I haven’t checked the trail cam in a couple months, and when I did there were only 39 pictures. Several of those 39, though, were of a Doe and her fawn.
I wasn’t sure at first if the smaller one was a fawn, or if the picture had some perspective magic happening, since there are not visible spots on the fawn. A quick internet image search brings up other night vision photos of fawns where the spots don’t show up. Interesting.
My chorus is using kazoos as a training device to learn to increase resonance. To keep the kazoo close, I made a lanyard with sliding knots and a Lucet cord.
It took me a couple hours to braid and knot the cord, and it is rather fiddly to work. When I stepped away, my brain came up with a much simpler way. Here is a video on how to do a simple, removable wrap on a kazoo using a string necklace (large loop of string).
Sometimes it is good to take a step back, or go do something else for a while, or go for a walk, to let ideas coalesce.
Today we are going back to December of 2004 and a leather book weight I made and decorated with painted bees. It seemed appropriate to share this in nod to my bee visitor this week.
The ends of the book weight are filled with small bags of sand to give it enough heft to hold a book open. The back side is suede to be gentle on the pages and have a bit of grip. I’m still quite pleased with the stitches around the outside, I love a good decorative braid stitch. I do have to admit that I have to look up how to make the braid every time.
Iris that my Dad replanted at the back of our meadow three years ago or so have bloomed! The rest of the meadow is filled with tall grass, but we are only mowing the edges in hopes that our Indian blanket and basket flowers come up again.
After replacing his collar four times, I found out how Thor the cat was breaking the buckle: with his teeth. Rather than risk a broken tooth, I am letting him go collarless. He is chipped, so if he freaks and escapes, there is that. He looked so handsome with his black collar, sigh.
I’m sure the collar was interfering in his regular baths. He is a very fastidious cat.
Critters and Craft 