Falling Leaves

When I turned around at the corner stop sign to walk back home I saw how much the trees at the curve in the court had lost their leaves. There's a constant drift of leaves past my house but my little tree's leaves haven't turned yet and neither have the leaves of the huge maple in my neighbor's side yard. That one waits until the last minute to shed its leaves.

 

I got an email from ACX, the audiobook production arm of Audible/Amazon, that my six audiobooks had been switched from exclusive distribution to non-exclusive distribution as I requested. That lets me find other outlets for my audiobooks. So I started uploading them to BookFunnel which is one distributor, and got the 3 Seaview Series books done. There's another outlet called Chirp. I started the process to upload through them but have to wait 24 hours to load my payment accepting setup. I'll do that Sunday. This is exciting stuff!

 

There was a big flock of Sparrows vying for seats at the square green feeder and on the suet nuggets too. I took a couple pictures even though they're not the most photogenic of birds.

 

A Downy Woodpecker visited the suet nuggets, the suet cakes, and then the birdbath for a drink. I was grateful it stayed long enough to have a picture taken on the birdbath. They don't stop there often.

 

The Red-bellied Woodpecker was next. It's either a female or this year's juvenile since its red head stops before the beak. I was just in time when I snapped this picture because they always fly away as soon as they find a peanut half and there's one in its beak. Lucky shot!

 

Today's drawing prompt was Still Life. I don't have a lot of different fruits on hand but I did just buy a 5# bag of little oranges so I put three on a plate with a few grapes and got drawing. It's all right.

 

At Friday Night Knitting tonight I finished the thumb of the first Llama Mitten and got all the ends woven in.

 

Then I cast on the cuff of Llama Mitten 2 and got this far before the ball of yarn ran out. Don't worry, I've got a lot more of this yarn (at least 3 balls) but I was hoping to get through the cuff before I needed another ball. 

 

This morning I went over to St. Mary's Hospital lab with my bloodwork order and had blood drawn. I have to tell you the phlebotomist was absolutely fantastic. I didn't even feel the prick when he inserted the needle, he hit the vein the first try, and it hardly bled when he removed the needle. AND even better my hemoglobin is 13.6. Hooray! 

Tomorrow morning the landscapers are coming to do fall cleanup around the yard. I called this morning to ask to be put on the calendar and he called back about an hour later, laughing, because he'd already put me on the schedule for tomorrow. Good thing I know that. Sometimes I sleep until 9 so I'll make sure I'm up and decent before 9 when he guessed they'd arrive.

--Barbara