When you're Mudcatting, what's surrounding you? What's your workstation littered with, and/or is it organized?

Mine-- a corner of the living room at one end, with a corner-shaped desk, part of which Hardi made me from ash and poplar.

Most important paperwork between keyboard and monitor; keys, MP3 player just charged, usually spare specs to put on over regular specs to see the monitor more clearly. 18" monitor. Next-most-urgent- awaiting-action items on either side of the monitor. Usually a medium sized file rack to the right, but now there's a very tall fluorescent, full-spectrum light I haven't put away for the summer yet.

To either side of the desk chair, like wings off the main desktop, two low sets of cubbies (one on each side) that sit under tall, narrow Victorian windows. Each cubby has three sections where projects and/or fresh printer paper pile up. A printer sits on top of each-- one for regular B/W printing on regular-weight paper, the other has color and can take thicker photo paper.

Behind me, facing the living room and anyone present to jam, autoharp-playing table with room to write chord progressions for new material, with work in progress. No 'harp there for now because Hardi has it upstairs refelting it, but its space is taken up by a scanner not in use.

Also nearby is a very large wicker basket that used to be a plant-holder for a medium tree, bought at a yard sale to use as a wastebasket. The bottom was almost rotted out when I bought it, so its lined with a plastic bag that never leaves it when I empty it. It's BIG, makes a havy load of paper when I empty it, and what fills it is all the paper I waste when I'm printing stuff to proof for our soungbooks. And slips of paper I collect around parish events-- contact info for instance-- once whatever was on them has been handled.

In the windows, various gifts and cards, including woodworking lovelies from Hardi and Dharmabum. Outside, scenery: to the left, the shady front porch, evergreens, sometimes hummingbirds, traffic, larger birds, bats at night, and often storms arriving and blowing by. To the right, whippy overgrown evergreen with birds' nests, sometimes hummingbirds, small side yard, creek that had a cow jump out of it one day, wild rabbits, dsometimes a cow in the driveway, utility trucks, Hardi coming home, and the neighbor's yard that usually contains Faulkner's beagle.

Often a cat on my feet. Above the monitor, bird wallpaper.

~Susan