The birdbath was iced over when I got up again so I thought I'd put out the heater today.
A different Red-bellied Woodpecker showed up today just once. I could tell it's a different bird because the red on his head goes all the way down to his beak. Juveniles and females only have red partway over their heads. And this guy didn't hang on the perch, he stood on top of it and bent to the side to peck for a peanut.
Today the squirrel visited the suet nuggets and spent a bit of time nibbling away at them. I keep waiting for something to empty the nuggets but maybe I'll leave the suet cakes and nuggets out for the winter so the birds have some sustaining foods along with the open water in the birdbath.
The prompt today was Food Packet. I didn't want to draw something round like a can because I'm not so good at that so I pulled out a popular snack at Meemaw's, Scooby Snacks. My Scooby didn't turn out too badly.
I got an email from ProWritingAid about prepping for Novel November that got me thinking about my story a lot. I was squinting out the window hoping inspiration would arrive. It took about an hour before I had an idea to put on paper. I'm usually not a planner when I write. I'm what they call a pantser, meaning I write without an outline, by the seat of my pants. So it was hard to answer the questions posed on this page. Finally I managed to eke out a few paragraphs and that led me to adjust what I wrote afterwards. I did write just over 1000 words so I've got almost 3000 words written toward the 50,000 words I want to have by November 30th. I know it's cheating to start in October but I'm busy on every Saturday in November and there's Thanksgiving in there so I want to hit the goal.
At suppertime I realized that I forgot to install the birdbath heater. I was going to do it tomorrow morning but then I thought it wouldn't take that long so I just did it. It was cold and wet and getting dark but I got the job done. *dusts off hands*
And I even managed to draw a gratitude journal page for today. That's two days in a row. I'm on a streak!
--Barbara



