Tuesdaily with photos

[ellenmillion]

I am all a-bruised and a-scraped from hauling brush and wood during our working birthday weekend. It was not restful, but it was, in many ways, very satisfying. And WOW. It was a lot of work.






It looks SO different now.

Greenup happened while we were working - the first trees we felled on Saturday had little itty bitty green buds at the tips... and today there are green leaves EVERYWHERE. Poof.

There are voles in my garden; it looks like my chives and my delphiniums have survived, but there is no sign of my lilies or iris and there are %$^&* little holes all over it. I am buying a half dozen mouse traps at the store today and thinning their population. (I would set Velcro loose on them, but she is a spoiled indoor cat and I would like her not to be eaten by a fox.)

Here is a happy Guppy playing with her visiting aunts and cousin E, and trying on a work glove for size.



I have art to do today, it's the last week of Sea Monster Month at Torn World, and there is more laundry to be done!

Comments

[kill-inhibition.livejournal.com]

It looks heaps better!
I find most satisfying things to be hard work! :)

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

I really like this kind of work because the results are so OBVIOUS. It's not like data entry or doing dishes, where you can put in a whole lot of work and you can't tell the next day - there's this huge new bald spot in the forest! And my muscles are all sore in a strangely comfortable way that says 'you worked!' It's very satisfying indeed.

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is some birthday labor! IMPRESSIVE!!

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Heh! It wasn't a relaxing birthday, but it was enormously satisfying to get it all done!

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

Aw, nice pic!