Wednesday-3pm

What a mottled jackrabbit.  ??

Yes, got the pictures working again for OneDrive, but lost all my previous pics.  Dagan even contacted OneDrive and the pictures are gone if they're not in my trash folder on my laptop.  So, we are starting again...with a motley jackrabbit and Miss Annie.  She didn't come out from under the bed for about 24 hours...not even any evidence she was out during the night while I slept.  But once she did I think Annie was glad that she recognized me...and she loves the patio door.  

I already knew Annie will roll around on the floor, nervously licking, if you sweet talk her.  But if I would have made a move to get up out of my chair she would have been under the bed before my feet hit the floor.  Annie has a love-hate relationship with human attention.  ;)  It's a trust issue. 

She still darts away--but occasionally will stay in the room or the hallway till she finds out what I'm up to.  I don't see much of her most days.  She was used to hiding all day till Ian went to bed so she usually comes out in the evenings.  After two weeks she has started to come out sometimes for a little visit in the morning and/or in the afternoons.  (Mostly due to her discovery of CatTV.)  But if I am up and down or moving around much--poof!--she's gone.  I can pet her a little, so she does remember me from visits and cat-sitting at McFamily's.  She is a gentle soul.  A scared little gentle soul.
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It took quite a few days before I found an acceptable spot for her favorite cat bed from home. 

 Closer to me than I would have thought--LOL!  Right across from my chair but near the hallway so she can dart off under the bed whenever life gets too scary.
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Well, this month I got a few books that I plan to use to help me with decorating and fancying up my bullet journal (which I haven't started to do yet).  For headers--Swash Letter Alphabets (not the greatest, but there are a few I can use).  Draw 500 Fabulous Flowers (okay--because it came first I started to use it on writing tablets to a couple "guinea pig" pen pals--LOL!).

Botanical Line Drawing!  

I know this book is going to be my favorite because it has step-by-step drawings for people like myself who aren't imaginative or overly talented but can follow simple directions.  ;)  I am looking forward to playing from this book!
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Last week I got one of those out-of-the-blue-as-waking-up-GA-things to switch the tables in the studio.  (You people who know me well know what those are.)  I didn't think it would work and was feeling so tired...but nag-nag-nag...so I finally got out a yardstick (to prove him wrong) and it looked like it would fit to switch them--duh!  

So, I took an afternoon to switch the tables--and I LOVE IT!!!

I have a more spacious art table under the window with the black table there...

...and so much more room to walk around the smaller table (former art table--now sewing machine/catch-all table replacement).  There was never enough room for Leah and I to work in here together in the first place.  Just plain not a big enough room.  So the center table was only used for the sewing machine...and, as I confessed, a catch all when the sewing machine is put away.

I can hardly wait for Leah to see how much more room there is in here--just to stand and do die cutting on the Vagabond!

Thanks, GA!  :)
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Then I tried out the new arrangement sewing diaper liners for Ian.  Got those done so that they could take them with on their vacation (left today for a McGregor reunion of sorts--Dagan's brothers and their families visiting).
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I haven't seen Leah this month because she got sick--Ian, too--and then they were getting ready to leave and packing.  Probably won't have a craft night again till end of July.  Dagan came by to pick up the diaper liners and to help me with OneDrive.  He brought over Annie's favorite toys--a string toy and this ball spinner thing she loves.
That was the happiest I have seen her since she moved here.  :)  She's played with it every day since.
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  BUT--CatTV...

...now that is something new and exciting!

I guess I am going to be feeding the birds some this summer after all--LOL!  Just because I get such a kick out of Annie watching the birds.

And...since there have been a couple/few thirteen striped ground squirrels coming all summer to stop and drink water on their way to gather stray bird seed from the people who have bird feeders out anyways...

...my feeding them a little won't make me solely responsible if they are trapped and killed, you know?

You may notice that it was so hot out that the ground squirrel was lying flat on its belly to eat the bread crumbs and oatmeal I put out.  Annie remained frozen...and I never noticed that the tip of her right ear is missing.  Frostbite or attack when she was a street cat in her youth??

Well, I guess I need to buy some more bird seed--LOL!  I need some of the no mess or no waste seed so I don't have any shells underfoot in the summertime.
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Anyways, I am back--with photos!!  It's a gorgeous, cooler (67 F), clouded over day where I've been able to have the place opened up all day long--ahhh!  Annie has loved it and been out a couple times during the day today to spend time at the patio door.  :) :)
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Have a wonderful rest of the week!!  
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"As the Sun shines upon my heart, so may my heart shine upon others!"
The Upanishads