As a nice diversion from my morning here are some pictures from my garden over the last couple of days.
As you can see he's pretty comfortable in our backyard. In fact, he and his siblings have become playmates for our dog! It's become a pretty leisurely chase around the garden now.
We're getting so close I'm sure before I know it he'll be expecting a proper dinner invitation.
I'm pretty sure I know who is eating our tulip leaves.
This morning after two different trips to the school I sat at my kitchen table enjoying my 1st cup of coffee. I make a pot of coffee everyday the same way but some days it tastes so much better than other days. Today was one of the those better days. It's slightly dark and overcast outside as it is still drizzling with remnants from an overnight storm. I watched this visitor for a while happily munching on our dandelions.
I realized it was so noisy outside and this time it wasn't the sounds of renovations or pool pumps on overdrive as neighbours open their pools for the season. No it was noisy with birds. They seemed to be happily singing at the top of the their lungs. There was one lone voice though that could be heard above all others. Distinctive but for my untrained bird call ears I have no way of knowing what type of bird it was. It really reminded me of my childhood though. Instead of commercials for pop and fast food (well, of course we had those as well) but in addition to those we had these commercials from the National Film Board of Canada. One minute informational vignetttes on our wildlife. There was a distinctive opening which the bird call reminded me of.
I'm not sure exactly sure what programs I would have been watching to see these - Mr. Dress Up and the Friendly Giant would have been commercial free. I doubt very much it was being picked up by the american affiliates while I was watching episode after epidsode of The Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch (those were good years!). I definitely saw them all though...the beaver, the chipmunk....over and over.
Some pretty anemones in the garden. One of my favourite flowers.
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I'm quite pleased with the new template in terms of picture size. My old template was quite narrow but I am now able to increase the size of my pictures. Which I love!
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Today I am knee deep in accounting. Blah. It's my own fault. I just kept pushing it aside over the year. I mean it's not hard to pick choosing beads, twisting wire and creating over gathering receipts, plugging in numbers and other as equally boring items. Although I am quite organized with keeping all my paperwork together I'm not so dedicated to the accounting part of it. I have been trying to play catch up all year but have been easily distracted with more creative things. As a creative person I don't think that's such a bad thing! As a business owner though, and the owner of every job title that goes along with my company, I do need to keep up to date with all aspects of the business for my own sanity. Even the non-creative ones. After a full day of numbers and spreadsheets I can proudly see the light.
In moments of distraction this sweet little fellow hopped into my etsy shop. What a cutie!
I'll leave you with words of advice from my daughter: "Why don't you just update it (accounting) every week or at least every month?" Sounds like such a mom thing to say...but good advice I'll try to keep to this year. Thanks Syd. xoxo
I am a sucker for little animals. I have a real love-hate relationship going on with the little rabbit family from the neighbour's deck. They can be so destructive to my garden but I can't resist these little guys! I think they come over every afternoon not just for their garden meal but for the picture taking session. They seem to be getting quite used to me!
With all the rain that we've been having, and the grass seeds we've just applied, we haven't been able to cut the lawn for almost two weeks now. As you can see these little guys are quite pleased about this!
Yesterday, I finally had proof that there are two bunnies as they were visiting together. But too quick for me to catch in a photo. I'll just have to wait until our afternoon viewing today.
I know these rabbits can be so destructive in the garden but this sweet little baby was so cute to watch. I'm sure his family was pretty happy when we planted our new vegetable garden this year. 'What? All of this for us? Ah, you shouldn't have.' So far so good though as we do seem to be sharing it. They have helped themselves to a couple of lettuce plants but not all of them. Hopefully we can coexist happily.
Today we will get our second shipment from the farmshare that we purchased this year. It's exciting to see what vegetables we will get this week. Stay tuned...
