Not A Bird

I took a picture of something on the suet pellets this morning but it wasn't a bird. It was a squirrel. One squirrel has figured out how to leap from the birdbath to a crook and then over to the suet pellets feeder where it hangs by its hind feet and grabs the feeder with its front feet and nibbles through the mesh. It stays for quite a long time too. I have to believe that it hurts its teeth to gnaw on that metal mesh.

Yesterday I took a picture of the baby beer as it flowed from the mash tun to the kettle for boiling. It swirled and foamed and smelled pretty good. It was a nice brown color too. One of the first steps from water and grain to beer.

 

The next lesson in the drawing book, Half Hour of Pencil Power, was Three Monkeys in a Tree. They didn't photograph very well, but I enjoyed drawing them. They look better in person than they do here. Really.

At Friday Night Knitting tonight I finished the Wool Ease 2 Hour Hat. It only took me three three-hour Fridays to finish it. Like I said, I'm not a fast knitter but I'm determined. Now I have to think of something else to knit. Or maybe I'll crochet a hat next.

Last week while waiting for school to be out I started another washcloth with the brown denim yarn. This week I was working on it waiting for school to be out again and realized that I was down to about half of the yarn I started with but was nowhere near a regular size washcloth. So I started decreasing and it'll be whatever size it turns out to be.

I had company all day today so I didn't write or paint. I did meet GBB at the farmers market booth and she agreed to show off my books and try to sell them. That means there'll be two places my books are available for sale tomorrow. Hooray! I hope the Literacy event in Sturgeon Bay goes well too. Fingers crossed.

--Barbara