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What a beautiful morning today was!

I woke up to feed the chickens as usual. Got on my grubby clothes - because the chickens love to hop up and either stand on me (Jane) or snuggle and get warm (Birdie) - and a towel (for the cold, damp chair) and went outside. It was cool but not overly chilly and there were tons of cardinals and woodpeckers all over the backyard. So it was pleasant today to sit outside with them and watch the birds and wake up. :)

I came in and made some scrambled eggs (Jane's) and coffee, watered the violets and woke the parrots up for the day.

It was really a truly pleasant and relaxing morning. :) I'm almost finished with my coffee and then I shall be up and doing today's tasks.

Oh, and I'm wondering if it is too early to post a Christmas card list post this year? I haven't seen anyone else post one yet, but I'm really getting into the Christmas groove so I will probably post mine soon. ;)

Since last Saturday my husband and I have been ill, ill, ill. It's possible we caught the swine flu, we really don't know. He's healing faster than I am, but I'm starting to get there. I feel a lot better today than I have all week. I've still got a really awful cough and stuffy head. Due to our illness I haven't done much at all this week. We watched a lot of netflix movies (Up, Dirty Jobs), played a lot of Warcraft and slept a lot.

I also learned that its a bad idea to try to cook something and adjust the spices when you can't taste really well. I was making key west black beans and rice and it tasted SO bland. I kept adding a bit of seasoning salt (a little at a time) and then it was WAY too salty suddenly. oops! I put in a raw potato to help suck up some of the salt and mixed the beans with some bland rice and that helped a lot.

And I finally got hit with inspiration for what I want to paint for my Christmas card this year. I am not sure I can quite capture what I am imagining, but I will try! :)

Hey! Well, I'm restarting up this journal here. I really do love livejournal, one of my guilty pleasures. ;) Even though I seem to try to break away and start journaling elsewhere I always seem to end up here again. And I'm adding a bit of coding to my website to pull my most recent entires to my website so I need something here for it to grab for posting and see if its working or not.

And while I've only had one cup of coffee (my usual limit), I'm feeling strangely over-caffeinated and shaky today. Bizarre. Just plain Folgers too, so I'm not sure what is up with that.

Back to the web coding....


Edited to add:
Figured out the caffeine problem. It looks like I put in two scoops instead of one during my morning haze. oops!