Gotcha!

When I fill the cob corn feeders they're usually all eaten by a chipmunk. Today a Bluejay stopped by and didn't stay long enough for me to even touch the camera much less take a picture. But then it came back and it did stay so I could take a picture. And it's actually in focus even though all of the crooks and feeders were between me and it. Gotcha!

One of the squirrels realized that the suet nuggets feeder was refilled so it leaped up and over to the feeder and hung on nibbling. As usual it hung there with its back to me so that's what I got, a furry back and tail.

Since Friday Night Knitting goes from 6pm to 9pm I don't have time to draw a gratitude journal page that night so I drew it this morning. Then I zoned out in front of the TV tonight after supper and didn't make one for today so you get the yesterday one tonight.

I did paint this afternoon. This is the first in the wildflower section of Wildflower Watercolor. The first section was wild herbs. This is a picture of a plant called Spanish Broom. Never heard of it. Never seen it. So I don't know if this looks like it or not but I like the way it turned out, especially the leaves. I turned back to the "techniques" section of the book and practiced painting these leaves on a scrap of paper before painting them for real. I think it worked out pretty well.

After painting I came back here and wrote for a couple hours. I continued the scene I started Thursday evening and wrote 1804 words. Hooray! I was surprised that I managed to write at all because I was feeling pretty down in the dumps this morning but I pulled myself out of the depths somehow and got some words on the pages. Words that I like too.

Oh, and I finally got the Ad School videos to play. I had to log out of the site and log in again and they worked. Thank goodness. That was my last hope.

Last night at Friday Night Knitting KW said that she was completely out of dishcloth cotton. I told her not to buy any because I have so much I'd make her a care package. So, I went downstairs, pulled the two (2!) milk crates of balls of dishcloth cotton off the shelf, and pulled out the duplicates and the colors I didn't think I'd ever use. My intention was to give away half. I don't think I went that far but I got close.

I thought about going out and mowing up all the leaves but then I saw a thing on Instagram by the Horticulture Manager of the Botanical Garden and he said to leave the leaves because they decay and put their nutrients back into the soil and insects and butterflies and moths larvae shelter there. Sold! I may take the leaf blower out and move the top layer but I'm not going to do a thorough job of it.

--Barbara