Weekend

I love the beach with a passion.  Water is my healing force.   When I need strength and calm, moving water moves me.

We took the bike to Bradenton.  The ride was gorgeous.  Sunny, warm, and windy.  The beach was the same, and the water was clear and calm, but OH SO COLD.  Take your breath-away cold.  It was awesome.

My gosh, you guys.  It's amazing how hard you can fall in love with a tiny, little old man who wants you to DIAF.  Ducky the Parrotlet is sooooo cute to me, even (and maybe especially) when he's threatening to kick my butt. 

He has a favorite place he hangs out in the daytime, where he's fairly hidden from view.  I've noticed that when I come home in the afternoon and deal with my screaming conure, Ducky stays hidden, but then when Benny calms down, and I can say hello to him, Ducky comes out and sits on a perch where he can see and be seen. 

Then while I'm cooking dinner, he comes out again and watches me cook, and blinks with me and I talk to him and whistle a bit.  Sometimes, if I've given him fresh millet, he'll climb up on the side of the cage and eat while I cook. 

And in the evening, when I turn out his uv light, he crawls into his favorite sleeping spot like he was waiting for me to tell him it was bedtime.
I love that rotten little turd of a bird!

Bloggity Blog

So in addition to my other crafty pursuits, I've added nail-polish jewelry.  This is fantastically fun, because some of these nail polishes, I *really* don't like on the nail--this gives me a use for them.  So many pretty pretty things I've made.  Of course, as usual, I've given away half of what I've made, but here are a few.



I plan to continue making them, but I haven't decided what I want to do with them yet.  I'm not sure if I want to set myself up as a seller or not, even though I already have an empty Etsy storefront setup.