Decoration

I put up a Christmas tree this afternoon. I wasn't going to but I hosted knitting tonight and thought it'd be festive to have a tree up. It didn't take me long to put it up but I like the way it looks. It's a Charlie Brown tree that I got at Walgreen's about 12 years ago. It usually lives in the bathroom but today it's in pride of place in the center of the table. It was a big hit with the knitters.

It was so warm when I went out to top up the birdbath this morning that I stayed out and filled the feeders. The Sparrows were the first arrivals and the whole flock came. There was a lot of jockeying for a perch on the round feeder...

... and a slew of Sparrows on the ground under it. They were all being calm pecking away and then suddenly every one of them flew away. It was like someone blew a whistle.

I also filled the cob corn and a Bluejay came to peck at the kernels. I tried to get a picture of it on the corn but it was all blurry so all I got was this silhouette of it on top of the fence. It's still blurry but I'm posting it.

While I waited for the knitters to arrive I pulled out the iPad and my drawing things to do the next lesson but I couldn't concentrate so I did a little and then put it away. I'll take another stab at it tomorrow when I'm not thinking of other things.

I didn't take a picture of the Bullet Journal pages I did yesterday so I took one today. It was fun to go back over the things I wrote down throughout the year and pick notable ones to use. I also had a hard time just choosing two pictures to put on the pages. I could have loaded them up but I like the mix of pictures, washi tape, and writing.

This afternoon I got to do the school run and got all the way home and in the house before I remembered that I meant to go to Zambaldi for beer to serve tonight. So back on went my jacket and I drove across town to the taproom, got the beer, stopped at Kwik Trip for bananas, and came back home. *sigh* It would have been so much more efficient if I'd gone there right from dropping off LC and OJ but I had to do it the hard way.

Three of the Christmas/Thanksgiving cactus flowers are open. Three! At! Once! In the history of the plant that has never happened before, and there are a couple other buds that look like they're on the verge. Amazing!

And now it's time for me to say goodnight. I'm tired and it's time to turn in.

--Barbara