We Have Baby Quail!
Friday when I got home from work, I found a family of quail in our front yard, and as I was trying in my COMPLETELY unstealthy way to not frighten them, I frightened them into the bushes. Wildlife photographers everywhere remain completely unthreatened by my prowess. I spent a fair bit of Friday afternoon out watching to see if they'd decide to come back out--doing some weeding as a cover, just in case my neighbors would worry about shrub-watching as a new hobby or something--but I haven't seen them again. But they were adorable. Yesterday was surprisingly chilly, so aside from some yardwork and a few chores, Venus and I worked on the quilt: Thanks to a thread-cutting button, I'm sewing rows of stitching on the larger dragonfly print blocks in long rows, and I'm just over half done on the second row of blocks--there are a total of 8. So it's a long process, but it's a good after-work project as it's just the same thing over and over. Slow is ...