I think I’m seeing three different opossums on the trail cam closest to the coop.
I had to look up the lifespan of a wild opossum: 2 years. So a three-year-old opossum would be elderly. Now I’ll be watching for another glimpse of them.
I am pleased that my new trail cams give me enough resolution to identify individuals.
I’m glad I moved the trail cam up the tree. Now I’m getting faces instead of haunches.
Thor the gray tabby really wants to be near Sophie the dilute calico cat. I’m not sure if it is adoration, or just fun for him to get in her personal space.
He sings to her too, plurts and trills. Sophie is remarkably calm about the whole situation, he only gets a bat with a paw when he gets really close.
I made a chicken pot pie and when it came to making the vent holes on the top crust, the necessary pattern seemed obvious.
This was my first chicken pot pie I’ve made, and I mostly followed the recipe from the Gluten Free Gourmet Comfort Foods book, but used her pie crust instead of the biscuit mix. Next time, I will thicken my favorite chicken soup recipe for the filling.
My youngest loves coloring books, but it is difficult for her to find uncolored pages in the bound books after a while. I took my heavy duty guillotine paper cutter and cut off the spine of the coloring book, freeing the pages so they could be sorted into colored and uncolored.
My youngest was pleasantly surprised with the fresh stack of ready-to-color sheets, and I was pleased with how fast and clean the cutter worked. Tearing sheets out of a book is often messy and frustrating. By cutting a 1/4 inch off the spine, the pages are freed from the glue easily.
Once my concept was proved, my youngest agreed to let me process the rest of the books. Any book that only had one or two colored pages I left alone, but the books that were mostly colored were cut and sorted.
I now also have a stack of colored sheets that can be displayed and scanned easily for posterity.
Critters and Craft 