and I think that will be really pretty.

So my garden outside is coming together slowly. Here are my tulips. I really love tulips. Especially red ones because I remember when I was a kid, in the spring I was amazed at the tulips that came back every year no matter what my parents did to the garden. There were yellow ones and really pretty red ones. So they have fascinated me ever since. The other things in there, well I can't remember what they are, but they get really tall stems in the middle of the bushy part with little dainty flowers on top. Really nice. You can see that they are pretty bushy already, even though they had been trampled on by the neighbor dog numerous times.

Here is Puma in the window, I just thought it was cute. The cats LOVE the fact that we have no screens in our house. We do not.
You may be wondering how the cats are doing with Yuffi. Well, kind of better. Damacy really tries to lay with her, but she flails around too much. She is always flipping her long collie nose around. She has actually hurt me a few times. But Puma chases her. Bad. She yips and runs from him, but she asks for it when she puts her collie nose in his face. Puma is REALLY scary when he is mad. Hence the name. And she is way too puppy to understand to leave that kitty alone! She is really giving me a hard time lately. She doesn't listen when it is time to come back inside after being out. So she goes to the neighbors yard and either poops, or worse, eats others poo. Horrible habit! And she doesn't listen anymore when you tell her no. She only responds when you are either walk at her or running at her and just when you can touch her she jumps away and runs where ever she wants. Really frustrates me! Anyway, she is young as Jeffery keeps reminding me. and all this will go away in the next few years.

Here is a pic of Jeffery and I. I just found it on his phone, thought I would share. It is a little blurry, but, I thought it gave it a little appeal.



Ta ta for now.