Flighty

That's Mourning Doves in one word. There was a good-size flock of them under the feeders pecking around for spilled seed but when I reached to pick up the camera they flew off as if I had threatened them. Doves. I held the camera for a few minutes and managed to catch this lone Dove stopping back for the drink.

I decided that today would be gift wrapping day. I carried down a basket of gifts the other day and I grabbed another laundry basket and carried down the rest of them today. It took me longer than I thought it would to wrap them all and I missed Durwood because he was a much better and more enthusiastic gift wrapper than I have ever been. But I managed to get them all wrapped including two gifts for LC's birthday which is early in January. I need to pick up a couple gift cards and then I'll be done shopping. I think. Maybe I need one more gift for someone small...

On the next page of Sketching were cartoons of office supplies so that's what I drew. They're silly but I enjoyed drawing them.

I turned the page in my sketchbook and kept drawing stuff that was around me--a mug of hot chocolate, the pencil I was drawing with, and my phone. Then I decided to draw the Cat in the Hat's hat that is on the cover of Seuss-isms. I needed something colorful on the page.

There was a three-hour series of David Attenborough shows about the Great Barrier Reef on the Smithsonian Channel tonight so I watched it and knitted on the Limited Edition Wingspan. I guess I added an inch. The more I knit on it the shorter the rows get. I like that part.

Today is the third day of no sunshine and I'm getting a little tired of the drear. Lack of sunshine means lack of energy for me. *sigh* It's going to be a long winter if it keeps being like this. I spent what would have been writing time wrapping gifts today so I didn't get any words on the page, but I'm glad that the gifts are wrapped.

--Barbara