Making the best of a not great situation...

I was excited for an early winter storm.  A day of staying inside watching the snow fall while enjoying a hot cup of tea.  What isn't great about that?  This:

Yesterday as we were getting to watch my niece on the local high school quiz show our Bradford pear decided it couldn't take the weight of the snow anymore. At the end of the storm it looked sad but beautiful.

Now as we wait in the long line for the tree removal guys to come we are trying to find the bright side of the situation.  Apparently our tree was doomed from the start due to poor Bradford pear branch structure.  This was apparently going to happen eventually.
We will have firewood.  Maybe not as much as we first thought, but we should get a little stack out of it.  Searching for "firewood" pins I found these cool ideas (that probably won't happen).

No original source found, re-pinned...

Originally from FunTimesHad.com

 Originally from It's Hard to Find A Friend on Tumblr

All said and done this is what it probably will look like after it is seasoned and we get something to hold it in:

Originally from mrpearl11.com

owls... my other obsession

I don't remember much about my Grandma Peggy except that she really liked owls.  When I was little she gave me a key chain shaped like an owl with my name on it.  I am sure she gave me lots of things, but this is the only thing I remember.  Fast forward 30 years, my mom finds the key chain in the armoire in my old bedroom and gives it to me.  Seeing this 1970's key chain totally set something off in my wacky brain chemistry because now I am fanatical about owls.  I have them in my house, in my pins, in my mind.

"I guess can you pet me since you are tagging me...."

You may ask if I have ever actually seen a real owl.  The answer would be no.  I need to bug the ornithologist at work to take me out with her owl tagging. This would be utterly amazing.  Until then I will satisfy myself with non-animate owls, making felt owlscapes in my spare time...

owlscape #1

Pinitiation

I am pin-obsessed, admittedly I don't pin constantly, but it does give me focus. I need focus, life moves too rapidly.  Days, months, years pass way too quickly.  My pins help me to visualize my goals.
I am pin-motivated.  It makes me want to follow through and do/make/see things. 
This is the story behind my pins and beyond my pins - my pinterpretation.