The first picture is Apollo at about 7 weeks old, so cute. The second picture is right after his shearing this last Monday, he’s 8 months old, amazing how fast they grow. I wish I had a picture just before his shearing, he was sooo much fluff!!! What a difference after the shearing! Once all their fluffy fiber is gone you can see how they look under all that fiber and how long their necks are, look at those fluffy ears!!! He’s a sweetie though, a defluffed sweetie but a sweetie nevertheless. He also is a medium fawn color now instead of the light fawn his beginning fiber was. So many bags of fiber to skirt from shearing day!
Every year I try to get the first robins of the year as they return in the spring. However the last several years I haven’t been able to get the first ones, I see them when I am driving and can’t stop to get a picture, it’s like they know I want a picture! But my son-in-law grabbed this picture last Saturday at the farm because I was helping someone and my camera wasn’t being nice to me. My son-in-law is such a great guy! 🙂 I am seeing a lot of lone males looking for a mate that they aren’t finding in the last couple of years, where are all the females, or did these males just arrive much later than normal and the females were all taken?
Also, while I was at the at the farm, the peacock decided to show off a bit. Isn’t he pretty :). He’s fully mature this year and so next year the peahen should start laying eggs. This year she is still ignoring him, lol. It’s amazing how well they fly even with very long feathers. My son had to pen them up in the aviary he built for them because he has spurs and trys to defend the hen from anything, even us! I tell people he has an attitude! I didn’t realize they lived so long, 15 to 25 years in the wild and up to 50 years in captivity!
The project is the Brick Work Baby Blanket , it’s a free Ravelry download. Have a new little one due from a friend at Church. It’s too warm for a sweater and sweaters really only fit for a few months so I chose a blanket again, takes longer but I was more in the mood to knit a blanket than a sweater. I chose yellow in the Crafter’s Secret Big Idea 16 ozs 810 Yards. It’s acrylic for easier washing. It should hopefully be plenty, it calls for 700 yards but I’m using the needle it calls for US size 8, 29″ cable, and I would normally, because of the gauge I get with my style of knitting (combined continental) I knit a little loose and generally go down 1 size needle, hope I’m not going to be playing yarn chicken. If I think I am I’ll end it early :P. I’m still on the top border (yeah they are starting on the top border instead of the bottom – tho I can’t think with this pattern it will make any difference which is top and which is bottom) and again this one starts row one on the wrong side of the work, so it won’t confuse me this time!!
I did buy another shirt, I just love these funny shirts (this was a picture on Etsy). Honestly I could cross off the ignore part and it would still work :P. One more shirt and an another pair of jeans and I should be good to go with clothes for a couple of years. The shirt and jeans will be next month’s purchase, clothes are expensive!!
This tree does actually have leaves and flowers when it’s not winter :P. Pretty pink flowers. I wish my neighbor would quit feeding the deer with the corn she puts under the tree. We have deer running all over the place in town, makes it not safe to drive at night!! Time to cull the excess deer around here, it makes it safer for the people driving at night and stops diseases in the deer like the wasting disease for one.
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