Two more mobile jewelry studio pieces. A turquoise and sterling silver ring and a Cloud Mountain and sterling silver pendant. Both of these pieces use scalloped bezel wire, bead wire, and individually set and soldered silver balls. There's a lot of sparkle in the sunlight. I made this ring a lot smaller and the only finger it fits is my pinky. 🙄 Clearly I need to work on sizing. #SupportArtistsAndMakers

#SilentSunday #BryceCanyon

I've quit for the day. Sore back. 🙄 Decided to sit on the sofa with a blanket over my legs and I immediately became a lounge spot for the girls. #DogsOfMastodon

@inthehands @grumpy4n6 You could say the same for motorcyclists. We still have a few states that don't require helmets and plenty of people who won't wear them.

I’m updating my online #jewelry shop today. I'll try to tag all of the posts with links #ShopUpdate so you can mute them if you want to. I don't expect there to be many update posts.

First up are the handmade glass bead and sterling silver earrings I made yesterday. The price reflects the high cost of the handmade beads. (Buying these supports two artists!)

https://square.link/u/cweycsvH

Did I mention that I was going to an Oktoberfest at the yacht club this Saturday? Check out the name of the band that will be playing.🤣

I should not have waited to tie that fifth dock line to the boat. The rain just started and the wind is blowing it horizontally. The boat is trying very hard to get away from the dock. I am fortunate to be behind a solid stone breakwater, as close to land as possible. I really feel bad for the folks out on charters this week because the weather is supposed to be like this until Friday. I'm not going anywhere and just hope that it clears up by Saturday.

I don’t know if I mentioned this, but I’m at that age when my friends are dropping dead around me. Alyse died about a year ago and her family is (finally) having a memorial for her today.

I’m not looking forward to it. I don’t know most of her other friends and family. I don’t believe that she’s looking down at us from some supernatural paradise (or looking up from a bad place). This won’t benefit her or me.

But it might benefit one or two of her other friends or family members. So I’ll go.

This is a pretty good example of the local earthmoving guy serving two clients at once. One of my neighbors is doing some work on his property that requires the earthmoving guy to remove a bunch of basalt boulders. I need work done to partially fill in a gully and widen my driveway. Instead of dumping the rocks elsewhere, the earthmoving guy is simply moving them from my neighbor's place to mine. I think he's got one more load to dump today. (1/2)

All three of us benefit. The neighbor doesn't have to pay to have the rocks dumped elsewhere. I don't have to pay to buy the rocks. The earthmoving guy doesn't have to drive the rocks all the way into town or some dumping area.

Apparently, the neighbor is moving more rocks than I can take, but I trust the earthmoving guy to give me exactly what he needs to finish the job. #RuralLiving (2/2)

Three older people are walking past my boat on the dock as I'm covering up the boat's back seat.

One of the women says, "Did you back that boat in all by yourself?"

I reply, "I sure did."

And she says, "That's what I heard!"

Apparently, I'm the talk of Dock C.

#boating

Well, I just finished this one. Bumblebee Jasper in sterling silver. I really think I could have done better, but my heart just isn't in it, at least not today. #jewelry #SupportArtistsAndMakers

I came up for lunch but I'm not very motivated to go back downstairs and get back to work. I've got two new pendants in progress and my to do list says I need to make three, so back down I go.

@jeffowski @donlamb_1 I don't agree with this entirely. I've had 3 solid careers that no one could say I "failed" at when I moved on. I was just ready for a change. I'm working on careers #4 and 5 now. Both are looking good.

Staying with the guy I eventually married for 29 years may have been a mistake, but I wouldn't call it a failure. (A failure in judgment, maybe.)

But a lot of my hobbies do turn out to be fads or stages. I get bored with them and move on. 🤷🏼♀️… (1/2)

I'm starting to think that visiting airline customer service before your flight and being really nice and apologetic for bothering them (with a dash of confusion) is the best way to get a free seat upgrade. (I think the gray hair helps.) I just went to confirm I was checked in and he printed me a new boarding pass with a window seat in an exit row -- and no seat in front of me. Can you say LEG ROOM?

So now I'm getting my shoes shined. That was always the BEST part of killing time in airports.

Some interesting thoughts on enshittification, by the man who coined the term, @pluralistic :

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems

We had lunch at Sweetwater, where the big boats go. #boating

One of the neat features of this marina is its "Water-Loo" out on the guest docks. It's a pair of restrooms on a float. Decent facility with real flush toilets. It's great mostly because it saves boaters a 0.3 mile walk down the dock to land. (Yes, I measured it.)

I just want to remind everyone that no good deed goes unpunished.

There is, of course, a story behind this, but I'd rather keep it quiet so as not to offend the punisher.

It was just about 10 years ago that I planted this damn tree after finding it growing in a garden bed one spring. I never expected it to get 40 feet tall EVER but here we are.

I planted another one like it on the other side of the house. Let's see how that does.

And yes, I know I have to put my stuff away.