Funemployment

The reader may or may not know that I have been, for all intents and purposes, unemployed for the past month. The details are not important, just know that I had A LOT of free time on my hands. I really hate being idle and there is only so much job hunting one can do in a 24 hour period, so I did what any normal woman living in provo utah would do......okay, maybe I did what any normal hippy living in provo utah would do:

These are the fruits of my last hike (I WILL be going back for a picture from the top by the way, I just haven't done it yet.....Carrie, you know I'm talking to you!) Okay, maybe the books aren't actually the fruits, but the fruits, which are actually leaves, had to be pressed in these large and expensive books in order to become the amazing wall hangings seen in the next two pictures. It doesn't work if they are not large as well as expensive, and it helps if they put you into some kind of lasting debt to even think about owning them (don't let the USED sticker throw you, that just means they are expensive AND in poor condition).

Here are the leaves in their finished condition. I put them in a boarder on one wall in my room, I would have covered the entire wall, but I just haven't collected enough yet.

I tried to take a picture of my favorite leaves, but believe it or not, I couldn't decided which ones I liked over the others, so just love the ones you see and be happy.

The property I currently live on has some well established trees, I believe one is a mulberry tree and the other is quite possibly a black walnut. These are some of the bags of walnuts I collected from my backyard.

And then I removed the husks and sorted out the rotten ones. I was aware that walnut husks contain a very strong dye, so I wore protective yellow gloves, but apparently there was a hole in one of the didgits because now my thumb has the plague.

Or maybe it is just the black death. I even tried Lava Soap Dad, nothing.

I also tried to go a bit further on my trip around Utah Lake, I didn't make it all the way around but I did make it about 10 miles further than last time. Funny thing is, by the time I make a round trip out of it, I am only about 12 miles short of the total distance it would have taken to go all the way around (I went 58 miles round trip and the total for the full lake ride is around 70 miles)... anyway, I went farther than I should have riding a mountain bike and on a windy day, so it took a little while to recover from that one. Maybe next time, and maybe with a real road bike. I don't remember how I made the picture last time, but this one is pretty cool because you can move it around and zoom in or out if you want.

So the moral of the story is: I started a new job as a cook last week and although I had me some fun while I wasn't working, I am glad to be making deposits again.