2024 Happy Blog Challenge Continues

 Here are some happy Monday things: This morning, as I avoided getting out of bed, I swiped to this reel:  LINK .  If you aren't able to watch that video, let me just say that the person was suggesting that people aren't necessarily lacking motivation as much as they need to work on being more disciplined.  I'm not saying that he is correct, or that my interpretation is correct.  I have mixed feelings on this. I am saying it got me out of bed.  🙂 Keziah and I spent some time at the studio organizing things.  Between the arts & sciences over the weekend, researching my cousin Mary and  buttons, and spending time at the studio; I'm feeling inspired.  Keziah has been working on carving linoleum to do printing.  She has been selling some prints as patches.  I'm going to try to work more on projects, too. A friend has a cat they were given that doesn't like their dogs.  We are going to try and see if our cats will accept them....

For National Pet Day I decided to share some happy pet stories. Growing up my family had a dog named Skeeter.  He was a mixed breed, probably Labrador retriever and German shepherd.  I have some vague recollection that his name came from my not being able to say mosquito.  Anyhow, Skeeter was mostly very tolerant of me, the youngest.  I remember being able to use him as a pillow every now then.  He didn't let me ride him though.   When I was married, we had a cat named Jeffrey.  I'm not sure what breed he was,  but he was a tuxedo cat.  He liked to catch mice.  Before kids, we rented a second story apartment that had access to the attic.  Somehow Jeffrey got a mouse and chased it into the bedroom.  We were on a futon on the floor.  The mouse ran right at me to hide behind my pillow.  I don't think I ever moved so fast as I did that night!  I was off the floor so fast.  Jeffrey then proceeded to sit by t...