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September 30, 2007
Dig out that Halloween stuff...
Yeah...yeah...I'm up here looking at the halloween totes and getting geared up to go thru them...we have more halloween stuff than Christmas (maybe cause we don't have kids? I think we just enjoy the spookiness of it more...who knows...), and its rather daunting to go thru it...but I want to put stuff out this year...last year we hadn't settled into the house quite by now, we still had our house in Austin for sale and there was a fair amt of stress going on...so I put out 3 lighted pumpkins and we left it at that...but this year, things are actually quite good, little to no stress in the house and I'm ready to go shopping in the attic...we don't have much outside electricity, next year we'll get that fixed, so this year we have to be choosy as to what we plug in...I know we have plenty of other non-lit stuff to put out there..
Its still hot as it can be, in the 90's and I heard yesterday that our heat index was in the 100's last week...did I complain about that here? no...I've been suffering in silence...I'm ready to move somewhere cooler, though...any day...cooler...any....day....
Last night we counted 20 monarch caterpillars on the milkweed...and that was just a quick run by, we didn't really turn each leaf and look at each plant...i found another one in the backyard this morning...I know they won't all hatch, but its nice to imagine we'll have a good crop in the next few weeks..just in time for them to migrate to Mexico...
The spider has been on the end of our porch now for how long? 3 weeks? maybe more...I lose track...I look for her each morning, as I really like her...today, she was missing, which always concerns me...I found her, upside down hanging from the house..I dunno if she's doing ok or not...how long do orb weavers live? not as long as the tarantulas that I used to have...but still, maybe she can feel the change in the air coming...her egg sac that she left 2 weeks ago also is looking different...I can't wait till it hatches...I saw a monarch crawling up there this morning, I guess to turn into a chrysalis...our house is a popular place for the bugs and I love it!
The hummingbirds are still coming around, they have discovered the mexican sage and are drinking from it every day...I had cut back the firecracker plant and now its put on new flowers for the fall...the mystic spires are coming up again as well, i cut them down to the ground in August...so the fall garden is coming along...I'm still keeping an eye on the pecans, I see some of the first ones on the ground, but I expect the big explosion to come in the next couple of weeks...
I have been reading some other blogs and it looks like a few beadmakers are 'hitting creative walls' so to speak...some are going back to other jobs, others are taking breaks from Etsy and eBay, others are just quitting beadmaking altogether...sometimes ya just gotta do what ya gotta do and I say more power to ya...
Posted by Donner at September 30, 2007 12:23 PM