They Found It

I filled the feeders yesterday afternoon and the wildlife found it today. First to arrive (that I saw) was this squirrel. It was diligently gnawing away at the suet nuggets. It couldn't have been the first because when it dropped to the ground I could see that about a quarter of the nuggets were already gone. Gluttons!

Then the Sparrows showed up at the round feeder. There were four birds on the feeder when I reached for the camera but by the time I had it up and ready there were only two left on the perches. But there were a bunch of them on the ground pecking at the seed and cracked corn that had been tossed out of the feeder.

I'm so much better at drawing a gratitude journal page in the morning that I'm going to post yesterday's page that I did today. I don't know why I can't seem to get myself to the table to draw and color it in at night. It doesn't take very long. Maybe I need the small psychic distance from the day's happenings?

Oh, man, I was nervous when I saw today's flower. It's Chrysanthemum. There are a lot of petals on them and I wasn't at all sure I could do it but I tried and it didn't turn out too badly. I'm getting better at leaves too.

I went back to Dr. Seuss's Book of Animals and drew this frog. I didn't know that frogs have hairs on their butts but this one does. There's an expression "as fine as frog's hair" which means extremely delicate or thin since frogs don't actually have hair.

Tonight at Friday Night Knitting I made it almost to the top of the super bulky hat I cast on last night. I started with Oatmeal colored yarn, added in the short piece of off-white yarn of the same thickness when I ran out of that, and then kept going with the pale, grayish Wheat colored yarn. I'll have some of the Wheat left over and a small clump of Oatmeal left when I finish. I'll think of something to do with it.

I had a cardiologist appointment today. I didn't know why since there's nothing wrong with my heart or my cardiovascular system. This was the Nurse Practitioner of the cardiologist I saw last January who ordered the blood test that saved me from dying of anemia. Nothing to do with my heart. I answered no to all her questions about shortness of breath and palpitations. Yes to being able to do what I want to do without chest pain. My blood pressure and pulse were normal. I was wasting her time and mine and my $40 copay. I did not make a followup appointment. It did make me comb my hair and put on earrings so there's that.

I got through another 40 pages of Horizon in between appointment and Zooms. And at knitting CP reminded me to use the Find and Replace function in Word to adjust all of the two spaces after sentences down to one space instead of going through the manuscript a page at time, one sentence at a time. Now I have 63 corrections to make instead of 3368. Ahhhh.

--Barbara