Getting Crafty With It

With the weather heating up to simmer, that's just before BOILING, which is what I felt like most of yesterday, I pretty much stayed inside.  Not that my house is much cooler, because I'm cheap.  

This comment has been removed by the author.  Don't you just hate it when people do that?  There's no use complaining about the heat OR PGE.  It does me no good ..........

SO .... I spent the majority of the day playing with Cooper and working on this new crafty project.  Many probably don't know I used to spend a lot of time in Hawaii.  That was Pre-Cooper time when I had no responsibilities.  I could live there!!  

Many hours were spent on the beach with butts in the air.  Why you might ask?   Because we were always bent over looking for sea glass.  There's a lot of it for the taking if you know where to look.  Best kept secrets and all that.  Give me a sieve on a beach and I'm in heaven!!

Over the years I've collected glass jars full of shells, sea glass and trinkets.  These jars are stashed all over my house.  It's time to do something with them.  After doing a little research, wasn't I surprised to find you could glue them on glass with what else ...... those half used tubes of silicone I had for the motorhome.  That's a win-win!!

I've no idea where I found this window frame.  It's pretty old and probably came from someone's kitchen cupboard.  Now to find a place to hang it in my cowboy/rustic lodge house!!  It will match the decor, right?

While retrieving a Fed-Ex package which turned into a lesson in concentration, I almost stepped on this big guy.  What the heck is it??  It's well over an inch long ... looks like a honey bee, no?  I've never seen anything like it.

As for the package, I purchased a flash trigger for my camera, but it turned out to be the wrong one.  I stuffed it in the box and mailed it back.  Trip 1.  They called to tell me I didn't send everything in the box.  I scrounged around the other things that go with the trigger and I found the cables.  I mailed them back.  Trip 2.  They called to tell me I didn't send everything in the box.  Get the picture?  Grumble grumble ... I scrounged around the other things that go with the trigger and I found the adapter.  I mailed it back.  Trip 3.

On the third trip, I spotted this guy.  Ooh la la Mr. Truck Driver.  You should have just run that yellow light instead of parking on the tracks.  I stayed WAY back so I would be out of the way of flying debris.  Lucky for him, the light turned green before he got hit by the train that was madly blowing his horn!!!

The rest of the afternoon was veg out time with the puppies.  Every time I sit down, I become a dog sandwich.  I love them dearly, but long for the days of Hawaii.  I'll post some pictures when I get a chance.

In other exciting news, the trap is set again.  In case you were wondering, TUNA is the magic word when it comes to skunks.  The cheaper, the better.  In fact, I've come to discover that those 50 cent cans of tuna can be cheaper than canned dog food!!  What a revelation!!  Cooper may have a new favorite!!