A cloudy Sunday ...

  The goldfinches have swapped out their winter colors for the flashier yellows to attract all the ladies.  I'm working some overtime today (Charlie is pouting) and on a quick break a few minutes ago I could hear the red-winged blackbirds in the trees tho I could not see them.

  Four of the peonies I ordered arrived today, and I'm going to attempt to get them into the ground on my lunch, leaving room for the remaining 2 that has also shipped.   We have a small chance of rain over the next few days.  Some of my 200 bulbs have started to surface above the mulch I put down [I'm so excited!!!]  I was going to space the peonies out down the side of the house, but recent flower porn catalogs have me changing that plan.  Good thing I doodle in pencil.  I'm far too impatient for seeds at this point and so may look for some perennials flowering shrubs already semi-established.  I'd like to find some that will provide berries for the birds this winter.

  I found this gorgeous chair on the Facebook Marketplace last week and splurged $40 when I shouldn't have to get it.   The claw and ball feet just grabbed me.  Even managed to drag it upstairs without killing myself, tho a few times I was a little worried that might happen.  I've decided to use it as my journalling/meditation corner but may move it to the other side of the room which is a little bit wider.  

   I want to find a vintage lamp, and perhaps a pink or aqua blue pouf for a footrest.   While the upstairs tends to stay warmer than the rest of the house, the intake vent for the heat and a/c is in the corner that I want to move it to and may get a fuzzy throw blanket to use.  Gracie likes it as well and sleeps in it at night.  We've had discussions about how much I like the chair and how much she needs to value her toes.  I have an aqua pillow cover I may swap to the will tie into my bedding colors a little more.  The candle is a lavender/chamomile scented one that I love, and my pen mug says Namaste.

Needs some TLC and 
furniture oil.

  I've been looking for a chest of drawers to fit in the corner it is currently in because my antique oval mirror that hung in my grandfather's house hangs there.  Eventually, I will get the house and room settled the way I'd like, and hopefully not have to change much, although I have been thinking of asking the landlords if I can pull up the old carpet [which reeks in the spare bedroom from the previous tenants' pets] and put down wood flooring, even if only laminate self-stick pieces.  At this point, I would never want to set it up as a guest bedroom because of the residual odor.

  Looking ahead to being here after if I get to "retire" or if when I get another work from home job that pays a little more or offers better benefits, I may move my "office" upstairs to the spare bedroom where I can close and/or lock the door as required by some wfh companies.  It would mean losing my view of the bird feeders, and I'm not sure if more money and benefits would be worth that sacrifice.  Just kidding, it would.  I could get an outdoor security cam and stream the action on my laptop.