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Wow!
What a bright day out here on the island! Its too windy and the air is full of tree pollen, so my contact lenses are all trashed, dog walk had to be short. This time of year the pollen falls so thickly its like tiny golden snow drifts all over everything. Grainy, non-soluable, allergy inspiring golden snow drifts. Boots is covered with it, and with other bigger chunks of pollen and seeds from the bushes he likes to scratch his butt on when we are out walking. He found an older golden retriever to play with today, but we were on our way home by then. Tomorrow I think it'll be the woods, not the beach. Too much wind and grit blowing for me! My eyes were streaming by the time I got home, had to pullover to clean out a contact once!

Sent the IRS a bazillion dollars today, now we are officially without that proverbial pot...I try to wait til the last possible moment every year, but today seemed good, and I may not go toward Freeland tomorrow...got a really big involved neckpiece on the bench and might not want to go anywhere. It will be like my 'wedding necklaces', but this time with 6mm round amethyst briolettes dangling instead of pearls. Might just do a dog walk then come home and finish it. They generally take 2 days or more to make. And more time to plish and set. But SOOOO worth it!

I never did find my 'Arc of the Diver', but I found 'Talking back to the night' so got to hear 'Valerie', gotta be one of my all time favorites. Today the tunes will be Norah Jones, Dave, Pat and Take 6...maybe a little Johnny Clegg and Savuka too, if I can get motivated to slap in a tape. Its on the weeks stack of work music. It will be difficult to work today as bright and blue as it is outside, and I started a fun new story so reading would be fun...but that necklace wants to be made, and I wanna be the one to make it. Its just so darned nice out today...and Haole is off on another road trip, so the temptation is there to garden or something. Better get to work before I talk myself out of it!

The little old lady asked if I would make my killer Barb-style nachos for dinner tonight, so that can be the reward for a hard days work! I'll make them and take them thru the woods up the path to her house and we'll pig out! We are often 'bad' when Haole is gone, once we ate an entire custard pie between us, and skipped the real food completely! I am such a bad influence...and it helps explain why I am so fat now! But YUMMM! It was good!

Everybody, go eat pie!
Barb

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