Another retirement party at the library...

Yes, as my title says, there will be another retirement party at the library tomorrow. *sniff* I am going to miss this person very much, but I'm glad she's able to move on and get away from our not very healthy workplace. Since she went on a date with Harrison Ford (and didn't like him) when she was in college, I just couldn't resist doing a little picture of him with a speech bubble for her scrapbook. Hopefully, she will find it funny and not be too embarrassed. I do have another page that includes text, but I'm just going to post the picture. Hope everyone had a good day. Mine whizzed by all too quickly.

The Hungry Little Library Caterpillar

We have little joy at our workplace, so we have been very excited about this hungry little caterpillar. He just sits outside the staff door on a milkweed and chomps the day away. Unfortunately none of us could find him yesterday. I am hoping that he was just taking a break from the munching and lounging in the foliage on the ground. It's about time for him to zip into his chrysalis. When I was a kid I raised many monarch caterpillars, so all of this stuff is not new to me, but it has been fun to watch this little guy and I would like to eventually see him fly away with his new, shiny, orange and black wings. Here is a little video I took with my phone. Even though the picture isn't all that clear, I think you can tell that he's munching and completely oblivious to all the commotion going on around him.

Tweets on the side bar...

As you can see I've added my tweets to the sidebar. Until I updated today, it had been 82 days since my last tweet. I'm what you would call an infrequent tweeter.

Overworked elephants...

I have been really tired the past few days and have been just sort of slugging around. I slept until noon today and still felt tired. Therefore, I just sort of lounged the day away and didn't do much of anything at all. It's amazing how fast the day goes by when you are just wasting time being lazy. This evening, realizing I hadn't done a damn thing, I decided I would do some elephants in color. These are a mixture of watercolor pencils and watercolors. As with most of my attempts with watercolor, they are overworked. Overworked elephants. With watercolor, less is more. I don't know much about watercolor at all, but I do know that one essential fact.

Tomorrow it's back to work for me. I'm sure I will be tired and sluggish again. At least I won't be at home overworking elephants. Elephants have rights, you know...

Hee haw

Do blue donkeys say "hee haw"? Or do they bray in a more exotic way? I don't know as I've never encountered one. This was another effort for the weekend drawing event. I was going to do more last night, but had movie night (with pizza this time) with my friend and I was so tired when I finally got home that I passed out on the couch immediately. I rarely go to bed before 1:00 and this was only 11:30. I guess having only a few hours of sleep the night before and then having to work yesterday caught up with me. I had strange dreams all night long too. They were more than likely pizza dreams. Fortunately they weren't nightmares. I still feel sleepy, even though I had plenty of sleep. Actually I am contemplating calling in sick as I feel unwell, in general. Even my blog entry is kind of sluggish...

Edited to add that I did call in sick, so I think I will stay home and draw more inky animals today.

Edited again to add: How could anyone resist such a charming product?

A Sketchy Sumatran Rhino

I am home again after being away for a couple of days pet-sitting my friends' dogs and I have done some drawing, so I thought I would blog. As much as I like dogs, I'm glad to be home with my cats. They are much less needy. Thanks for being cats and using a litter box, Phoebe and Frodo. The having to let creatures outside to do their business can be a bit of a pain, especially when they don't want to come back inside and you have to resort to all kinds of tricks to get them inside.

I suppose some people are out experiencing the Independence Day tradition of viewing fireworks, but I am not. I have been inside finishing my True Blood (my new favorite show) marathon and drawing. I do have to go to work tomorrow after having 4 days off and that kind of sucks, but I'm trying not to think about it too much. I am just going to spend the rest of the evening pretending I don't have to work tomorrow. I hope everyone is having a fine evening. I know I am.

Oh, Mr. Rhino was done for the weekend drawing event. You don't know how surprised I was to see a Sumatran rhino amongst the selections for this weekend. Obviously, I had to draw him. He was done with my Inktense pencils and an ink pen.

Another sketch of elephants climbing all over each other...

As my title says, more elephants. I still am drawing them so I have a selection that I can use for the website. I'm thinking that I may still do the html site so that I can actually design something rather than just using what the word press blog provides. We'll see what happens. I always have grand ambitions that lead to plans that don't always come to fruition.

I have 4 days off, starting today! Woo hoo! In real life I would never say "woo hoo," but in the blogosphere I shout it freely. I start a pet-sitting job tomorrow, but that's fine. It's just for my friend that lives only a few miles away and she has a nice t.v. and computer set-up, as well as a deck where I can bask in the sun if I chose to. I'm there a lot anyway, so I feel at home at her house. And I do love her dogs. In fact, the elephants pictured above remind me of them. One of the dogs is an old Golden Retriever and the other is a young German Shepherd. The old dog lets the young one climb all over him while he just lies there, hence my comparison. Yeah, I bet you thought I was going to say that they both have trunks or rough, wrinkly, gray skin, but not the case...

I got up early this morning. I think I'm just so thrilled that I have 4 days off that I want to enjoy them to the fullest, therefore, I woke up early so I could start the enjoyment. So far, so good... I'm enjoying coffee and some Baroque music at the moment. I think I may enjoy a bit of reading soon and then quite possibly some drawing. We'll see how things unfold. I like just letting things unfold (like all the clothes lying on my bed) without a plan. Work (especially a job one hates)tends to get in the way of that. Oh, one more thing. Later I plan on enjoying a tomato, mozzarella and basil sandwich (my all-time favorite). I enjoyed one yesterday and can't wait to enjoy another today.

Edited to add one more thing. The rhinoceros bootie boogie photo was actually an animated gif that I had created, but alas, Blogger took away the animation. I did read that you can get animated gifs to work by messing with the html. I may try that later.