Just add hot cereal

 I know the latest thing uploaded and shared here is related to fall and not spring, but I think its equally cheerful none the less. 

This little collectable, (to me anyways) is something from the last time I got to visit my relatives overseas. I miss them very much btw and sadly I'll never get to see my aunt again in this life. She died recently from complications of covid and cancer. The last time I spent some time with her and other family was in 85. Far too long. 😞

Anyways this little collectable is from the back of a quite popular hot cereal box traditionally eaten by children in Croatia. Apparently its still quite popular there. I had saved a few of the boxes after we came home and enjoyed some of the cereal. Not sure where the other unaltered box is but here is the back one of them. You can see we have featured here playful squirrels made of paper. It was one of the many things you could make and other activities that came with the box. Not uncommon with cereal boxes over here too.

This one also features a cute jingle you can play along as a song with your voice or instrument I guess. 

The cereal is great too. Who wouldn't love a choco hazelnut flavoured cereal to fill you up on a cold morning. Now that's the way to start the day. But not too had to make your own version. Just purchase your favorite hot wheat cereal and choco hazelnut spread and mix it in with your own favorite additives. Then enjoy! 😊

The butterfly bush or weed

Just some lovely pics I took last year of my butterfly bush/weed. They had finally made it to blossoming after many seasons of frustrations. First I just couldn't get the seedlings to survive after insects and other critters ate them in the small pots. Or was it just not the right type of soil? Not sure but the next year I decided to use a soil that wasn't loaded with compost. That was successful. There were other problems after that too. By the time I tried again in another season I was left with one successful seedling that actually grew enough to be planted.  Good thing, I was only left with one last seed. So after I planed it and it grew to a nice plant, thinking it was just another weed, my dad nearly killed it off. I was pretty disappointed at my dads kill happy hands. Well another season goes by and in the spring I get a surprise. The plant came back and this time later in July I think with a crown of beautiful bright orange blossoms. So pleased that finally after my hard work and persistence I finally got my butterfly bush. 
So far it really hasn't attracted any butterflies but a few hover flies and other things.
This year it made even more blossoms and the only thing it managed to attract were lots and lots of aphids with their keepers the ants and one ladybug. No seed pods this year because of the infestation. 
Oh well there's always next year. 😏

2015

Well its 2015 and already we have all kind of crazy calamities mostly by people. What a non-surprise.  When are people as a society going to grow up from our childish ways? Childish as in being such as still exhibiting primitive behavior only one-up from acting like animals who by the way, live mostly by impulse. When are we going to stop living by the sword, dieing by the sword?
Don't you realize that two wrongs don't make a right? Harsh words and actions are like a sword but kind words are like a useful kind gift to soothe the heart. Really tired of stupid. 




On a lighter note I'd like to share this wonderful calendar I got one time on a Friday just before the holidays finished. It came with my Chinese take out. Thought it was chocolates at first but as you know well they're not big on chocolates. Opened it up and out came this really cool and colourful looking calendar with of course the characters of the Chinese zodiac. Although there is one character image that's a bit of a brow riser. You'll know what I mean. Not sure what they were thinking there.

 Enlarged so you can see your Chinese zodiac character^

Um yeah LOL^

One step forward 2 steps back

Great news, my small illustrations got accepted at this one illustration place. Yay and that means I’ll be making some much needed cash.

Bad news, my little baby doves died. Sigh….. :( I suspect it was because it might have been the cold night we had yesterday. I found them squashed in the nest, with one of them barely alive. Probably the male as usual tried to keep the other doves out other then his favorite female but then I guess he gave up. They were so close to coming out of the nest, just opened their eyes and had already grown some of their feathers. Sigh….. what can you do. :`(

I think next time I’m in that situation I’ll try to find the surrogate dove parents their own place and hopefully they can succeed.