Sleeping hummingbird "snores" in Peru, and other Saturday things

Here is some heart-melting cuteness I found online. Adorable sleeping hummingbird "snores" in Peru



Didn't I tell ya??

I am happy writing today. I am organizing my thoughts for the weekly prophecy newsletter I send out. I've eaten my favorite breakfast, fried eggs, homefries and English muffin with peanut butter. I've had my coffee and my extra weekend cups of coffee. I'm ready to start. So immediately I decided to write a blog entry on this blog instead. LOL. It's not procrastinating. It's "preparing."

Saturdays I sit at my Editor's Chair at the kitchen table with my laptop and all day long I write. I do get up occasionally. Just now I got up to stretch and I found a pile of gifts at my feet: a string, two milk rings and an elastic hair band. Awwww, the kitties!

It is a bright and cold day but the birds are really active, singing and chirping. I LOVE THAT! I just wish I had a good car and money for gas to go traipsing all over the rural county like I used to on Saturdays, taking photos of all the rural loveliness. I miss taking photos out and about. I have concentrated on the micro in my yard, but I think I have exhausted that. Maybe it's just spring about to pop that has made me restless for taking photos. When the warmer weather comes I think I'll go with my friend who likes to yard sale, and I'll take my camera. She'll have company and I'll have a ride. We can chat and gaga over her finds and I can have a change of scene for photos. Yes, by gum, it's a plan.

Yard sale-ing!

I'm a-going yard sale-ing tomorrow. Leaving at 7:45 with a friend and hope to find:

--laptop lap desk
--George Foreman grill (small)
--veggie steamer
--round table to put my piece of pink marble on

Wish us luck!!!!!!!!!!

PS if I get really lucky I will find a full size mattress and box spring, unused and still in the plastic. Har har, what're the chances? I'm hoping!

scrounging for old stuff

I love to yard sale, browse in old antique stores, scour Freecycle and eBay, all for the purpose of finding stuff to use in crafts and art. My specially exciting find is old paper and ephemera. So many old Christmas cards and Valentines are charming and cute, well-made and almost a shame to gesso over or cut up. But I do, figuring it gives them new life or new purpose.

In Paris we went to the old flea markets held on the fringes of the city, for the purpose of finding something to buy just so we could say we shopped at the Paris flea markets. Paris Perfect says, "The Puces covers 7 hectars and is the largest antiques market in the world, receiving between 120,000 to 180,000 visitors each weekend. The history of the flea market dates back over two centuries, when rag and bone men scoured through the garbage of Paris at night to find valuable junk to sell on. They were called ‘crocheteurs’ or pickers. The romantic term was ‘pêcheurs de lune’ or fishermen for the moon. Many set up their temporary stalls within the Paris walls, in sleazy neighborhoods but because these neighborhoods were full of pickpockets and thieves, they were chased out of the city walls to Clignancourt, Montreuil, Vanves, etc. The largest of these flea markets is the one at Clignancourt but the other two continue to this day."

Of course, anything we bought there had to be transported back home, so I reverted to my trusty fave, paper stuff. I found two vintage postcards, one entitled Les Tulipes and the other, La Lentille. Ooh la la! I have not used them yet but every time I am about to I gaze longingly at them, remembering the fun day at the Paris flea market. I am going yard sale-ing Saturday in Madison County and I'm sure I will find some cool stuff here too. The thrill of the hunt, it never fails...