On day 9 of my stay-cation we started out the day as usual. I did find some disturbing comments on a discussion which really hurt my feelings. I need to learn that there are people out there who will run you down no matter what you do. Luckily I was able to talk it out and get on with my day.
For breakfast we had fresh eggs from the hens and then made our way out to feed the feral colonies and check out a few flea markets in Smithfield.
We saw the kitty without a tail and the gray and white at Morgans.
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We saw the two black cats and the tiger stripe at the greenhouse.
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Next we stopped by Five Star for lunch.
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We stopped by the flea markets. They were a bit of a disappointment. We decided to head out early and just go back home. We did however stop to do a couple's selfie behind the truck!
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Finally we came back home and I needed to finish up some Kyanite pendants and throw a few pots.
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Over all it was a fantastic day. I learned that when people run you down, talk trash about you or post hate online. It is generally out of envy. People gossip out of jealousy. You have a choice, you can allow it to fester in your mind or you can feel it, identify it and let it go. The best thing you can do is keep being who you are and sparkle on.
Today was Friday. Eli and I feed the Goldsboro Ferals on Friday. Before we left I cut the pots off the bats that I threw last night. They turned out pretty good.
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Then we headed out to Goldsboro.
Nums for the kitties.
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We found a couple of new faces at the Greenhouse today. I'm not sure they are actually "new new" or just new to me.
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We stopped by Traveler's old spot and dropped off some food. Andi wasn't there but I did see this cool bug.
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Then we went to Lowes. I love the flower area.
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I love the smell of petunia always reminds me of my grandma.
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Finally we came home and I worked on some wrapping. I made this really cool ring tonight with a triple basket weave. I really like it.
Today there wasn't much time for photo taking today. Hubby and I needed to clean out the pole barn. Our barn was full of stuff that we've always just stored away thinking we'd use them eventually. Sorry for this blurry picture. But this is what it looked like before.
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We we pulled out a truck load of stuff from the barn, as well as doing our other regular chores. It was literally a truckload.
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Yes, that's FOUR doors and and a wading pool. LOL Under all that stuff is also 2 lawnmowers!
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Here's the finished product. We worked our tushes off today. It looks wonderful. We were able to move extra stuff out of my studio today, which is already in the barn in the picture above!! Soo excited. Now I have room for four shelves that will allow me to place my green-ware, bisque-ware and my ready to fire pottery all in one neat organized area.
After we finished cleaning up, vacuuming and getting the room all set I decided to go ahead and throw a few pots. A few friends have requested that I make an urn for them. I've only been throwing for six months so I'm just learning the shapes that I need to make for these pots. I ended up with one below. I've got a lot of work to do. But I'm determined.
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After finishing the pots I had a nice hot bath. I am beat. Now I'm updating my blog and watching The Daily Show with the hubby. I think I have been over-productive this stay-cation.
Here's my next batch of pots. I'm finding that I really like the abstract ones. Something draws me to the flow and design. I'm pretty sure they're not going to find their way onto a table as working dinnerware, but I like the way the look sitting on my shelf.
Today was good day. Hubby helps out a friend of ours by taking her son to school. Today and tomorrow are the last days of the school year so he went off early this morning to take care of that. While he was away I went outside to finish up his chores really fast so maybe we could go to a movie or do something fun that he might like.
Part of my chores in the morning is feeding the feral colony outside and getting the eggs. Hubby waters the garden.
A little blurry but here is White Tip in front, Ragged Tooth behind her and back on the back fence you can see Lou sitting waiting for his turn.
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This is Brown Kitty (yes, I'm running out of names).
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This handsome boy is Phantom.
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Smudge didn't show to the bowls until late, I'll get a pic of him next time.
The hens have decided that all the eggs must be placed in the same nest. Even if one hen is already in the nest. We have six nests for 7 chickens. They all lay in the same nest. Sometimes a different nest, but all in the same nest each day.
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This morning Hubby needed to hoe the garden and cut the grass along the edge. So I did all the chores really fast. The cucumbers are doing really well, tomatoes.. eh.. Melons... pretty good. I only photographed the Melons and the Cucumbers, I'm trying to shame the tomatoes into growing better.
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When hubby came back I was sure he would take me to see X-Men or something, I surprised him with his completed chores and asked him what he wanted to do. He said.... (wait for it) Buy a door.
Yeah, that's right, he wanted to go buy a door. So we piled in the truck and went to buy a door. We found a door at Habitat for Humanity yesterday, so we decided to go see if it was still there.
We scored our door and then took a drive. We like to ride together. We used to be stuck on the 5 coming from Oceanside to San Diego every day driving from work to home when we lived on the West Coast. We loved just sitting and talking in the car. We found locations for 3 new Flea Markets we plan to check out over the weekend. We grabbed some lunch and then headed home.
Hubby began the door work. He took off the old door, did some stuff with the chisel and then asked me to hold the door. He then had to leave to go pick up the kid from school. He came back and finished it. Now I have an awesome new door in the studio!
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I really love the door handle. It looks almost like the pages of a book on the top. Lots of character.
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After dinner we had to go release the kitties we got spayed yesterday. Here are the two we released.
We then went for ice cream and came home. I have the best life in the world. And the best husband.
Today was vet day. Last night after dinner we put an extra trap at the Country Skillet restaurant in Goldsboro to see if we could catch one of the three ferals that live there. This morning on our way out to the vet we had indeed trapped one very angry cat.
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Then we were SpayToday bound. We went out with the little baby we trapped, one from Pet Palace that hubby had to catch with a fish net and the gray mama we've been trying to trap for weeks.
We didn't have time to grab breakfast so we thought we'd pick something up in Greenville. The company and the sunrise was lovely but for the dead bugs on the windshield.
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We got stuck behind just about every school bus in Greene County but we rolled into the SpayToday office just 5 minutes late. As I start filling out the paperwork they ask me how many I have. I tell them four. She said OH, you can't bring four only 2 per person. I pointed at hubby and they said, he doesn't count. I was like Oh crap. I have four trapped cats in my truck. After a quick discussion hubby and I decided to fix the two we knew for certain were females, bring the baby and the one from Country Skillet back home where we dropped off the baby kitten
We had planned to have breakfast in Greenville but with the two cats still in traps we decided to head back home. As we're driving back I remember that Cottage Animal Clinic is on the way home, sort of, and Dr. Manning there will do ferals without an appointment. I quickly get on the phone and call in. Sure enough Dr. Manning will do it for me. I'm not sure of the gender so it's 50/50 on how much it will end up costing us. We take to Greenville when we can because it's cheaper and no appointment is needed. Up until today it had gone off without a hitch. I call a couple of other volunteers and we work out the possibility of a voucher in case the bill is over $100.00.
We finally get back to Goldsboro and get some breakfast. After breakfast, Hubby needed some cording for the bodices so off to Joann we go!
Did you know you could buy a Leprechaun that poops candy at Joann?
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I saw this cute book.
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And this adorable stamp that immediately reminded me of my sister.
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Next we went to the thrift store. I found this awesome Barbie Doll called "Spell Secrets Barbie". She comes with a special magic potion that you can drink!! The info on the back however said it was for entertainment purposes only. Bummer. I bought it anyway. I have the first part of a future Hecate project now.
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I also saw this cool Mr. Potato Head pumpkin thingy. It was neat. I didn't buy it but it was cute.
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Next we went to Habitat for Humanity's Resale Store. They didn't have anything really cool to buy but they did have the interesting document that listed out what at first, I thought was color magic then noticed the bible versus on the end. Interesting....
Next we went to the price club to buy a couple big bags of cat food and fill up on gas. I didn't photo here, it was boring.
By now it was time to head back to pick up the last cat we dropped off, then drive back to Greenville to pick up the SpayToday drop offs. Our SpayToday drop offs turned out to be a female so luckily we had a certificate to get a discount on her spay. We packed her up and headed to Greenville. At SpayToday we had about a 10 minute wait so I took some photos of the flowers.
We drove the Pet Palace kitty back to her place, and brought the rest home. Now I'm finishing up dinner and trying to relax. After we release these guys tomorrow night we'll be on break until Monday for any trapping. All this work we do is why I do my fundraisers. If you might be interested in helping me do what I do, I'm currently offering a free Cat's Eye Pendant to anyone who donates at least $25. That's 1/2 the cost of us to get one cat fixed.
I thought the pond looked cool, so I took a picture of it.
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Lou peeked his head in to watch me put out the food for my feral colony.
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Then I let the chickens out.
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This "little" guy was in the trap this morning. He already had his ear tipped so we let him go. He was NOT happy about it. I'll add the video below.
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This is the gray mama kitty. We've been trying to get her for weeks. She is sooo smart!
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We went to the Goldsboro City Cemetery to put out some flags and checkout the memorials. The Confederate Memorial has 800 troops buried in a mass grave. 200 of those are unidentified.
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We also went out to the Outlaw Memorial to put out flags as well. Here are some shots from there. Captain James Outlaw is my 5th Great Grandfather.
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We came back home to water the garden and do some chores. I needed to get some rose petals drying for spell component packs for PPD.
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Then it was time to pet the kitten.
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We went back to Goldsboro one last time to collect the traps and look who was in there!!! WE got her!! She will be fixed tomorrow!
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We then got a call that there was a female out at Pet Palace that needed to be fixed too, so we drove out and picked her up as well. It's going to be a full house tomorrow!
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