Well, this is a surprise

 Quiet day mostly. Laundry's done, trash is done. Still have to put laundry away, do dishes, and clean the cat box. Groceries also done and put up. No gumption. I watched a video by Starla Moore, who is an amazing Etsy coach and stopped partway through. Never mind more data on this, Starla, I'm off to sort out my fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas designs and put them in their own folder so I don't have to look for them. And those are getting concentrated on while it's summer, so they'll be ready for the holiday rush in a few months. I want a great Christmas in the shops.

Awful tired, though. Mowed some, too, and I'm beat. Wanted to make pasties tonight but the store was out of rutabagas. So in the morning, I'll make cookies to take to Kat and Larry's for the cookout and make pasties Monday. Gives me time to hit up the other grocery store in town tomorrow in hopes of finding a rutabaga so I don't have to make the pasties without it. Then the holiday Monday and back to work Tuesday at the Just Over Broke that I hate going to. I swear that place is slowly killing me.

So keeping this short as I want some sleep for a relatively early morning tomorrow and quick cookie baking. My bestie needs some cookie love!

The first picture is called a grapefruit rhodochrosite. Weird and interesting rocks are neat to look at!









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