Learning curves and leaves

Welcome!

Kaleidoscope by inkspired 

Today is a beautiful Autumn day.

We still have snow on the ground, and a chill in the air

However

the sun is shining and we have blue skies

with fluffy white clouds.

Wonderful!

Vintage illustration

Just a note here - 

As I post photos, poems, quotes, etc.

I will always try to give credit to the originators.

Whenever I teach art classes

I ALWAYS ask my students to sign their creation.

Be proud of your work!

This is a unique piece that only

YOU

could create!

So, I try to pass that forward.

Sometimes however I have days like today.

Life with a Great Dane

I had plans. 

Then I had more plans.

Things fell apart.

Then more things became scrambled.

Might have to go back to bed.

Or throw my computer out the back door.....

Cartoon cred: Sandra Boynton

A favorite of mine!

Now I do understand everything I am about to say

is incredibly trivial 

when compared to children starving

Innocents being caught in wars

and

the extinction of hundreds of species

Every Year.

Photo card: the Guardian, Nepalese children

My day so far:

My dog does not understand time zones,

turning clocks back or

Melted snow makes mud.

At 3:30 AM he decides he has to go out.

My husband usually lets him out and feeds him at 4:30 AM.

I sleep.

Not today.

At 6:30 AM he decides I should be up. Then he goes back to bed. Have never figured this one out.

I decide to check out a website. But when I look for it I see that yesterday I was going through blog comments and mostly deleting spam from it. I have a couple years of comments to sort!

So I start sorting and see a very good comment on Ukraine.

This is called a bunny trail.

It wanders all around but not to the main issue/goal.

She had a good suggestion and was polite about it.

I searched for the post.

Wrong format.

I try to find it again, etc. until after some time I am on the post

But can’t correct the information.

(See Great Dane photo above)

“Nope, not now, not never.”

- Cowardly Lion, Wizard of Oz

And so we have our learning curve title.

Cartoon cred: Sandra Boynton

Dog wants out, he adores eating snow.

Snow is bad for dog. He gets incredible

clear-the-room gas.

Dog goes to far back of yard, and eats snow.

I call dog, he ignores me.

Repeat. 5x. Repeat.

I have to walk 3/4 the way through our mud field we fondly call ‘our backyard’ to encourage him to come in.

Problem.

Did I mention MUD!!!

The next 35 minutes include:

8 bath towels

1 pair socks

1 pair tennis shoes

3 washcloths

1 bath mat

And

5 Milkbone treats

And last, but not least

probably a gallon of wet, sticky mud spread across a 4 room area.

I am exhausted. It’s not even noon yet, and I still have to clean up 2 rooms of mud in various stages of clumpiness and moisture.

Minion humor, unknown artist but prob’ly related to Pixar/Disney

Time to.... sign off.... zzzzzz

I will end with some Fall Leaves

😁

Unknown artist

‘Til next time,

But after more mud clean-up,

Perhaps a nap,

Finding that website I was looking for

And most likely a Twinkie,

Inkspired