Before opening my eyes in the softness of the pre-dawn dark this morning, I knew it would be another day of gloomy, somber gray skies and blustery winds. The wind, although not howling or storm-worthy, had been steadily moaning through the leafless branches outside my bedroom window all night – as it has for muchContinue reading “November Comes Blowing”
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Denizens of the Deck
I don’t know exactly why, but I tend to think of the cheeky little red-breasted Nuthatch as the tiniest of the woodpecker clan. I know they aren’t any such thing, but the way they cling, often upside down, to the suet bar on my deck … peck, peck, pecking away with their sharp little beaks,Continue reading “Denizens of the Deck”
A Never Ending Pattern
I’ll begin by saying I was awful at math as a child and avoid it like the plague to this day. Thank God for calculators. That being said; I have become fascinated by the idea of creating fractal patterns in yarn. A fractal, in the math and science world, is a never-ending pattern or aContinue reading “A Never Ending Pattern”
Bobbin Clearing
It was just a quiet Saturday afternoon. The sky was a pale, bruised gray threatening but not quite producing rain. Saturday was Rhonda’s weekly Barn Hunt practice, where she had enthusiastically cornered and pounced upon four craftily hidden, furry rodents (all safely ensconced in their protective tubes). Much romping, climbing and tunneling was done byContinue reading “Bobbin Clearing”
De & the Dachsies - Our Rambles 