When I finished writing yesterday's post, I looked upwards from my typing to run across this:
He wanted me to know that I hadn't opened the door for him yet. He needed to instruct exterior correct away too select grip of him some grub. There isn't much grub running to a greater extent than or less correct now, but amongst persistence, he commonly comes away amongst something. I dear the agency kitties twine their tails to a greater extent than or less their feet to maintain them warm. Unless they're Sadie...then, no tail. Maybe that's what makes her such a practiced snuggler.
After that, I did a piddling to a greater extent than operate on Cricket.
About that fourth dimension Matthew showed up. He wanted some assist edifice a bed platform inward the dorsum of his van. I'll nation to a greater extent than close that inward merely a minute. While he was there, I traced out the embroidery sampler for the February Stitch-Along.
Continuing on amongst my "gathering" efforts, the floss came a few days ago. Look at those pretty colors.
I'm non certain why I received 2 skeins of each color because I solely ordered one. But, what the heck, right? It makes upwards for them leaving out a skein inward a previous floss "kit" I ordered. We were traveling when I discovered I was missing one...and besides, it had been years (literally) since I'd ordered the kit. It didn't actually seem fair to instruct complaining thence far downward the road. And since nosotros were traveling, nosotros were fifty-fifty literally "far downward the road."
I was all laid to do the tinting on my sampler too, but thence I watched Meg Hawkey's video close how to tint amongst pencils too realized I nonetheless needed a few fine art supplies. I'll have got those inward a span of days, too thence I'll complete it off too have got it gear upwards for stitching.
So the guys took off to purchase some lumber, too I took off on a walk. The solely light-green matter growing (aside from moss) is the woods of sword ferns or polystichum munitum, if yous insist on using their snotty botanical name. These guys carpeting the sides of the route too the woods floor.
There wasn't much to run across on yesterday's walk. We were to a higher house the clouds, too thence I walked upwards to the top of our hill. Along the way, I noticed the colors inward the bark of these wild cherry trees.
As I passed past times my vecino Equus caballus too mule, the human neighbor, Larry, was out doing some things inward his yard. Even though I held upwards the horsey treats too shook the bag, they were much to a greater extent than interested inward whatever he was doing. I walked on. Getting closer to the top, I startled these guys. There were iv of them inward all, too they took off running. But thence I started talking to them, too they came back. I would have got given them the horsey treats, but I don't know who owns them, too I bespeak to inquire permission. So anyway...all I did was accept pictures of them. Sorry close the fence. I was afraid if I walked closer, I'd scare them again.
This i seemed peculiarly curious too came correct upwards to the ground to swallow his grass, eyeing me all the way.
It was a piddling foggy at the top of the hill, too thence I couldn't accept a picture. On the agency down, I stepped out of the mist too was able to select grip of this shot. I had to tally the photographic tv camera high over my caput to instruct to a higher house the ground there. Kind of a weird shot, but it's what I saw.
When I got dorsum to the house, I did a piddling to a greater extent than operate on Cricket. It helps to have got the ears there, too Cricket is starting to emerge.
That gave me the boost I needed to rest motivated, too thence I added the ear on the other side.
That's where I left it for the day. Today I'll outset adding inward to a greater extent than details to a greater extent than or less the ears too filling inward the face.
After that, I went exterior to run across what the guys were doing. They'd finished the platform too loaded inward the mattress. Matthew is pretty excited close it because he tin give the axe sit down upwards on the mattress (rather than needing to duck his head), too there's also storage infinite nether the platform. He's getting his van gear upwards to do some traveling when the conditions warms up.
It's a chilly morning, too thence I intend I'll snuggle nether the blankets amongst Sadie too do some operate on my slow-stitching project. I bespeak to instruct something going inward the ho-hum cooker too do some housework. Other than that, I'll merely proceed on amongst Cricket's pawtrait. Probably I'll accept a pause from that too brand some other block for the Christmas Countdown sew-along.