I've just told a very bad pun

Jami is trying to ignore what was a very bad pun, but as you can see her smile is about to erupt in breathless guffaws. Here we are at the auction for the Solarium last evening and my birdhouse is coming up for auction [photo forthcoming]. I can't remember what I said, but instead I'll use an old stand by: we have birds in our chimney, Chimney Swallows, and they're the most amazing birds. They're very tiny and sometimes they fly into the house and Jami gently apprehends them and releases them back into nature. She'll say, " a chimney swallow just got in." and I'll crow, "How a bird that small can swallow a whole chimney I'll never know." It's Gold! and the best part it never gets old. Each telling is just as fresh as the first time.
The woman holding back gales of laughter in the photos above is the most beautiful woman around.

Thelma on the red chair

Thelma is our cat who lets us know that every pain existent in the universe is felt: she is a compact estheometer, calculating each micron, each nanon, each googlian of despair, suffering, sorrow in this wide world. She takes all this and filters it though her soul and it exits her mouth as a tiny mew, a meow so small, that even when she's underfoot, I've been fooled into thinking that I've heard the sounds of a dying civilization from billions of light years away, just before it disappears into the event horizon of a black hole. But it turns out to just be this little kitten standing beside her empty dinner bowl.
In other news I finished a bird house to raise money for the Solarium. It was a conventional three hole birdhouse with a large central section. I'd stretched plastic over it, hammered nails, tacks and tooth picks into it, and covered it with duct tape. Then I'd painted it shiny colors and painted a mysterious figure in the back. And then I forgot to take a photograph of it before I delivered it. I suppose that I will have to take a photo at the auction this Sunday. I definitely want to post its image here as it's very wacky.