Ballerina Squirrel

We have a red squirrel in our backyard who is quite animated in an overly hoppy, rabid sort of way. I have named her 'Ballerina Squirrel' after Lionel Richie's song 'Ballerina Girl' (1986, "Ballerina Squirrel, you are so lovely...."). Last week, as I was enjoying my first few days of summer vacation, I was watching my backyard critters, and Ballerina Squirrel provided a lovely show. She had a huge

stick in her mouth and was hopping around the yard, finally stopping long enough to turn the stick in her little paws and play it like a flute. At this moment, I felt inspired to leave the patio and dance with her. Just then I remembered the warning on the news about an outbreak of rabies - and to avoid animals that are acting strange. Alas, this is the curse of all artists...

Amusing

A woman I do not know, found me from a highly neglected blog I started just for my art dolls.

http://trollopspeacocks.wordpress.com/

She bought one of my trollops back in the 90’s from a gallery in Illinois that I don’t have any memory of selling to (no big surprise there). The poor doll needed fixing and I said sure, I’ll give it a shot, plus I was curious about what it might look like after all this time and comparative changes in the way I play with clay now. Big change. Check out that jaw line!

Garden of the Gods

I visited the Garden of the Gods yesterday and took some pics to share...I am SO happy to be living back in Colorado Springs... truly home sweet home for me.

What's in a name

Dustin \d(u)-stin, dus-tin\ is a man's name, is pronounced DUS-tin. It is of Old German and Old English origin, and the meaning of Dustin is "brave warrior"
Reference: http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Dustin



Sure enough...
www.warriordash.com I finished in the top 2% of all entrants (then again, there were people dressed up as bumble bees wearing tu-tu's - and I think I even saw a couple Elvi(plural for Elvis') so that's not saying a whole lot .... But anyway..it was 3.2 miles, 14 obstacles finished off with a swan dive into the mud, and washed down with a fire hose shower and a warrior sized beer mug - definitely something to put on "ya'lls" bucket list.

My Garden Before the Bugs Find it

polvo chillaxin in GP

No Pat, No!

Takin' blog food back to its roots.

free range backyard turkey, magic broccoli, red delicious apple sauce.

wild caught previously frozen Norwegian sockeye salmon, super-sweet sweet

potatoes, hand-sowed green beans and brown rice, bartlet pears,

yellow spoons, purple bowl, a hand-me-down-yonder striped mush-catcher,

and a smile.

Common Names

Little Weenie Time

a crisp one dollar bill to anyone who can identify the person(s) owning two or more limbs in this picture! (Hint: taken in gulfport when lots of cousins were around.)