Not My Favorite Color

But I do like when Bluejays visit the patio bird buffet. Today this one came for a drink of water after I topped up the birdbath and filled all the feeders. It also had a go at the cob corn.

 

Shortly after that, a Downy Woodpecker landed on the edge of the birdbath for a sip or two. I was hoping it'd fly over to another feeder so I could get a better picture. It flew over to the round birdseed feeder but landed on the back side so all I saw was its shoulder. Drat.

 

Squirrels appreciated the filled bird feeders, horse head feeder, and cob corn. I watched a squirrel stand up on its hind legs and stick its head into the horse head feeder but none of the pictures turned out so I can't show you.

 

I managed to fit five things onto the gratitude journal page for yesterday--2 zooms, a walk, writing a decent number of words, and of course, the weather report.

 

For the first time in three days, I had time to draw today. I skipped the bird's nest which was next and turned the page to find a Hummingbird to draw. There was no way I was going to draw every little straw and branch in the nest. It looked like too much work to be fun so I made an executive decision and skipped it.

 

I did laundry today. A lot of it. I hadn't done laundry since before I swapped short-sleeved for long-sleeved shirts, so when I say a lot of laundry, I mean it. I pulled out a second basket to collect the summer socks in so I don't carry them upstairs and then back downstairs. That seems like a lot of extra work. I could just as easily sort them coming out of the dryer.

Writing went pretty well today. I wrote the detective interrogating the sleuth. She storms out. He drags her back. Then she has a brainstorm that interests him, but he covers up his interest. I ended up with 1221 words for the day. I'm over halfway to 50k words and tomorrow is the middle of the challenge. I'm feeling alright about it. I don't know if I'll make it all the way but I'll keep working at it.

There's a home Packers game tomorrow and I'll need to go to the grocery which means I wait until after the kickoff so the place isn't teeming with people. If I wait an hour, it's much less busy with crazy people buying tailgate foods and snacks. I think there'll be a flyover too. Yesterday a loud plane kept flying over but I never saw what it was. With the nationwide grounding I was surprised any plane flew over. I heard a couple coming in to land today but nothing like usual. What a mess. 

--Barbara