A Catch-UP Blog Post for Today

Hi everyone.....I hope you are all well and enjoying your week.

I've been playing catch-up here with many different projects. It seems like as soon as I finish and cross off one "to-do" item I add 4 more. The list keeps growing!

I did finish the gourd birdhouse I was planning. I love how it turned out. It has that nice "natural" look. I will be making a green, blue and orange one pretty much the same as this berry colored one soon.

I listed this house on Etsy today. I've been letting Etsy go more than I wanted. I need to start listing some more items soon. Before you know it fall will be upon us and that is when Etsy customers start purchasing. All the sellers need to have their inventory listed and ready to go. Things go FAST in the fall.

This is a close up of the beads I hand sewed on to the thatched roof. I wanted a nice simple touch and I think this is perfect.

Onto the rugs..... it took 3 days and 3 separate packages to finally get our rugs but the wait was worth it. They are incredibly gorgeous and thick! I love walking in the bare feet on these rugs. It's so soothing.

Here is a picture of one of the areas. I really like the hand cut beveled edges to the design.

This is a larger shot of the pattern. The burgundy is so rich.....LOVE IT!

It was also bath time for two little stinky doggies this week. They have so much fun in the yard but they were getting a little dirty with the sand and stain from the privacy fence. Sadie is our Brittany and she is in the tub with me. She was the first victim. Gretchen, our German Shorthaired Pointer, was right by her side giving her moral support! When Sadie was done Gretchen jumped right in and waited for me to lather her up. GSP's just LOVE water!

For some reason this week was a strange "nature" week in our yard. I had gone in the master bedroom to put away laundry when I heard this strange rustling on the deck attached outside our doorwall in the room. We have a copper bird feeder hanging there and I had just assumed the rustling was just a few birds feeding. My husband and I had just made a run to Costco to get more bird food earlier that morning but hadn't filled any of our feeders yet. This rustling continued and started to sound very dramatic so I looked around the side edge of the deck and found this horrible sight....yes a little sparrow who had completely forced his head between the copper metal edge (squirrel proof feeder) and could not get back out. He was reaching for a little seed way inside. Poor little guy!

I ran and got my husband who slowly pried the prongs of the copper surround gently away from his little neck. It was just awful to see this little guy so scared. I pet his back during the "surgery" and once my husband Tom got the surround out of the plastic feeder tub the bird layed on his side with it around his neck. I honestly thought that the bird has struggled so hard that his little neck had broken but Tom said "I don't think so. He'll be ok". As soon as he said that the sparrow pulled his head out and off he flew. He left so fast I couldn't even get a picture. Hmmm.....I wonder if he'll come back and feed here again or if he's done with this feeder and going to a neighbors for a safer dinner!

This guy here is just a really cool moth that landed on our deck light. I had to take a picture of him. His black and white colors were just beautiful. He stayed on this light from dawn til dusk the same day and then off he flew. Pretty cool moth!

Well I think I'm all caught up now. I'm off to make dinner and then tomorrow I'm starting some cards.

Enjoy your night all!

Darlene