Warming Up

It got up into the teens today! The sun shone and made an icicle hanging from my gutter. Just one. Not a whole row of them. Only one.

 

The Downy Woodpecker came to hammer away at the remnants of the suet cakes. One day soon I'll have to wade out in the snow and refill all of the feeders. Maybe I'll strap on my snowshoes to do it.

 

The Sparrows worked really hard yesterday and today emptying the round feeder. When I opened the drapes this morning there was a thick layer of cracked corn on the snow under the feeder and one squirrel made inroads. Finally the Sparrows and a Mourning Dove took charge and worked on cleaning up. You can see that the rabbits have visited too. They left their calling cards (rabbit raisins).

 

I found a picture of these bell flowers in Draw 500 Fabulous Flowers. They were fun to draw and color in with a black pen.

 

When I went to close the drapes in the living room I saw that the horizon was tinted that beautiful pinkish orange so I had to take a picture. 

 

I got to do the school run today and spend the evening with the small people. We're planning a crochet lesson date because they both want to learn. LC has had one lesson and OJ hasn't. He asked tonight what would happen if he goofed up. I told him that all he'd have to do was pull out the stitches and try again. That there's no problem with mistakes, they're not permanent. I think he was relieved.

Tomorrow morning is The Clearing signup day for Life members, of which I am one. I'll be on here at 8am sharp so that I'm certain to get into the classes that I want and get the rooms that I want. With any luck, in just over two months I'll be going up for watercolor class. The Women's Writing Retreat isn't until the last week of September but I'll be at The Clearing for a weekend writing retreat the second weekend of March which is coming right up. Hooray!

--Barbara