I Was Lucky

I happened to glance out this morning and there was the Red-bellied Woodpecker clinging to the side of the round feeder in plain sight pecking away at the seed. I hurried to get the camera up and ready every second thinking that it would fly away before I got a picture. But it didn't. It stayed for quite a while. Long enough for me to take five shots, all of them crap except the first one. Oh well, at least I got one good one.

This afternoon I paged to the next lesson in Half Hour of Pencil Power and found Humpty Dumpty head down in the mud. Silly, I know, but it was fun to draw and I really like his legs and feet. The shading really brought it to life, especially the tiny shading of the crack.

 

This evening I remembered to draw a gratitude journal page. In the afternoon I loaded up the big cardboard boxes that wouldn't fit in the recycling bin and the gigantic bag of bags and went down to the Recycling Center on Broadway. There's a window in the wall of the place with a yellow frame and you put your cardboard through the window. There was a big sign that said "No Plastic Bags" alongside. Rats. So I had to go to the grocery on the way home and take my big bag of bags in and plop it on top of the bin because it was waaaaay too big to fit into the bin. I also got to go next door to pick up the rent check and saw baby Eli for the first time. He was having a snack so I didn't get to hold him but I got to touch his cheek. So soft. I took over one of the bears that I knitted and a little newborn hat that I made so he can stay warm when winter comes. I suspect that his big sister who is 2 yrs. old will play with the bear first. And I ate the rest of the tiny loaf of homemade bread with butter and a little cheese for supper. So good.

I stared at the manuscript for a while this afternoon and I wrote the November writing progress email that needs to get sent out on Friday. I figure that counts as writing. I also had an idea that I plan to try out tomorrow once my Zoom with KM, the virtual assistant, is done.

I got a haircut today too. She cut my sides to be worn forward on my cheeks but I'm so used to having them tucked behind my ears that I couldn't stand it and tucked them back once I got home. I do like the rest of the haircut though. I think. We'll see how much I like it once I take a shower and have to do it myself. I don't have the hairdo gene. I can comb it and that's about all.

--Barbara