Squirrely

I didn't see any birds at the feeders today. All I saw were squirrels. And mostly one chubby one trying its best to sample all the goodies the feeders had to offer. First I saw it wrapping itself around the suet nuggets feeder enjoying the fruity goodness.

 

In the afternoon, the chubby squirrel did its best to figure out how to avail itself of the birdseed but it climbed up the crook and landed on the lid of the square green feeder. It shuffled around trying to find a way to the seed but eventually it gave up and went back to the nuggets.

 

But in between the visits of the chubby squirrel, this one did the patio chair leap and pulled itself into the square green feeder for a nice quiet dig through the seed for peanut halves.

 

This morning I worked on the day's words. The story isn't playing out the way I thought it would but the words are still coming, albeit more slowly than at the beginning of the month. But I'm not complaining. I wrote 1,534 words today which took me to 42,897 for the first 3 weeks of the Novel November challenge. I will admit that I started a few days early to make up for having vendor fairs on every November Saturday. I'll write on them but not at the level of the other days.

 

Today's figures were a Tent & Magnifying Glass. I liked drawing the magnifying glass and the caterpillar. There are only two more days' worth of figures left in this section of the book and then we move on to Holidays which should provide more interesting things to draw. I hope.

 

After supper I drew a gratitude journal page for today. Because it was a sunny day, I forced myself out for a walk. I need to do that more often because even that little distance makes me feel good.

 

At Friday Night Knitting, I put the thumb stitches on a holder and then started knitting the hand of Llama Mitten #2. I got a little over 2" done. I need to get to 4" before doing the top decreases and then circling back to knit the thumb. I'll be glad to have this one done. This dark brown yarn is challenging to knit on at night.

 

I loaded the car this morning when I was procrastinating writing. My table is in there too. We'd hoped to rent two 6" tables this week but she had only 8" ones available and if we used two of those there wouldn't be a way to get out of the booth. So I'm bringing my table because it's a little lighter weight to carry than GBB's table. Her hubby's at deer camp so he isn't available for hauling this week.

 

While sitting here typing this I kept hearing a hooting sound outside. It finally dawned on me that it's an owl. Very cool. I wish I could see it.

--Barbara