Bait

I had a small assistant today and he was enthralled by the baby bunny that visits my patio. He decided to put out some baby carrots (even though he said carrots give bunnies diarrhea!) and some birdseed to see what the bunny liked and who else would visit. I'm charged with taking pictures so I can share what's happening. First to visit was a very skittish Sparrow, then the chipmunk found it and the chippie was a big fan of the seed. Just before I closed up shop for the night I saw the bunny had come back. Something had taken one of the carrots and moved another one, maybe a squirrel because a couple of them were hanging around too, and the seed was seriously depleted. I blame the chipmunk. 

 

We got to see the male Oriole twice, both times on the grape jelly. I was impressed that OJ knew it was called a Baltimore Oriole. Sharp kid. We also were lucky enough to see a male Hummingbird but he sipped on the back side of the feeder so we only saw him when he flew up and back a bit before taking another sip.

 

I found out today that the Gray Catbird is also a fan of the orange. We didn't get to hear its call though and the call I found on my phone didn't sound anything like a cat. Disappointing.

 

I got a delivery from Amazon today of the remaining 36 books in my order of author copies. I'd hoped that they'd break it up into two boxes since they'd sent 19 books in the first shipment. But, no, they crammed them all in one box that weighed a ton. There were "Heavy" stickers all over the carton and "Two Person Lift" stickers too. Well, there was only one adult person and one 9-year-old person so we rolled the box end over end and got it into the kitchen where I unloaded it, signed all the books, stickered them, and put bookmarks in all but the last 5 because I've run out of bookmarks. But, never fear, more are on the way!

 

Today I drew Mushrooms. They were fun to draw with a pen and then color in with colored pencils. I was supposed to draw Fungi too but aren't they the same things?

 

I only managed to knit five rounds on the Llama Gathering Hat tonight at Friday Night Knitting. Partly because it's slow going since I'm following a chart and that takes me a while. We only met for an hour and a half because KW wasn't feeling well so she went to bed and LB and CP were going to bingo at Ikea. If you get bingo you get a $25 Ikea gift card. That's worth a couple hours of play, I think.

 

So I went downstairs and unearthed some more alpaca bulky yarn to cast on another simple hat . I'm determined to knit up the bin of alpaca and llama yarns I have. This is some yarn I got in Indy about 7 years ago when I was on my way to Lexington to visit DD. The color isn't my favorite but it's pretty and somebody will like it--and the needles match.

 

I worked on the manuscript a bit on my Kindle this afternoon. I'm about halfway, I think, and have made lots of notes. When I write a manuscript for NaNoWriMo I don't use contractions to up my word count so then I have to go back through and fix them all when I'm turning it into a real book. It takes time. 

Time for me to hit the hay. I'm kind of tired and I've run out of things to blabber about.

--Barbara