finally able to bead again

The day after my last post I got home from work and found that our internet was down. I live in the Midwest and we’ve had TONS of storms coming through lately so I waited a while before giving the internet company a call. I’m glad I didn’t wait too long, b/c surprise surprise the problem is on my end. After some troubleshooting with the cable guy we narrowed it down to my router being weirded out. For some reason the thing thinks there’s 4 computers hooked up to it, and so it won’t let either of the two that use it to work. I attempted to reset it but that didn’t work, and so I was left with the advice to call the company for help. UGH, I’m not a computer person and I really dread calling a company for troubleshooting, so I’ve been putting off fixing this problem until the weekend.
On that same day we also met a new neighbor of ours. I’m not sure how long he’ll be living by us, but it was quite the surprise to see him. We stepped out of the house that evening and I stepped on something. I kicked what I stepped on and looked down, and there was a small snake. It was quite angry with me and coiled up in the I’ll-bite-you-if-you-make-me pose. The angry little guy then proceeded to slither into a crack that is in our front stoop, so I don’t know if that’s his home or just his get-a-away hiding spot. After some research yesterday we’re pretty sure it as a Western Fox snake. They eat mice, frogs, and birds. They’re a constrictor snake and nonpoisonous. This one was just a baby, it hadn’t even developed its full coloring yet.
After last weekend’s wire-fest with Mom I’ve been ready to work on some flowers all week. Last night was the first night all week that I felt in the mood to work on some flowers. Of course I didn’t get into a really good groove until about 930 at night when I had to put everything away. I’m hoping when I get home from work today I can jump right back into that groove. I have a definite plan for one flower. I’m playing around with two ideas for two other flowers. I have a flower that has the petals done, just needs some leaves and lacing. And I have a small bouquet that I have a good idea of how to finish. I haven’t posted pics of flowers up for a while, but they aren’t far from my mind. I’m hoping to have a few more finished flowers to post up in the next week or so.

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