Before Paige left we managed to do something I was kind of dying to do for awhile. We jogged to Jester King! It’s a lot closer by foot than by car because you can walk through a narrow opening in a stone wall at the end of our neighborhood which leads you to a fairly straight road to the brewery. By car you have to go much further. So anyway, it was about a 3 mile jog and Rob met us there with the dogs!
It’s winter here so until recently only Isis was laying eggs but now Sisi is back on board. Can’t recall the last time Zsa Zsa laid an egg but hopefully one of these days she’ll deign to do so. Despite occasional frosts, we still see plenty of butterflies which kind of amazes me.
Variegated Fritillary
Recently we headed back to Riverside Farms and hung out with Pat and Bob, our former neighbors, and listened to some live music outside. Apparently there were a few mosquitos but I didn’t notice them. I thought it was cool that you could hear the coyotes behind us as the sky darkened and we had the lit-up stage in front of us. The street is much the same, except for a large, cleared empty lot at the front of the road which will have condos on it eventually. There are other things threatening the road too, and we all wonder how long this little microverse will survive. We noticed someone has goats now and there’s also a new pair of donkeys!
Other than that, not a lot has changed since last post except that Rob setup our new Bird Buddy. At first, we were worried it wasn’t working as it didn’t snap a photo if you waved your hand in front of it. But it turns out it only snaps if it determines the thing is likely a bird…so Rob used one of his Dad’s hand-carved birds to test it…and sure enough, SNAP! Not only that, it correctly identified it LOL.
The feeder has taken pics of several species so far including Cardinal, Tufted Titmouse, Chickadee, Eastern Bluebird, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Mockingbird, and more. It also takes videos so it’s fun to clip those and fool with them :)
Since this was taken, we’ve spun around the feeder so trees are in the background rather than a house :)
Doing same junk with gelli prints, embroidery. For my last one, I used the old, dried paint from the brayers and glued them on a gelli print and added embroidery.
Sometimes I fool around with doll images and human faces and stuff, which is just a thing I like. I was talking to Rob and recalled the phrase “uncanny valley” which is definitely a place I like to hang out.
Recently I noticed empty shelves at the grocery for the cold medicine. A lot of people sick right now. And our Master Naturalist class begins tomorrow night so likely we’ll be in masks…hopefully we won’t be the only ones to do so! We aren’t sure but we think there are 40 of us in the class.
Uh oh
A few more pics below.
