Marching orders

 of a different kind.

Ollie was ticked because I wouldn't open the door to fill his dish until they were gone.  

The increasing cost of the corn for the deer and this flock is mounting!  And they stick around until it's gone, sometimes waiting for more to be thrown.

The pipe on the bird feeder pole is heating duct that snaps to close, works better than plastic pipe which squirrels can sometimes claw to climb.  A few have made it up, but this isn't the largest size, next time, bigger.  When filling the feeder we lift the pipe sleeve to see if any birds or critters fell inside. 

 

Cardio tomorrow, ortho offered the Synvisc injections for the knee, but that cost is hundreds more than others we know have paid last year.  Complicated and confusing, too much to explain.  Still debating.

The large house is fully stitched, fill in continues for the lawn area.  Between these rows I will work on surrounding motifs to test the woozy wonk.  I think I'll do fine.  Current debate is whether to replace house's stitched section of the far left which was done a while back.  I used the two direction method I love which creates a really solid look.  So why didn't I use it when pulling Julia out later, or finish that side first?  I would have noticed but instead, I worked on the right and the left was completed last.  Since returning to her, stitching was done in horizontal rows, not bidirectional.  The wonk got me.

And I realized, I do have WIPs.  Two large samplers have been set aside, another small one that I lost love for is in the bag.  Wow.  I'm growing up.

Hope your week ends well.

Stay safe folks.

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