It's the time of the year to join the "Top Nine"...whatever you call it...thingy...where you "click the button" (my brain is mush) and it searches through your year of Instagram photos and assembles a collage of your nine most popular photos. Mine is pretty cute this year :-).
Two from Wovember, one of silly Mini Moose and the rest from Lamb Camp at Final Frontier and Tring Farms. I kind of thought Frankie would show up somewhere, but as we all know, it's hard to compete with babies ;-D.
The card is painted and printed and hopefully going in the mail this afternoon. Whew! It was a real struggle this year and I'm not really sure why. Now that's it's done and I'm almost 48 hours away from it, I'm pretty happy with it. It's cute and sweet and I think everyone will enjoy it.
Here's a funny story...Saint Tim's superpower is making me laugh when there seems to be nothing to laugh at. After several super late nights struggling (unsuccessfully) to paint the card, I got up (still too tired) the other morning to find Eli's tree ("the stairway to heaven") had fallen down after the latest 3" deluge of rain.
The tree was very old. There were only a couple branches left on it and they were barely, but bravely hanging on. Eli used it to climb up to the porch roof (his "office"). I framed pictures of the back of the farm through it's lacy leaves. Momma birds raised babies in the hollow trunk. It was a good old friend.
I stood there staring at it...turned and walked back inside...stood in the kitchen...didn't pour myself a cup of coffee...finally went to tell Tim...and then the tears spilled. Tim's not as sentimentally attached to trees as I am, but it was Eli's tree and it was special because of that.
He listened to the tree story, the unhappiness with the card painting, the "I wish I'd stopped after last year like I'd said I was going to"...and "clicked the button" in his brain and said, "You should just download the Loony Tunes font and plaster "That's All Folks!" across the front...and all I could see was Maisie pasted in where Porky Pig usually is, saying "Th-th-th-that's all folks!" :-D
That's (probably) not all folks, but it was just what I needed.
Keep laughing!
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