Hodgepodge Coming to a Close

Design - "Old Friends"

Designer - The Goode Huswife

Fabric - 30 count R & R Light Espresso

Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - August 2012

Completed - 20 August 2012

I must say that was one BIG rug to cross stitch!  The cats approve of the finish and I'm happy to have stitched another of the Goode Huswife's cat series.  With one more day life of my "Dealer's Choice - Hodgepodge" I'm in a dither.  Do I start another random project, or kit up my first September project?  What to do?  

I spent Tuesday afternoon on the back patio at my aunt's home.

She had Nuthatches coming to her feeders.  I like how they are able to walk down fir trees. 

She also had a couple of Douglas' Squirrels (Tamiasciurus douglasii) pigging out at her bird feeders.  Douglas' Squirrels have a wide-ranging diet. In spring, they eat the developing shoots and pollen cones of Douglas-fir. Later in the year they eat green vegetation, fruits, insects, fungi, berries, and seeds of both conifers and deciduous trees, such as big leaf maple.

Back at home I watched a group of swallows 'mob' this hawk until they drove him away.  Kind of a David and Goliath story! 

We've also seen a couple of Grouse. This female appears to be nesting right along the edge of our driveway in a blackberry thicket.