Bark and the Barn next door

The Barn
Ash Tree Bark

I enjoy going for walks out past the barn, and this time of year it's really neat to see so much growing. There are fields on all sides of our place, and the barn next door is vacant except for the pigeons which are many.

I had a pigeon I named Victor. I found him when he couldn't fly, and he was pretty friendly I thought. Mr. Nelson ate him. (The Cat) and while I felt bad, I did enjoy him while he was around and that's not what I can say for most pigeons. I was particularly interested in using a Jess on him to keep him tied up.

I went to hear a retired Veterinarian who worked for years and years with birds of prey. He had all kinds of stories, and I loved seeing the pictures of the different birds he had saved. One I remember, was a Golden Eagle. She had been found starving to death because she could not hunt. She had one eye that had been gorged and healed. She was taken to a human ophthalmologist, who discovered that though the bad eye had long since healed it had caused an infection to take over the other eye so that she could not see at all. The Golden Eagle depends on sight to be able to spot it's food. After giving it the same drug that is proscribed for humans with the same condition, she got better enough that they were able to surgically remove the rest of the dead eye and return her to the wilds where she once again thrived. Visit FIGI Online

Music Lessons

I give music lessons. I have two students, Amy 9, and Tim 11. To be more specific, we play guitars together. I go to their house every couple of weeks and we do a lesson for one of them, then sometimes, we all just play together and sing for the next one. It's a lot of fun! I went to the Library yesterday and renewed my Library card. I found a book that we barrowed a long time ago and checked it out again. It really has some neat stuff in it, and I want to show it to Tim and Amy next time. It's called The Everything Guitar Book

I learned to play the guitar without lessons, but I have to admit, I was spoiled. I sure didn't learn on my own! We had quite a large group of youngsters in a church group that all learned at once, and aside from a couple of very patient examples, we all considered ourselves learning on our own. I can remember nine beginning guitarist playing for special music... Wow. Or was it seven beginners and two pros? I can't quite remember. That was 6 years ago.

If you are interested in playing the guitar, there is a lot of good stuff you can find on the internet that is free, and easy to use. Drop me a comment if you have a couple of questions and whatever you do have fun! I always tell my students, if they don't practice, they won't sound better, but they should practice because they want to and they should have fun at it because nobody is trying to make them sound better if they don't want to. It works half the time. I just shrug it off when they don't practice much because I know they have other things they are interested it. There is nothing worse then having to do something because someone else wants you to, and not because you want to. By the way, I consider these kids advanced.

See ya,
Mary

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Musings,

I some how stumbled across a page advertising Rob Benwell's ebook "Blogging to the Bank" earlier today when checking my Free Auto Bot sign ups for Kombucha World. Interesting, the guy is making money blogging. Heh, I think it's kind of funny how you some people make money on accident. My brother Luke is thinking about putting out an ebook on composting and worms. We are going to sell it for $1 on ebay.

My Kombucha site needs a little updating. I talked to my friend Alfred, just a few minutes ago on AIM, and he has been doing great with his Kombucha. He has 4 batches going right now, and he's sharing it with friends. He bought the kit a couple of months ago, and he says "kombucha has been fun for me, it's an eatable science experiement." He likes the taste too, so that's good. In case you are wondering, you can go to Kombuworld.com to see what I'm talking about. I'm going to add his little comment to my site.

I've personally been selling Zappers on eBay for our home business, Zapperplans.com and have been doing well. I have an ebay store, so I can list a lot of them without paying huge listing fees. I've been averaging $300 a month at it from the beginning, so that's nothing to spit at. I think I could tweak it just a bit, but it's kind of on auto pilot for me right now. I want to plug in the Colloidal Silver Generators that we've got built, but our only set back is we haven't completed a detailed instruction sheet. It's an easy task, it's just finding the time that's hard. We are planning to sell them for just $10 each, like the Zappers. I really think they will be a big hit.

I've been playing around with more blogging software. Nucleous seems to be pretty hot. We've got it built in to some of our hosting, but we haven't got the domains pointed right to let it out. My blog, Kitchen of the Opera is a heap of fun. I hope to get it actually publishing soon on all locations. I've got about 4 for it.

Anyway, drop me a comment, I'd like to know your interests.