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Some neat little bugs I saw on a plant at the park.

      There is this movie called Fly Away Home and it's about a little girl who bring up a nest of baby geese!  They end up seeing her as their mother figure and she has to prompt them to flying south by getting in a small plane and leading them away.  The reason I bring this up is being I love quoting that movie.  It goes like this: "HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!"  Something like that.  That's not the only reason I'm bringing this up though, that would be silly!  So, as I was walking to put the mail in the mailbox yesterday (which didn't get sent because it was a holiday- go figure) I overheard a goose.  When I looked up, there it was!  A goose flying solo south!  It may have been more Southwest than just south.  Just sayin'.  To answer your question, yes I did start saying "HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!"
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      Another great thing about yesterday was the weather!  It's probably the end of the coldfront and around 4PM will probably be back in the 80s but you have no idea how weird it was to say the other evening, "It's 57 right now."  Like I've said before, anything below 100 is just fine for me.  But seriously, lets respect Fall and have some nice cool weather. 
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      With Fall comes the falling of acorns.  Every now and then I get spooked because another one falls off onto the roof and since we have a tin roof it can get pretty loud.  I still haven't been knocked in the head by any, but there's still time.  Last year I picked up a lot of the caps and made acorns by gluing a cotton ball wrapped in fabric to the inside.  They're cute!  Not sure if I should get some sparkly string and glue loops on them for ornaments or just set them out somewhere.  They're top heavy so they roll over and quit looking like acorns.  The ornament idea is probably best.  They'll go well with our little blue tree my mom invested in last year.  I thought getting another tree meant 2 trees, but boy way I wrong.
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      Besides falling acorns, lactose intolerant people have a leg down in the foods of Fall category.  Egg Nog has dairy, hot chocolate has dairy, the pumpkin pie I ate the other day had dairy...it's cruel really!  Queso has dairy and it's staring me down when I open the fridge.  And I've been opening the fridge a lot lately!  I go to the TeaPioca Lounge by my house and get a Jack fruit cream drink and it's creamed with dairy.  I never learn I guess but they do have just ice drinks...maybe I'll get the Kiwi one today instead of a cream.  I seriously need to cut back on this dairy!!!  A gurgley tummy is not fun, okay?!
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      On another note, not including Fall... I've just sold a necklace and matching earrings to a friend who took them to an auction.  I do wonder if they sold.  My G.P.(Granny Pat) took a painting or 2 with her and sold one.  It was one I did in High School.  It was neat but I wasn't attached to it.  You can't really be attached to your artwork because someone, that being G.P., is going to want everything you make.  However, I've been telling her that she can't have everything because then she's the only one who knows me.  Make sense?  Sure it does!  BUT YEAH!  I then got inspired to make some jewelry for my art show!  It's hard though!  I made one good piece yesterday, though I also made a goofy one, but couldn't figure out how to put earrings with it...so I ditched the set idea and I'm going to stick with just necklaces.  I can tell when I really don't care for some of the older stuff I've made because I envision taking it apart and trying again.  Sometimes the outcome is 10X better though!
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      I wish I had the push to be in my studio more often, but it's just not happening.  I went there to other day and did another boyscout popcorn mountain scene (which is basically the same scene just on a different sized canvas) then yesterday I tried to do a mini still life that I made up from my head.  I didn't feel like finishing it...so I didn't.
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      Send good feelings my way!  And, send good thoughts that don't result in me eating tons of dairy!