Q-2 - Paper Posse

Ahhhh, finally some quiet in my home and maybe some energy to actually go and create. In-laws on their way back to their apartment with DH. With how I've been feeling it has been really hard to have 2 more people in our home, 83 & 84 and their small yappy dog. So much noise in the house yesterday from the TV on etc made my IBS worse this morning.

It's not all bad though, new planters especially for this home, three hanging baskets--two in the summer for the upstairs and fuchsias for outside my craft room under the deck in the shade. I finally live in a state I can grow fuchsias. Planted three pots of wave petunias as well as a hibiscus tree and a dahlia.

We've been enjoying the hummingbirds return and just got an oriole feeder--it has been very popular with at least 8 pairs visiting this morning.

What kind of birds are in your part of the woods?

Anyone do anything scrappy this weekend? I put together a 3 layout page kit from SG. Haven't figured out pictures for them yet, but it felt good to play. And it won't take long to finish them up. I need to figure out my points. I haven't been doing a very good job of keeping track so far this month.

Another day, and no mojo to craft . . . lots of rain too! Maybe tomorrow?

Crashing your thread again

Our area is very thin on cool birds. I heard that NJ is the best bird watching state and Washington is one of the worst. When we traveled to Olympic National Park a few years back the ONLY birds we saw on the whole trip were robins! So weird. It's a bird desert here. 

We have all the basics like seagulls and crows, starlings and sparrows. I like the scrub jays, which we see more than the Stellars Jays, which I learned are not the same thing as blue jays even though most people call them blue jays. We have little ground feeding juncos twittering around in our yard a lot, parents feeding their baby. I'm pretty sure the nest was in my neighbor's driveway wall or under her eaves. My other neighbors have hummingbird feeders but I just keep my garden full of flowers they like, so we see them year round - even in January they have food when the rosemary blooms.

We do see a lot of red tailed hawks on the freeway edges, and I almost forgot that we see bald eagles on the daily at times! That's pretty cool. I love it when the seagulls and crows fight the eagles in midair. And there's a major cormorant breeding ground under a bridge nearby, and a population of peregrine falcons and ospreys too! We're at an interesting intersection of urban, rural, and marine.

I was going to ask who is being deafened by cicadas? My friend in Illinois is sending me daily updates. She got landed on yesterday, and has curtailed outdoor walks. I miss the sound of normal cicadas in the summer. In NZ they were lovely (as long as they didn't land on you!)

I guess WA does have cicadas but they're all annual ones and it looks like they might be found more in the north-eastern part of the state. Everyone is talking about the other cicadas and the other Washington so my search results aren't very helpful.

My youngest has really gotten into bird watching lately so funny you all brought it up! Each day after we go out to take care of the animals we go on a walk through our paths to find birds. His favorite is finding a matching pair of mommies and daddies.

I’ve been working on the different classes I’ve taken lately. Just about finished up with all three but still have bits and pieces to do. I took the Pinkfresh scrapbooking, crop and create and then the simple stories fresh air album class. They were all good but now I’ve been eyeing new supplies to make card which I hadn’t before.

I did get to go to a scrapbook store IRL yesterday after an appointment. It’s about an hour away so that was fun and tad overwhelming! It had a good selection though not complete collections which I found odd. So she had all the papers as single sheets but not necessarily any stickers sheets or other embellishments. So though I bought some things I’ll need to order the other things I want online. For those that have stores nearby is that normal?

Good Morning! I am typing with one hand and a cat on my arm lol. Thanks for the heads up on the double points and challenges Linda. I'll check them out.

I haven't had much scrapping going on, I am *this* close to finishing a one pager I've been slowing working on for a couple of weeks. I want to finish that and get it posted this weekend as well. And make a last push to meet more of the challenges before the quarter is over.

Today will be regular Saturday stuff - cleaning, groceries, etc. I have a gift card to a shop downtown. I'm going to go check that out and pop in and suprise DS2 at his job (he works in a pizza shop). After that no idea what the rest of the day will bring.