squirrel nest.

headache, migraine, headache, migraine, headache. not much helps. i ate a salad yesterday evening and that helped for a bit. i rode my bicycle off into the gloaming, Discovery blasting thru my earbudlinks. and then my stupid phone kept ringing. i should just disable the phone when i'm using it as an ipod. biking should be about traveling and not people calling me on business. i stopped at the tracks and watched a freight train pass by. i've been learning all the different cars....grainers, gondolas, boxes....and where and how you can ride them. i may never catch out, maybe years from now once jj is grown....but someone said that train hopping is part of 'the great american adventure' and that pretty much sold me. totally dangerous and stupid. i should just fly out to europe, get a rail pass, and see where it takes me for a few months. safer, but also more expensive. maybe once the farm is in full production and there's less to worry about around the homestead. i haven't been on a real vacation in quite some time. the thing about europe is that i don't speak much of anything but english. i have studied french, german, and japanese...but my brain can't seem to retain much more than standard greetings and oddball phrases.


finally! it's autumn! late summer storms were rolling through the other day and blew three baby squirrels out of their nest. lee heard them hit the roof over his office and went outside to see two of them hanging from the gutters and one on top of the a/c unit. so pitiful! we quickly gathered them up and dried them off...
we've been feeding them puppy formula from an eyedropper and they're growing by leaps and bounds! this is our second time to rehab orphaned squirrels...they are the cutest things ever! about seven years ago we found 3 babies drowning in a tree nest that was quickly filling up with rainwater during a storm. they were crying so loudly we could hear them from inside the house! it's pretty amazing how quickly they can bond with their human counterparts. we worked with them for a long time to make sure they were ready to be re-released into the wild, and once we did, they would visit us on occasion. hopping out of a tree onto our shoulder, taking pecans from our hands. i hope these little guys do just as well.

on a more business related note, i've felt a bit burnt out since Cowtown. i missed the last 2 san marcos farmer's markets, but this week i should be back. this really is a terrible time to not feel like working! i have more shows this holiday season than i've ever had before so i really need to buckle down and WERK. on october 19th, i'll be showing off one of my textile creations....my version of Delilah....for the Dangerous Women show at the ND in austin. 12 designers, 12 models, 12 dangerous women through time! november 5th and 6th is the Girlie Show in OKC, the next two following weekends in november are E.A.S.T. and i have a booth with my mom at the Vortex Theatre, and then December 4th and 5th is Wheatsville Arts Festival (which i still don't know my status of entry as of yet). and in between all of that i have the SM farmer's market and online sales to compete with. so yeah, i better get to work.