If I told you what I’ve been going through this past month, you would likely unsubscribe here, so we won’t go into the gruesome details at this point. It’s really not relevant to the topics I post about here on the blog. Just know that it has bitten into the time I have been able to spend here and in the studio and that it shall pass, eventually. The best I can do here for now, is to speak about it metaphorically (the last post is an example).

So I begin THIS post with some fun stuff- a squirrelly girl is back. Has been for a while. She is showing up regularly for some walnuts, Fruit and water and appears to have taken up residence in the palm tree-as squirrelly girls are likely to do. I think I’d like to join her up there.

She’s been obviously nursing in the recent past but I’m guessing that at this point in the year the youngsters have all left the nest. She was seen and heard the other day from way up high in the palm tree chattering like crazy and when I went out to see what was going on, there was Kuro the cat on the garage roof pacing around. He can never outsmart a squirrel, knows it (and so do they), but it’s a fun game they play.

Here is the current front porch atmosphere with only the one up on the column being mine (Kuro). The neighbor kitties spend a lot of time here though. Some, most of their time as there is a great cool, secret garden to relax and hide out in out front. School kids stop to pet those that will allow it (mainly one of them) on their way home. I talked to one boy who always looks for them and he told me he loves cats. He can’t have one as his family is allergic so he befriends the locals. We talked a bit more and I discovered he is in the 6th grade, his name is Leo, and he plays the sax in the school band. I was instantly smitten! I’m probably the strange old cat lady to him! Ha!

It’s back in the 90’s this week but we are thankful for cool evenings. The cactus fruit high up is ripening out of reach to the delight of the birds AND squirrelly girl. BUT, we were lucky to get a first Dragon Fruit on the fairly new dragon fruit cactus that was grown from a small cutting gifted me a few years ago. It was so beautiful and tasty! Did I post photos of the flower here? I can’t remember so adding one here. Sometimes I forget where online I post certain things.

Here’s a little gallery that sums up certain things without going into lots of detail.

Another note, I am doing away with the old Daily Dyer site here. It renew$ later this month and I will see what might be saved and repurposed here eventually. So POOF! as Jude likes to say. There is so much available online it’s dizzying and it has served it’s purpose. It’s fun to look back on though.
HA HA- I just went over to take a break from this post and look at the settings for the Daily Dyer. I am going to remove the passwords there and you can look at it between now and then. I have to do it post by post and there are about 40 posts there. It might take me a day or two to get through it all. Looks like it renews on October 25th. I saw an option to place a banner for readers to “gift” the renewal costs so if anyone wants to do that they can, otherwise POOF! Read through all the posts and changed my mind about this option.
Basically the Daily Dyer blog was a paid subscription site for 6 months with about a couple of posts a week (40 total) talking about what was going on in the studio. Behind the scenes stuff. So have at it and maybe something there will resonate with you. I actually did not enjoy doing both blogs at the same time so did not continue it. It ran Dec 2020-July 2021. Not that long ago really. considering I’ve been blogging here 17 years since 2006!

Enough for now. It’s a new month and some new workshops are floating around in my mind. Will get another post up about that by Monday. Have a great weekend!