One Bird

I saw one bird today and it didn't stick around long enough for me to take its picture. It was a Nuthatch and I was glad to see it. So I searched my photo archives and found this shot from 2021 that's a pretty good approximation of how it looked on the feeder this morning.

 

Yesterday's gratitude journal page was a cinch to draw. The weather was crappy, I was over the moon grateful to spend an hour with DS on his birthday, I managed to move my writing around so I can maybe figure out where I am and where I'm going, and I even knitted a few rounds on the Alpaca Sophie scarf.

 

I got an Amazon delivery today of books I'd ordered over 4 weeks ago. They were delayed so Amazon refunded the shipping cost, which was nice of them. But there were only 24 books and I ordered 25. The box was totally full so I'm guessing they're sending the 25th book separately, only Outlook is down so I can't check on the status of that lonely book. When I was stocking the books in the cartons, I realized that I'm short on copies of Sailing the Seas. I have 3 in the house carton, 2 in the car box, and 1 in the rolling bag for shows. So I ordered 8 more which won't arrive until the end of the month or the beginning of December. Hopefully what I have on hand will be enough.

 

And here's a picture of the entire Christmas cactus plant. I've decorated it with a fused glass plant stake from KA, my watercolor teacher at The Clearing, and a jeweled plant stake I bought at a craft show last month. But look at all of the flowers on that plant! I've never had blooming like that before in all the years of the plant. 

 

I didn't accomplish as much today as I'd hoped. I didn't draw or paint, I didn't walk (it was too cold [42] and windy) but did do yoga, I washed my compression socks but didn't do laundry, and I wrote 1,012 words of the sleuth and the detective talking about suspects. I have to write 609 words to hit 25k, which is halfway, but if more words come tomorrow I won't quit early just to hit that mark.

--Barbara