Got a Lot Done Today

I had a lot of energy today. So I took a walk in the morning. I had a critique zoom with cda, did three loads of laundry (not folded yet), and trimmed down the backyard tree shoots. This trash tree or maybe two was growing on the lot line over the past few years and early in the spring I commented to the neighbor that I wanted to cut it down. The next thing I knew she and her husband, with their new little chainsaw, had cleared the area. I noticed the other day when I was weeding over there that the stumps had sprouted a bunch so this afternoon I took the loppers out there and cut them all down. I hauled the trimmings to the curb. There are no pictures.

 

But in clearing out the tree sprouts I uncovered this pale pink day lily. It must have been lurking in the leaves and burst out when I cut things down and dragged them away.

 

Next to it were these three yellow & rust day lilies. This is the first time there has been more than one flower on this plant.

 

Dad's roses are still going strong. I like that a few buds at the end of the canes bloom at the same time so they look like a little bouquet.

 

And I haven't gotten around to trimming the purple mums so there's that. Maybe I'll just leave them since I didn't plant any flowers in the pots along the front of the house. The weeds are thriving in them, tho.

The Catbird visited the suet nuggets today. It usually hops around on the ground looking for fallen seeds but this morning it went right to the source.

 

I did two drawings today. This one I did while waiting for the clothes dryer to buzz so I could go downstairs and hang up shirts. It's called Mindful Circles. It's very meditative, just drawing circles in a pattern or no pattern. The instructions say to relax and think about drawing circles, to not just dash them off. I enjoyed it. I'll do it again when I need to pass the time and don't want to read or knit.

 

After supper I drew a gratitude journal page for today incorporating my zoom, the laundry, and integrating cda's comments on my submission this week into the manuscript.

 

Also after supper I knitted the last two rounds of the leg of the Iron Pyrite Sock then got started on the heel flap. Naturally I screwed up the first pass across the heel stitches and had to back up two-thirds of the row but at least I found my mistake early and didn't just keep going. 

 

Days like today when I get a lot accomplished make me feel great but also make me feel like I should do that all the time. A lot more of the weeds I sprayed yesterday have withered and yellowed. Now I have to figure out how to remove them. I'll think of something. There was a Red-tailed Hawk in the neighborhood today. I didn't see it but sure heard it. All the chipmunks hid most of the day and when they did come out they were running.

--Barbara