An Inch An Hour

I only knitted on the Waterlilies Roll Brim Preemie Hat tonight at Friday Night Knitting and I added three inches to the hat. So that means I was knitting at a rate of one inch per hour. Doesn't seem like much but it's better than no inches per hour. I think I would have gotten farther on the Gray Bear (because the yarn is thicker and the needles are bigger) but I spent so much knitting time this week on the Toast Bear that I thought I'd give the bears a rest.

This Downy Woodpecker flew in this afternoon and landed on a Slinky, then went over to the platform feeder, and finally settled on the suet cakes for a nice long snack. It's either a female or a juvenile because it doesn't have the red swoop on the back of its head.

A Cardinal showed up and chased all of the other birds away from the platform feeder. It disturbs me that such a pretty red bird can be such a bully.

And a squirrel leapt from the birdbath to the top of the suet cakes then to the top of a crook and hung down upside down on the suet pellets nibbling away. I don't know how they can eat so happily when they're hanging there like that. 

I drew a few figures from 20 Ways to Draw a Butterfly (aka Things With Wings) and really like the little fairy second from the top on the left just under the beetle. I wasn't at all sure that I could make her look good but I think I did okay.

Here's another Dad's rose. Just because I can.

I spent some time today finding a place to insert a scene I wrote the other day. I'm working my way through the manuscript adding scenes to flesh out the story and I think it's going well. Watch. Now that I said that it'll turn to worms. BUT I've got just over 50k words which makes me very happy. Only 30k more to go!

--Barbara