The Philanthropic Heliotropic

When Sunflower was a little bud

And sat outside to play

He followed, with his face, the sun

Until it dipped away.

As he grew older, all a-flower,

He soon changed his gaze

And kept his face turned to the spot

The sun was due to blaze.

Finally, when it was no more

His day in the sun

The face that launched a thousand blooms

A bird feeder had become.

Sunflower anklet here.
Sunflower bracelet here.

Finch on a sunflower from this blog

Baby sunflower found here.

My Dog Does Homework

by Kenn Nesbitt

My dog does my homework
at home every night.
He answers each question
and gets them all right.

There's only one problem
with homework by Rover.
I can't turn in work
that's been slobbered all over.

These dog charms will only slobber on beaded homework.  They can be adopted in my eBay and etsy shops.

Hey, Mom! Look at the kittens!

Skunk charms in my eBay and etsy shops.

Watch Out for Flying Cats

If birds could pounce

And cats could fly

How crazy it would be.

We'd call the fire department

When our bird went up a tree.

We'd bell the bird

And salt the the tail

Of any passing cat

Who was in need of catching

While the birdies stalked a rat.

We'd feed the worms to pussy gato,

Tuna to the tweeter.

There's be nests of fur and then

No birdie'd need a heater.

Kitty cats would turn their heads

To watch us with one eye.

And let's not even think how cats

Would pelt us from the sky.

These sky blue kitties are in my etsy shop.

How an Eyeglass Chain Saved the World

(this is an example of foreshadowing)

I lost my glasses the other day.  Well, not lost them, exactly.  You see, I have many pairs of glasses.  Many, many, many pairs of glasses.  I have the pair of photosensitive bifocals my optometrist lovingly crafted for me, adjusting the height of the line over and over because it was never quite right, and he really wanted me to like them, but between the laptop and the piano and the beads and the cooking, that poor line was never in the right place.

Then I had my two pairs of sparkly glasses that I bought online for 8.99 a pair.  They were red and had rhinestones.

One pair was for extra close up work, like finding a piece of jewelry in the Bead Cave.  The other pair was for kind of close up, like reading, or cutting the choke out of an artichoke.

I also had a pair at the karate studio, for when I needed to see something there.

And I had several really bad, really cheap pairs of really strong glasses for beading.  When I unwrapped the first pair of those, the lenses fell right out.  (These aren't my beading glasses.  My beading glasses don't actually look this good.)

Well, I broke first one pair of red sparklies and then the other pair of red sparklies.  I couldn't play the piano at all.

I was forced to wear my bifocals while I looked for new sparklies. I almost killed myself walking down the stairs.

One morning, after my shower, I couldn't find the bifocals anywhere.  There were no red sparklies to be found.  The website discontinued them.  And my karate glasses were at karate.

(this is another example of foreshadowing)

This forced me to wear my beading glasses.

I spent the day feeling kind of nauseous.

So finally I felt my way into a CVS and stumbled around until I found the glasses rack.  I borrowed a pair of glasses off the rack to look for glasses I liked, and then used those glasses to read what strength I had chosen and what the new sparkly glasses would cost.

I bought two pairs.

(this is another example of foreshadowing)

I went home with my new sparklies.  I played the piano and worked at the computer and cut the choke out of an artichoke.

I even found my bifocals.  They had fallen behind the toilet.

(You didn't really think I was going to use a toilet picture, did you?)

But just think... if I had used an eyeglass chain, I wouldn't have lost my glasses in the first place.  Well, actually, I would have, but they might have beene easier to spot with a bunch of fish on the chain.

I made these for you so that, if you ever lose YOUR glasses behind the toilet, you'll just need to feel around for the fish.

I do not, however, guarantee that this will make cutting the choke out of an artichoke any easier.

Eyeglass chains in my eBay store.

Artichoke instructions online.  (I recommend using a melon baller.)