All Day Snow Showers

It's snowed all day today. No, really, I mean ALL day. Not a lot of snow accumulated but every time I looked out some size flakes were falling. Sometimes the flakes were close together, sometimes they were far apart, but they were always there. They're still there. One of the squirrels leaped from the birdbath to the top of the suet cakes crook and then to the suet nuggets crook on its way to hanging by its back feet to have a nibble. I took this picture while it was still catching its balance from the leap.

 

This morning I drew a gratitude journal page for yesterday. Most of what I did yesterday was sit on Zooms. I like drawing the little peepers in the Zoom boxes, mostly because I'm not very good at drawing people.

 

I made lime jello this morning so it'd be jelled enough to be eaten tonight. I also emptied the dishwasher and folded the basket of clean laundry because I'm wearing my last pair of not-hand-knitted socks.

 

Today's drawings are a Pot & a Mixer. These are not my best efforts. I thought I was doing okay but then when I was coloring them I saw that they're a bit wonky. *shrugs* Oh well, it's not a graded course.

 

But I really like today's watercolor. It's Cornflowers, what my grandma used to call Bachelor's Buttons. We all know I'm not a blue fan but I like the way these turned out. I need to practice painting a straight stem but next time I'll turn the paper so I can paint from left to right, which is the easiest direction for me to control what I'm drawing or painting.

 

After supper I sat down to watch mindless TV and knitted a few rounds on the Campfire Hat #2 that I cast on last night. The yarn's supposed to be super bulky but it's half the diameter of the Licorice yarn I just used. Maybe once it's knitted up I'll soak it and the yarn will bloom. That makes me want to knit faster just to see if that happens. I bet it will.

 

I wrote 852 words today about Geneva, Rose's housekeeper, organizing a meeting of the women stuck at home while the men play with sailboats. Naturally Rose is included because the Point Of View is first person so she has to see and/or hear what's going on. Still can't figure out how to end this thing and it's over 310 pages.

--Barbara