More bird photos and the weekend list

I forgot to include this photo that Chris took during the snow yesterday. This is a Carolina Wren. We love these birds except early in the morning because they sing very loud for such a tiny bird! But they sing a very happy song.

A couple of years ago we had a big problem with raccoons stealing our suet feeders. I think I read an article in Birds and Blooms about someone spreading peanut butter on a tree trunk. That was brilliant! The birds love chunky peanut butter. We get wrens, nuthatches, woodpeckers, cardinals and other birds visiting the peanut butter feeder every day. That magazine, by the way, has some of the very best nature photography I've ever seen. I save lots of the photos for inspiration.

Work was totally manic today.  I work at home two days a week and today was a home work day. I had both phones ringing all day long! Chris' day was much more successful - he made new cedar Bluebird nesting boxes. One of these is for Mom and we place 3 in our yard. We've been pretty successful at getting Eastern Bluebirds to nest in our boxes so Chris tries to make their accommodations nice.

So, here we are heading into a weekend and that means a list!

• Finish the sample baptist fan quilt. I finished the quilting last night and want to go ahead and get the binding done and get it out of the sewing room.
• Make a batch of soap (because I didn't get it done last weekend).
• Load one of Great-Grandma's quilt tops for the Baptist Fan treatment
• Work on my MQResource Triptych projects. These are due Jan 31 and I want to get them done now that I have my sewing machine back from the shop.

I hope you get to do everything you want this weekend.

Comments

[Cindy]

Did I miss birdwathcing on the weekend list? Also, thanks again for the pic. It is all pretty tacked up on my wall!

[Sequana]

"are due Jan. 3"

Of what year?....*S*

[Sue B]

all I'm hoping to do this weekend is stay warm!

[jenclair]

I loved looking at all your bird photos. There is always something special about birds with a background of snow...all that life in the midst of winter. Especially the cardinals (in your previous posts)which brighten any landscape, but are brilliant when all else is stark.

[Kate]

I can't believe it's the weekend again and here you are with your list - seems like just yesterday you were doing the last one...