Showing posts with label Carolina wren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carolina wren. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Clean air and walking while the walking's good

Today's bouquet, more susans, daisies, zinnias 

That sounds like the cast of a southern novel.

Good time to walk to the pond, after a few days of not managing because of weather.

There were frogs leaping everywhere, and the hot, then wet, weather has brought on the invasive phragmites grass, ready to choke the waterway. See it there, advancing on the water?

And all the way home I could hear this Carolina wren shouting jerkee jerkee jerkee wheeee 

There were dragonflies, mostly darners, who stay dead still, posing, right up to when I lift my phone, then outta here, so you need to take my word for them.

Today's reading is 

I must say Max Daniels' readers have presented me with a variety of reading, all good. This one's a murder mystery, clean summer fun.

It's a Sydney, Oz, based narrator writing in first person about a Boston based cast of characters with an on-site adviser who becomes a character in the novel the Boston narrator character is writing on an  Australian literary scholarship. With me so far? Hang in.

Real locations, main characters meet in the reading room of the famous library, hear a scream, later established as a murder happening, and they form a detection gang. 

So far, so interesting. Definitely recommended as a layered work with sliding effects thrown in.

In other breaking news, I'm thinking of ditching the current Tunisian sock, which is developing into a scratchy fabric, but looking for other yarn to keep on with the concept.

It has to be easy care, for the recipients, so I may steal back some yarn from the weighted warp experiment, and substitute other yarn.

The weighted warp is still going to happen. I can't let Penelope down. Or the Scandinavian women who wove the linen sails for Viking ships this way. 

Thus enabling the men to invade my ancestral land, rape and pillage and generally act like really bad visitors, but nevermind.

Happy day everyone, live now not thousands of years ago.







Sunday, June 22, 2025

Summer in the living room

The season is officially changed, the warm sofa rug now in the laundry, replaced by the white quilt.  The loveseat quilt is turned over to show the wedding ring side. 

Last evening as soon as I heard about the latest Iran lunacy, I ran to do a bit of seed planting. 

Tomatoes, if we are lucky. Complete with squirrel proofing.

Today's walk disturbed many frogs all leaping and diving on the other side of the pond, squirrels unworried, and many bird calls.



I'm hearing a Carolina wren with a variation on the usual teakettle teakettle teakettle TEA. This rugged avian is singing teaKETtle tea KETle TEEEEEE.  Maybe it's a local accent. A Joisey boid.

I came home through the street and saw these fun things. A lot of my neighbors do whimsy.


And here's a very tiny bunny. 


The gate is about three or four inches from the ground, to show you how small. He's a teacup size.

Happy day everyone, try to find something to be joyful about. Let's not let those people steal what fun we can find.