Woodpecker Rides

There's one juvenile or female Downy Woodpecker that regularly lands on a Slinky and rides the bounce before flying over to the suet pellets or suet cakes. It came today and I managed to get a picture of it on the Slinky. It investigated the empty suet pellets feeder then went over to the suet cakes for a snack. The Flicker came back too but I only saw it in the grass and it was too far away for a picture.

I watched a squirrel leap up to a crook with a black walnut in its mouth and couldn't figure out what it planned to do with it. Squirrels are scampering all over with the nuts burying them here and there. This one got placed in the grape jelly and abandoned. Will it come back later to retrieve it? I'm not leaving it in there for long but I'm curious if the squirrel will come back.

The UPS guy brought my Amazon order today, not an Amazon delivery person. Maybe it was too heavy for Amazon. It was one of those white 6' folding tables and it was way heavier than I thought it'd be. I took the advice of the woman in charge of the Military Business Assn. at the farmer's market last week and ordered the brand she recommended as being more durable. Good thing it has a handle or I'd never be able to haul it around. I didn't think where I'd keep the danged thing so I just slid it in front of the car in the garage. If I took it downstairs I'd never get it back up!

I didn't have a lot of motivation today so I just pulled out 20 Ways to Draw a Butterfly for things to draw. I like the chicken and the hummingbird I think because they're colored and because they look like cartoons. I like the dragonfly too but the hang glider, the heron, and the flying pig are just okay.

I went to an Amazon Ads webinar this afternoon and I swear I don't know if there's any way the guy who leads these things could talk faster. He skates over the information so fast that it's impossible to take notes. I stuck it out through the "commercial" where he tries to sell his Author Ad School which I am sometimes tempted to join but I'm a little afraid of what I'll learn that I'm doing all wrong. I'll probably sign up one of these days and knuckle down to learn if my blurb, covers, and keywords are helping or hurting my sales (what few of them I have). I only bailed on the Q & A at the end. He said they'd send out a replay; maybe I'll watch again to see what I can glean when I have the ability to pause it and make notes.

I walked today. Good girl, Barbara Sue! Thank heavens it cools off as soon as the sun gets close to the horizon. I'm waiting for fall weather to arrive and I hope it shows up before or when I go to The Clearing at the end of the month. I'd like it to be cool please, not hot and humid.

--Barbara