I FOUGHT THE LAWN AND THE LAWN WON.

Summer is of course a very busy time at my job.

My Boarding Area is packed but that's good.

Busy + Waiting List = Job Security. 

But it does leave me exhausted and no energy to get stuff at home done.

I've shared photos before of my yard and right afterward I got a lot of it mowed down

but I didn't tackle the area of the hill.

Too Hot + Too Tired = No doing it.

And then it's rained several times.

A couple of days ago I walked down to the top of the hill again.

I just stood there looking at it.

I'm not even upset.

OK yeah, I WAS, but no, not any longer.

Nope, I'm NOT going to let it drive me crazy.

But..these weeds are TALL..

I mean like 4 feet.

This one is even taller than that.

So...I'm done.

My niece Lily is coming over tomorrow and we are going to clear just the top part.

Then we are putting up a fence.

Yeah, that's my usual M.O.

If I can't deal with something, then block it out and try to forget it.

I do have BIG plans for the top area now though.

PLAN C -

I'm fencing it in and lining it with flowers and making it into a big outside room.

Painted picnic table, birdbaths, fairy garden, fire-pit area...yep, things like that.

PLAN D -

Or buying a big discounted pool and surrounding it with pea gravel.

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PLAN F -

Or maybe a horse trough/stock tank for a MODERN effect.

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Maybe not.

But...I DONE with that damn hill.

Thoughts and....2 Down, One more to go!

Suddenly I have all these thoughts in my head.

Things I need to write down and post about.
But there's just not enough time and then there's so many favorite blogs that I'm having a hard time keeping up with.
On top of that, my computer at work is down.
First it was the "fan" in the computer tower.
That happened on Cyber-Monday.
Secretly I felt like it might be part of a conspiracy but I really wouldn't have used it for on-line shopping...
Well, maybe on my "break" or my "lunch half hour" so I guess it was just as well.
I just have to go up to the front desk to use one of theirs to check my scheduling and do my "re-arranging" of boarders.
Yes, it kinda irritated me that the staff was up there on Facebook and looking up Christmas cards to order.
I grumbled to myself, if MY computer was working I could be doing important things.
Like reading some blogs.
And it makes for boring lunches. Nothing to surf.
Just eating my lunch as Edgar the cat tries to grab it out of my hands.
(more about HIM later. That's a post in itself).
Sigh....
Now the mouse isn't working. Or rather the place where you plug the mouse into the tower, that thing has to be ordered in.
Yeah, I can't complain about it.
Or rather call too much attention to my need for it.
And in a week, I will be running around at top speed that I will hardly have time to go potty much less Log In.
So I scribble down thoughts on the backs of used cage cards for now and stuff them into my pockets.
Thoughts about stuff I want to write about. Hopefully I can later decipher what my original thought process was at the time.
And here at home?
No time.
I'm painting, I need to clean the house but right now I'm just lucky to keep up on laundry.
and I have posts about Nora and Poppy to update about...
Now that they have both settled in and know they are HOME
and apparently can do whatever they like.

Here's my latest commission painting.

Now on to the poodles. They are driving me NUTS. Trying to paint 2 BLACK dogs.
Black blobs....with eyes.
No definition. I've ruining one painting and have started over.
I'm making this one more "POP ART", kinda Abstract and hopefully it will be acceptable.
The client has emailed me that she would like me to also do her newest dachshund's portrait, a group photo of all her dachsie's and her terrier AND another of her pony.
I emailed her to hang on and that she's scaring me.
I've only shown her the first boxer one. The one I thought would be easiest.
I told her to wait and see the other two paintings to make sure she likes them too.
OK. off to work on the Poodle painting....wish me luck!