We Haz a Sad

 April's second son with Oliver has passed away. He lived in Texas.  RIP Azizi.  So sorry April and Oliver.

https://www.wesh.com/article/zoo-calf-of-april-the-giraffe-azizi-dies/34514107

Finally We Win

 

Who Needs an Easy Christmast Gift

 https://misswish.com/diy-gifts-in-a-jar?fbclid=IwAR2C5U44WdFWv39IXAeyFfqhG5jwoClzj7i9WCgKdnG7AOgMFZpdCG5y6OI

 I saw this on Facebook and thought some of them are pretty easy and everyone always needs one of those last minute gifts. You can buy jars through the year when they go on sale and make some up to have on hand.  I see several I am going to make.

 

 

Going to the World Series

 OH how I wish I could go to just one game but alas I can't so I will just have to watch the game on TV>  The Dodgers are going to the WS again. Let's home this year we can win.  It is time.

Hello God

 

Me: Hello God.

God: Hello...

Me: I’m falling apart. Can you put me back together?

God: I'd rather not.

Me: Why?

God: Because you're not a puzzle.

Me: What about all the pieces of my life that fall to the ground?

God: Leave them there for a while. They fell for a reason. Let them be there for a while and then decide if you need to take any of those pieces back.

Me: You don't understand! I'm breaking!

God: No, you don't understand. You're transcending, evolving.

What you feel are growing pains. You're getting rid of the things and people in your life that are holding you back. The pieces are not falling down. The pieces are being put in place. Relax. Take a deep breath and let those things you no longer need fall down. Stop clinging to pieces that are no longer for you. Let them fall. Let them go.

Me: Once I start doing that, what will I have left?

God: Only the best pieces of yourself.

Me: I'm afraid to change.

God: I keep telling you: YOU'RE NOT CHANGING! YOU'RE BECOMING!

Me: Becoming, Who?

God: Becoming who I created you to be! A person of light, love, charity, hope, courage, joy, mercy, grace and compassion. I made you for so much more than those shallow pieces you decided to adorn yourself with and that you cling to with so much greed and fear. Let those things fall off you. I love you! Don't change! Become! Don't change! Become! Become who I want you to be, who I created. I'm gonna keep telling you this until you remember.

Me: There goes another piece.

God: Yes. Let it be like this.

Me: So... I'm not broken?

God: No, but you're breaking the darkness, like dawn. It's a new day. Become!! Become who you really are!!"

Cotton Candy Sunrise

 Today was a cotton candy sunrise, the pink glow across the city was just gorgeous.  Don't blink cos it is a fleeting scene but I managed to get a few pictures.

Trees

 

Bright yellow, red and orange,

The leaves come down in hosts;

The trees are Indian princes,

But soon they'll turn to ghosts.

–William Allingham (1824–89)

Happy 8th Birthday

 Seems like you just helped yourself to living in my house a few days ago but here you are in for about a year and a half now.  I am glad you chose my house to live in.

Where Are They?

 

D35 is still enjoying east central Minnesota, although she has made her way a little south from Princeton/Cambridge to the Elk River area, passing within a mile of our Great River Energy peregrine falcon nestbox. Breezy and Brooklyn could have easily seen her from their vantage point high atop their new nest pole! Unsurprisingly, she's also spent some time at the large landfill on the north end of town. We might cringe a bit at the idea, but the landfill is rich in food resources and has a very distinct footprint from on high. Perhaps she saw other birds circling and wanted to check it out! Vultures are known to track bald eagles in search of a meal, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if eagles did the same.

D27 is back in Decorah, just a few miles south of the hatchery! She and D36 haven't crossed paths that we know: they've been in similar places, but not at similar times. She's hanging out in Bald Eagle paradise (Decorahdise?) - plenty of steeply folded hills, cold trout creeks, and wide open pastures for soaring. We hope to get a chance to go look for her this week!

How about D36? Everyone's favorite little homebody continues to hang out in the Decorah area, although he's made trips as far south as Claremont and as far north as Harmony, Minnesota. We just missed seeing him, since he left the hatchery area two days before we started camera work! Brett writes: "After D-36’s loop trek from Bluffton to Strawberry Point to north of Decorah on the Upper Iowa River, he has shifted northwest just across the IA/MN border where he is at peace just south of Harmony, MN." We hope he enjoys it!

To date, D35 has traveled about 611 miles, D36 has traveled about 499 miles, and D27 has traveled an incredible 12,358 miles - although she has had a little over three years to do it! We wish all of our eagles favorable winds and fair skies. Stay fierce and fly high!

What To Do

 I have wanted a life size skeleton for Halloween to dress up and put in the window.  While I would love to hang it outside we have a little thief in the block who thinks everything belongs to her.  So it would have to be in the house somewhere.  I am not paying the price they want so I have gone to plan B.  Yesterday at work they had these mannequins priced from $80-$100 for only $30.  Because I work I get a 20% discount.  So I picked this up.  I want to do something for Halloween with it, but have not decided what yet.  So off to Pinterest to look for some costume ideas and see what I can come up with or I may work on it all year long and put it up for next year. I am thinking maybe in the corner window in the living room with some lights so those who drive through can see him.

So I popped over to Pinterest to see what costumes they might have and Medussa kept popping up. I have a head that can be redone with a black wig and makeup and I have a snake wreath that I can incorporate into the outfit. I know it is a male mannequin but who cares?

Wrens

 I love the wrens.  I rarely see them but this morning the tom cat was in the sitting room and started attacking the window.  There is a hole in the screen by a tree scratching that I am going to remove and the poor thing got in between the screen and window.  So I put the cats up and opened the window hoping I could grab him, nope he flew to the dining room and tried to fly out the window then into the kitchen into 2 windows and finally landed on top of the fridge. I could see he was stunned as his eyes were closed and he let me pick him up with a fight. I carried him out the deck rail and put him down and petted him and talked to him. He finally opened his eyes and sat for a minute and flew off. I hope he will be ok, isn't he gorgeous?

You Never Know What You Are Going to FInd

 Friday at Scraps I did a lot of shelf stocking as Saturdays are busy, so you need plenty of merchandise for customers to buy.  Plus my boss was not there so I just stocked shelves.  I saw so many patterns that I wore in High School.  While I did not wear my dresses this short, my father would never have allowed that, I did wear maxis, this one is 1971 and was only $1.00 which was expensive in those days.

At the checkout there is a box of free magazines, well this is not a magazine but they gave it to me for free cos it was in the box. I would have gladly paid for it. It is men's socks from 1953, there are several I will make and there is one vest pattern in there as well. I wonder if my dad wore socks like this.  The book has $.50 on it for the price.

I love working here for a few hours a week, it is like being in my grandmother's sewing room and you never know what you are going to find.  You can tell by the contents of each box I unpack and price and set out what generation the person donating was from. 

Halloween Season has officially begun