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NO, I HAVEN’T GIVEN UP PHOTOGRAPHY…

For those of you who may have wondered if I’ve given up photography, ( which would be a normal thing to wonder considering my latest blogs)…No I haven’t given it up…just in the mood to let my mind wander, you’ll be bombarded with pictures of chipmunks or something else as soon as “the mood” passes.

My mind is reeling..so much has happened…dreaming of a career with the circus didn’t work out as you may know…you can read about this debacle in an earlier post…..dreaming of a career as a stunt pilot did not work out…..and the heartbreak of failure as a “wing-walker” was almost enough to make me admit defeat….

I said “almost” enough….but…DO I GIVE UP? DO I BURY THIS BURNING DESIRE TO WRITE ROMANCE NOVELS….(did I just say that out LOUD? I MEANT to say, THIS BURNING DESIRE TO WRITE THE NEXT GREAT CLASSIC).!!??!! NO I SAY!! NO!! I WILL NOT LET MY LEGION OF FOLLOWERS DOWN!! And may I just say that you two followers count as a legion of followers to me….you have the hearts of a lion!!

In the great tradition of the worlds greatest warriors, I WILL NOT GIVE UP!! I have decided to follow my dream of being a “Miner”, you know…the fearless, adventurous,men and women of the wild west, who “panned” for gold in the mountains……

FIRST!!!!! I must assemble the appropriate attire for this rough, tough life of a mountain woman…I will saddle the horses and “giddy-up”, I will be off to the “Miner’s” costume, er, apparel shop. I’m thinking for this dream of a career I’ll need something practical….perhaps those zebra striped boots over there next to the pink “tutu”. Is it just me, or would a “tutu” make me look fat?? I’m buying it anyway…now I need some sparkly pink suspenders to hold my tutu…the only thing left to buy is a gorgeous buckskin jacket with lots of fringe and a big shiny sheriff’s badge…(I need the sheriff’s badge because it’s shiny).

I’m taking my trusty squirrel friends and the raccoon and the horse and the monkeys along….just in case I get hungry………WHAT?? A girl’s gotta eat!!

Things were going SO well……the monkeys were really awesome at dipping the pans in the water and then shaking them all around..they got so excited by the sound this made that they started dancing!! It would have been fine except that I had seen that the pans were full of gold nuggets!! Before I could stop them,they started banging the pans on their heads…grinning with glee…well this drove the squirrels into a frenzy…

The squirrels thought that the gold nuggets that had been in the pans, was corn and they had just watched the monkeys throw the “corn” high into the air…this caused squirrel OUTRAGE !! They immediately ran to me grabbed my tutu and screamed to the heavens!!! Well of course this rattled me just a bit and I began to turn one way and another, trying to stop the monkey dancing and the insane squirrel screaming…I turned faster and faster until I was spinning in a circle and the squirrels were flying straight out from my tutu, screaming in fear…..one by one, the squirrels were thrown free of my tutu and like guided missiles they found their monkey target and scared the “unmentionable debris” out of them…

The horse’s eyes were bulging out of his head, the fear was so intense…so intense in fact, that he was producing his own “unmentionable debris”.

Where was the raccoon during all of this? Sitting under the horse, eating nuggets…nuggets of GOLD!

My tattered tutu in ruins, my sparkly pink suspenders wrapped around my neck….I did the only thing I could do….I took my shiny sheriffs badge, and by the power vested in me….I ARRESTED ALL OF THEM!!!