Library books, probably won't finish them but there is a chance I'll read them, the one on the right is about Paris, and magic, but the text is on the small side. The center one is about a Native American community, and the library has the sequel out which made me go see if they had the first one. The one on the left was on sale for two dollars and the premise is quite scary and intriguing (future, one child per family, identical twins and mother died, father made an elaborate ruse in her memory to appear as if there was only one daughter and now the daughters are older and trying to figure out how to go on when they only have one identity and fear of death on discovery). But, now that I own that one - however intriguing it is, I will look at the other two first since they are two weeks loan.
our local library had such cute children's decorations I had to take a picture of it - mushroom window, waterfall in the back (out of streamers) and paper chain tree leaves on a column made to look like a trunk (complete with owl)
we had donated a lot of coleus one day after a farmer's market trip - and they put some out front in planters :) We were so glad they were loved
the community garden raised beds were full of interesting plants
Also, little chicken did not improve, and I think perhaps she also had a fractured bone in her leg that had actually caused the other problems and was the reason she could not improve even with warm baths and eye-dropper feeding. There wasn't anything else we could do for her, and she wasn't eating and barely drinking. Esme was sad, but we did what we could - cleaned up all the care things this morning and then I continued and cleaned out some garden beds and the dry goods pantry - trying to sort my brain out, by sorting what is in front of me ie ie.... I hate losing one, even when there are twenty - and twenty was a bit much for us, but when you buy them small you almost expect to lose several - and we were lucky in that we raised all of the last batch to adulthood and hadn't lost any of the batch before (which we had also expected). We let them have as long of lives as they can, whether or not if they are laying eggs keeping up 'production'. At the same time we don't do anything elaborate, like the heated houses that look better than doghouses that I see, or go out and spend hours with them every day as I see online as well. We will give them greens and vegetable cuttings and make sure they have layer feed twice a day and clean water, and collect the eggs - that's a pretty good life for a chicken, especially around here.
Knitting a little this morning, going to go take a look at that crochet bear or cat I was working on. Doing laundry and sweeping and wishing I had more energy to go further and deep clean other things but the pantry did need it. I want to 'make it better' on a lot of little things but the little things add up. That is good - because they should add up to better, but they also add up in exhaustion, so a little at a time, easy does it et al. And I washed one of the dogs, she is always so sensitive she was begging me to give her another bath. She hasn't quite figured out how to distinctly ask for a bath - but I've been getting more signals from her a few times lately and trying to see if we can get an actual trained signal. I finally studied amigurumi stitches and see what I'm doing that makes the weave not tight enough - will see on the next if I can correct that. We do plan, at least Esme and I, to go sell at the market this afternoon, and then we need groceries tonight or tomorrow.
Doing French at the high-grammar level, Chinese at the lowest level when the French grammar annoys me, and Spanish on my phone although that is a higher grammar level as well and I might have to switch down to something else there for a little bit, as well.
