The girl who kicked the thrift store...

Normally I would be at work right now, but I had a bit of a ((blowout)) and was unable to go. Take that as you will, I don't plan on going into details about it.

I had to get up a bit earlier today so that I could drive my aunt into Piedmont so that she could pick her truck up at the shop. I fee so bad for her, she had to pay nearly $1000 for repairs -- which weren't THAT bad! That's the way it goes when you live in a small town. They know you'll pay it, cause they're the only ones that can fix it.

After we dropped her off at the shop, we ran to the store to get some supplies for little Jasper. We needed some cotton swabs, saline nose drops, and a few other things that a required for hand raising a sick kitty. We're hoping that we can mask the symptoms of his URI until we can get him to the vet.

Speaking of, we managed to catch another kitten today! This one is a great weight, but definitely needs her eyes cleaned and some TLC.

On our way home -- since it was just after noon -- we decided to swing by the St. Catherine's thrift store. My aunt stops by there all the time and always gushes about the good sales they have. Mainly in the book department, but in others as well.

We couldn't have stopped by at a better time, because they were having a 5 of $1 sale on their books!! Close to 20 minutes and $3.50 later, we left with 17 books in our greedy hands. Just a preview: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest, Scarlet, Angels and Demons, and then some! Killer finds!

Our uncle stopped by later in the afternoon -- right in the middle of us cleaning -- to look through some old pictures, in hopes of finding a particular one. He's the husband of my late aunt Eva, the one who passed away at the end of last year. Unfortunately, he didn't find the picture he was looking for, but I'm going to keep my eye out for it.

After he left, we continued our cleaning/reorganizing of the glider/spare room. We completely moved things around in there and now have ALL of the cages on one wall! It's so nice! It seems less cluttered and like we have so much more room. I'm not sure why, but it makes the room look taller as well, which is never a bad thing.

My body aches from moving everything around. We also had to carry our 6th and first HQ cage all the way across the yard to clean in. It wasn't being used, so it was being stored. It's nice and clean and completely inhabited.

Love & Peace

-Megan

All our awesome books.

My uncle's dog, Chico. Believe it or not, he's 15!!

My uncle.

Enjoying some outside adventures.

Check out our awesome row of cages!

They look so much better now.

Now we just need to swap out cage sets!

Oh the jubilation of living in a small town...

We had to meet my aunt in Piedmont today so that she could drop her truck off and we could give her a ride home. This is something we've had to do through the years, so it's like clockwork. We ended up missing each other a couple different times and lost about 45 minutes in the process. Yeah, so not going into details about that horrible ordeal. Mixed emotions were had about the incident, but everyone was chill in the end.

While we were waiting, we had the misfortune of witnessing a local from Piedmont. Said person had on, now wait for it... a pink hat, blue shirt, and RED pants! I was about to freak out, lol. I mean, who pairs colors like that? To each their own, but wow.

We got home in just enough time to go down to the chicken coop and feed the ducklings some noodles. They LOVE noodles, it's like duck-crack or something. I can't imagine how they'll react when they get to try mealies for the first time. I'm hoping the rest of the flock will take to them okay, cause it's really starting to be a pain moving them in and our of their cage inside the coop. Oh how I long for the days they can live in harmony.

Omg, how have I not mentioned this yet!?!? LaVaughn bought me The Hobbit!!! It's the leather bound pocket edition that I feel in love with in the store. It arrived in the mail yesterday -- I don't think I've put it down since, lol. I am, however, scared to touch it too much. I'm worried that something will get on it, or I'll crinkle a page.

I suppose that's all. I imagine if there was anymore excitement I would have shared it by now. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here's the one of a kind outfir:

A dung butterfly:

The ducklings:

The Hobbit:

I LOOOOOOVE this!!!

Your friendly neighborhood opossum:

He loves Casey's cookies.

See it gripped in his greedy hands?

"Nom, nom, nom!"

And Toby:

What a lovely day for some photos...

The feeling very rarely strikes me anymore, but when it does - I can't contain myself! I've had SO much on my mind the past couple months, it's just put me in the state of depression and forces me to hate doing the things that I love. Some days, I push past those feelings and do them anyway. Like today, for example.

I remember the days of old when I wasn't so photo hungry. I think the most photos I ever posted on one of my blogs was maybe 20-30. And that was a LOT back then. Today, the majority of my blogs don't have under 20. I sometimes wonder if it's my photo obsession that puts a damper on my blogging. Who knows, really. I do know one thing - as long as I'm able to take photos, I'll take as many as humanly possible!

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here they are:

 Here's Ash! Our sikie bantam and buttercup cross. Isn't she cute? 

 My broken watermelon vine. Thanks a lot, chickens!

 Splitting the vine.

Taping it to a new one.

Enclosing the glorious watermelon.

Check out this other watermelon that's growing!

Fire bush.

 A visit from the Sheriff of Iron County! Whatever will we do?

Willow tree.

Fletcher in his dog house.

Carly in hers.

Check out that grasshopper!

Isn't he neat?

Close up on green grasshopper!!

More leaves, LOL!

Stretchy dog!

Such a pretty face.

This looks like a mugshot to me.

Yawn!

More yawn, lol.

And now time for a nap.

Beautiful ivy.

I don't know why, but I love the way ivy looks against concrete.

Probably my favorite shot of the vines.

I like this one a lot too.

An old Jane Eyre book. This was a gift from my aunt.

Inside of Jane Eyre... wait, that sounded dirty.

Una rubbing on her favorite dog.

Milla's guilty face.