Monday

[nightdog_barks]

Birds very busy at the feeders this morning -- chickadees and cardinals, including one young cardinal who flapped his wings awkwardly as he tried to maintain his balance on the tray. Also a bluejay who scolded Chango for being in the backyard at the same time s/he was. Heh.

For the past few nights we've had a little green anole lizard come and spend the night on one of the top branches of our Norfolk pine. I'll turn on the deck light when the dog wants out and there it'll be, stretched out and sound asleep. So strange -- I guess it feels safe there? It's always gone by morning.

Sunny and 90 degrees (32.2 Celsius), although it feels as if it's 97. Need to do several housely things today, so. Should get started; in the meantime, I think this is a small but interesting story: Masters student uses death mask to identify portrait of artist JMW Turner. The portrait itself (shown in the article) is really quite beautiful.

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[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Well, now that the sketching is done, I've kind of ... stalled out. Or it feels that way, although actually what I've been doing is (shock!) looking at housing listings and responding to a few.

I really do need to do some laundry, though, and then regroup w/the packing of stuff. Also, eat lunch. Lunch would probably be a good idea.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

MMmmmmmm, lunch! I am eating lunch right now, too. Calories generally help me get going, also. :)

*waves to Nightdog*

Hello! The one thing I haven't done today is fill the birdfeeders, heh.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Hi Perspi!

*g*

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

I need to fold the laundry from yesterday and put fresh sheets on the bed. Among other things. Many other things.

:-)

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Lizards are so cute! We usually have a lot of blue-tailed skinks hanging around, but I haven't seen them this summer.

I sort of stalled out after doing some errands, but still need to go visit Mom and do some house cleaning when I get back. Rocket is alternating between begging baby carrots from me and aggravating the boy into throwing a toy for him. :D

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

We have spiny tree lizards, anoles, and geckos. When I was a kid we had horned lizards ("horny toads") but I haven't seen one of those in many, many years.

I'm a little stalled out too. Chango is dozing on the kitchen floor. *g*

[aries-ascendant.livejournal.com]

I used to love the anoles when we lived in Florida. Then I found out the brown ones out-numbered the green ones because they were an invasive species and had eaten all the little green guys.

Suddenly, they weren't so cute. ;) I got my lizard fix from then on from the geckos.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

*reads up on Green Anoles and Cuban Brown Anoles*

Oh dear. So far we just have the greens around here and they're pretty adorable. The geckos ... they're cute, but they've got that weird almost-translucence thing going on. Eeeee.