Just paid college for February. Ouch. Let’s hope they save the world. Or at least take care of me when I’m old.
With daylight savings time, it makes it hard for me to get home early enough in winter to walk the dogs, but yesterday I ran home and changed and threw them into the car to beat the sunset. I got to one of my favorite hiking spots and out of the car and there’s the old guy with his two ancient dogs and then I see the path. Yes. That is the path. Those are ducks swimming down the path. Huh. Damn.
OK. I can do this. Hiked around through the brush and found a spot to go over the stream (because now there’s a stream), but the mud wasn’t as solid as I thought…
Hmmm. Well that’s what boots are for, right? Impressive.
Saw this on the trail. Assume it’s for photographing wildlife, so they’ll enjoy Simba pooping and my scooping it up into a bag.
It was gorgeous out…but when we got over to this side, the second valley, Simba started balking like crazy. I picked him up. Calli didn’t show any signs of distress, so I took my headphones out of my ears and heard the yipping, fairly close, of a small pack of coyotes. Huh. Well.
Over there. Never saw them, although they did get fairly close at some point. We did turn around and head back…at a fairly fast clip. I didn’t think they’d bug me and the Golden Retriever, but the little guy is a delicacy.
I’ve seen coyotes out there twice at a distance, just watching, but never heard a pack.
The path was crisscrossed with many streams from the massive rains a week ago.
It was awesome to get back out there. We were glad to get home and relax a bit after. We all have our own way of relaxing, right?
Me? I stitch. I put flowers on all those stems from yesterday…which was three colors, three strands of thread, so more than I have been doing in one night.
Then I headed in to quilt. I wasn’t sure it was going to go OK, so I was hesitant after all the machine problems last week. Kitten meditated for me.
But after a slow start and a broken needle, everything was fine. No tension issues at all, the bastard.
It’s going to take a long time to quilt this. I worked for about 2 1/2 hours yesterday and I don’t even have the whole oven door done. I did go up the sides a bit on each side though.
Putting it up on the machine to keep cats off of it.
It’s a big quilt. Expect to see me quilting for days.
The dogs stopped bugging me at some point. I stayed up way too late because the quilting was going well and I didn’t want to stop. When I finally headed for bed, there were no dogs in the living room…instead they had put themselves to bed…the same bed…
Awwww. Sweet puppy. Zonked old lady.
*K. Flay, Get It Right
Kathy Nida 