WIP, Reading and a Window Visitor

Look at all that! Looks like I've had a case of cast-on-itis. There sure is good choice to pick from for whatever knitting whimsy strikes.

I'm about 11% (what can I say...it is how Kindle tells you where you are) into this book. It's good. And it is the winter that we aren't getting this year. Shh, don't tell anyone but I kinda am missing our regular type winter.

And while I was taking pictures by the best light source this time of year (patio door), look who showed up.

The bold cheeky little critter. I got a couple mug shots of him.

Front view.

Side view.

And when the kitties discovered him he ran so fast I didn't even get the thought put together to take a picture much less press the shutter.

But the kitties knew what was up. Up a tree!

I've got nuthin' but some randomnesses...

This is the 3rd time that I've started this book. If I can't make it through this time it'll probably be 3 strikes and you're out. It's just so wordy. A whole page to describe a woman's face. It could have been done in 1 sentence.... Taken separately her features were unremarkable or even unbecoming, but all together they made her a beauty. There. That wouldn't have been so awful for the author, would it?? But then I'm a bit of a believer in "Less is More"...

Onward!
The Sea of Dreams baby blanket is coming along. It's the next on my "finish this project NOW" hitlist. It is really quite easy going except for a few rows in each repeat that make no sense to me and so I'm constantly checking the chart to make sure I'm on the right track. Uff.

The fall flowers are doing their best to show off.

Russian Sage.

Joe Pye Weed and Veronica.

We've got apples! The squirrels are having their way with them though and so I'm thinking that I need to get ahold of 1st DDIL and we make a raid on the tree and get them picked. Ready or not!

There are plenty of apples but the bulk of them are at the top of the tree. /sigh

The bugbane has yet to bloom but the hostas and columbine are finished.

I love my ruffly daylily that always looks a little deformed.

And the rose is still going strong. If I get out and clip off the old buds I'll have blooms for a long time yet...

Well, that's it folks. My life is dull these days. Harvest is going on though. Maybe I need to get out to the field today and get a few combining pictures...

Book Club!

So our little community has started a Book Club and I am thrilled to say I am a member! Granted we are reading books that I've already read but that isn't the whole thing...it's the getting out of the house and seeing different people. And I liked these books so much it's fun to reread them.

It is held in our local restaurant at suppertime, so we push a bunch of tables together and have a meal first and then discuss the latest book. So far we have read "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", "Water for Elephants" and now we are reading "Saving Ceecee Honeycutt". I and the young gal that used to babysit our boys pushed for this book. I'm crossing my fingers that most everyone will like it.

I wanted to tell everyone about the website www.goodreads.com last time we met but I didn't get a chance. It is a social book readers site where you can list all the books you've read, rate them and when you read them etc and also you can have friends and you can see what your friends thought of different books.

My 2nd DDIL is also an avid reader and she told me about goodreads. It's really quite helpful also...it helps me remember just what books I actually have read! ;) I guess I just told you about it....maybe next month I'll get a chance to tell everyone at the book club about it. Until then I'm happily reading and sipping ice tea!