Mr. & Mrs.

Both of the Orioles stopped by today. First he showed up and went right to the grape jelly. After he'd had a few nibbles, he shook himself and flew up to the crook to preen a bit, then he flew away. 

Late in the afternoon she showed up. She visited the orange half and worked hard on getting bits out. Then she flew over to the jelly but only took one nibble before flying away. I'm not sure why she's so blurry. Maybe because that orange glass ball is forward of the orange half. Anyway, she's there, just a little fuzzy around the edges.

 

You know how they say day 2 of an injury is the worst? Well this afternoon I noticed that my knuckle that got clonked by the embosser crank has turned red. All I had yesterday was the little blood blister and a faint bluish tinge under the skin. Today it looks like I punched somebody. It doesn't really hurt but it feels a little stiff.

 

The drawing prompt today was Feathers. I copied her drawings from the book because I was too lazy to come back here to get the feathers I keep in a jar. I think they look like leaves. Don't you think they look like leaves? Somedays I despair.

 

After my walk, I sat down and cast on a hat with the green alpaca yarn I wound up yesterday. I knitted a few rounds of k1p1 ribbing. This is about 7 rounds, I need 22, but it's a start. I'll save it to knit on next weekend up at CS's cottage.

 

In the morning I slid the cards I glued up yesterday into sleeves with their envelopes. I like 'em. I was running low so now I have plenty more. I even have two I think would make good Christmas cards. I wonder who I'll send them to.

 

I listened to 12 more chapters of Spies Don't Retire audiobook and only had to make one revision note. There were a couple little booboos that I let slide because they just weren't worth the trouble. Twenty-six more chapters to go!

After lunch I decided to go out and weed a little on the retaining wall. I confess that I didn't do a perfect job but I yanked out a lot of viney weeds and some fluffy weeds. I'm too short to reach all the way back to the fence behind the wall so I am unable to do a more thorough job. I'm too chicken to climb up there and crouch on that narrow ground to weed it all. Then I moved down the wall to a spot across from the patio doors and pulled some perennial weeds that I can never get rid of. On my way to dump the weeds in the corner I pulled a bunch of leafy things that look like some kind of thistle that spreads by the roots under the ground. It's kind of fun when I pull up one and a long horizontal root comes up with two or three smaller plants on it. So I guess I weeded about half of the 110'. I'll go back out and do more. Maybe tomorrow since it's sunny but not too warm. 

--Barbara