Finished!

Today I finished up the top for the Salt Water Taffy quilt, and I am so glad to have this done. I started working on it on May, 2012. Next month, I will tie and bind it and it will be ready for coziness. Here's where I left off yesterday:

Hm. I could have sworn I left it all nice and flat on the floor. Maybe the organization elves have been here "helping".

And here's my scrappy flannel quilt when I finished with it this afternoon.

These are the fabrics I have for the back and the binding. The blue on the right is for the binding.

Smitty likes it even better now that I made it bigger for him.

The only other thing I did today was to feed the birds and set up the birdcam. The birds have been neglected the past two weeks. I didn't bother with them while Mike was in the hospital. Since he's been home, it's been raining every day. It doesn't make a lot of sense to put the camera out in the rain since the only thing I'm going to get is pictures of is blurry birds through the raindrops on the lens. Also, when it's too windy, the blowing feeder sets off the motion sensor and I get lots of pictures of the feeder going sideways, but no birds.

So here's what I captured today. These first several images are of the House Finch. We have another kind of finch around here that looks almost exactly the same...the Purple Finch...but I'm pretty sure these are all House Finches.

I like capturing them with a seed in their mouths.

Yeah, quite a few of those.

This next guy is a Red-breasted Nuthatch:

And here's a Chestnut-backed Chickadee. Our sunflower seed got a little wet, and some of it has sprouted. He's holding one of the sprouted seeds in his mouth.

And this last one is a Dark-Eyed Junco.

I'm identifying the birds from a laminated poster of "Backyard Birds of the Pacific Northwest" that I got from the Backyard Bird Shop. If I've misidentified any of them, please let me know.

So that's it from me today. Tomorrow I'm going to muster all of my self-discipline and get myself to the pool for a workout. It won't be much of a workout since I'm out of shape, but it'll be a start at least. I had as my goal to force myself to work out regularly for the next 30 days, thinking that 30 days makes a habit, don't you know. Then, one of you informed me that you had learned that, actually, it takes somewhere in the neighborhood of 66 days to form a habit. Yikes. (Thanks, Kate!) So.......now I'm thinking I might have to force myself to do 30 days twice. We'll see how self-disciplined I am, won't we now? (Not. I can tell you that right now.)

Also, after said workout (cough), I'm going to start on the next door for my Doors of Ireland quilt.

There's the door. I have the fabrics picked out. I'm still considering how to do the name of the restaurant since the lettering is too small to applique it. I might trace it onto the fabric and embroider it before fusing it to the block. Haven't really decided yet.

I hope you had a good weekend and that you have a lovely week ahead of you.