Yesterday morning I noticed something small moving on my driveway at a good clip and had to go investigate with my camera. Normally I don't show my feet in a photo (particularly my ugly toes) but wanted to give a sense of size to this little critter. It was a totally different turtle than the other two posted this summer. And it's a GIRL! Isn't she sweet? Wonder if she was born here and where she was going?
Me thinks I need a Turtle Crossing sign in my yard.
You've seen the TORTOISE and now the HARE. This one is an adult and wonder if another litter of babies will be forthcoming. Gestation is only 4 to 5 weeks. Was careful to get a photo from inside the house and slowly opened the door to capture this poor photo.
No sooner did I snap the photo and it darted off to find safety of the unruly forsythia bush. That is the rabbit standing alert.
Later in the afternoon as this area was under a thunderstorm warning I turned off the TV and computer after printing out the pages below. Someone ordered a pattern and was in the process of taping it together when at 4:50 the power went out. Thanks to the boy scout motto of 'be prepared' had batteries ready to go for backup lights. Figured power would be back on in an hour at the latest. It became obvious after 2 hours I'd better get the candles and my other battery back up light ready too. So guess who had dinner by candle light ~ and no one to share the ambiance with? Had no way to heat up this precooked meal so it was still cool. But hey, I've eaten cold chicken, uncooked cold carrots so it was palatable and the cabernet made up for anything negative. Thank goodness it was left over and already cooked. And my dinner plus vino with flash this time.
Power was out over 5 hours; I'd gone to bed earlier and the house was quite warm. So turned the bedroom ceiling fan on so it would wake me up when power came back. Yeah, woke me up after 10 pm so got up to reset the clocks and turn off any lights in the house which I'd forgotten were on before power went out.
That was my exciting yesterday. Despite having no power I continued to hook on the Cottage with limited visibility. This will be interesting to see my choices of wool under those circumstances ~ and similar to those women of yesteryear. And don't plan to replace any wool loops from yesterday evening with poor light just because of the sisterhood of past rug hookers.
Happy hooking, stitching, knitting or whatever makes you happy.
