All-Squirrel Wrestling

I was finally lucky enough to see the juvenile squirrels wrestling and be able to take pictures of them. One shot is pretty blurry but this one is more in focus. I wonder if they make noise while they're wrestling.

 

Today's drawing is a Luna Moth. I tried my darnedest to make the two sides of wings match each other and don't think I did too badly. Then I sharpened the colored pencils which made a huge difference in coloring the drawing.

 

Checked Dad's roses to see if any were blooming and found this rosebud just unfurling. So beautiful, so red, so sweet. Once again I resisted picking it, leaving it out there to be enjoyed and not plucked to die in the kitchen in a vase. Even though the vase is cut crystal. And there's a bud tucked up under the lower right side, so more to come.

 

And around the base of Dad's rose bush the purple mums buds are starting to open. Every year the purple mums start to bloom in July and most years I go out and trim them back so they don't bloom until September like they're supposed to. I haven't decided whether I'll trim them this year or not. I'm thinking about it.

 

 After supper I sat down to knit on Teddy Bear #2. I finished the 12 rows of belly, although I was at row 8 when I noticed that three rows back I'd purled half a row when I was supposed to knit. Damn. So I pulled out the needle, ripped back the stitches, picked the stitches up again, and kept going. I was impressed that I could count the rows because this fuzzy yarn makes seeing the stitches hard. It's easier to count the purl rows because they don't blend together like the knit side of the piece does.  Besides, it a stuffed animal. Who's going to count rows to make sure that the belly and the backside match?

 

I was very relieved this morning when cda wasn't upset at my compilation of her three epilogue versions into one. There were good parts in each and I thought it was a shame that they didn't all make it into the final version. Fortunately she liked it. Whew.

GBB and I are doing the education at the Writers Guild meeting tomorrow night so we met this afternoon on a short Zoom to plan what we're going to say. I have a feeling that there won't be a crowd at the meeting, don't know why, but whoever comes we'll talk to them about newsletters and different ways to use them. I have notes.

--Barbara