Got It

The Red-Bellied Woodpecker came back to the suet pellets today and I missed it again.  But then it came a second time and I got it.  I wish that it had its back to me so you could see the black and white stripes but I was just happy to get its picture at all.

 

Then shortly after the Red-Bellied flew away a Downy Woodpecker came to check out the suet cakes and then when that feeder proved to be empty, it went up to the suet pellets and I got a picture of it.  Gotcha!

 

I wasn't very inspired when I sat down to write this afternoon as you can see by the blank page in front of me.  It took a long time to figure out what to write and fill this page.  Blank pages can be intimidating.  I spent most of the morning working at the Better Than Mom's manuscript again, rearranging the scenes that I put in yesterday so they made sense.  Chronological order is hard to maintain when you just write scenes and then slap them on at the end.  I kind of wish I had a paper copy of the manuscript because it'd be easier to rearrange things but I don't think I want to spend all that ink.

I went out in the cold wind this afternoon to look at what's sprouting.  The day lilies are coming up in a bunch of places...

 

... and the iris and poppies on the west side of the house are up too.  I'm trying to remember if iris spreads.  I think it does.  I'll have to note where it is this year and check next year to see if there's more.  I don't think I'd have planted that poppy in with the iris so I'm guessing that the iris has spread.  

Tonight was guild Zoom social knitting.  I knitted on the sock and got to the heel flap.  I decided to put it aside and work on the flap when I'm not on Zoom.

 

 

Today's toss was a pair of khaki capris that are too baggy.

The prompt today said to write an ad for a mundane item.  I chose a pencil.  It was an entertaining exercise.  There's a lot to say about an old fashioned wood and graphite pencil.

--Barbara