Okay, I'm being overly negative. Though in fairness to ME, I spent the last half of March sick and laid out on my back, missing far too much work with doctor's orders. I'm telling you, it wasn't pretty. I was feeling very sorry for myself and it was rather pathetic. Coughing, sinus ooze, pink eye ('twas a lovely virus, let me tell you).
Anyhoo.
My brother turned 30 on April 1st. My favourite April Fool. Above is a photo taken in our front yard. That is my brother's first golf club. I'm holding a horse named Penelope. She had straw for hair, and an old fashioned dress. My bangs were the worst!
My brother (leopard, right) was the cutest kid. And check out the homemade costumes! A strawberry and a leopard! I hope to have such adorable homemade costumes for my own children some day.
There's a white speck at the top of the bottom portion of open water (if that makes sense) that is actually a male common goldeneye (a duck). Trevor and I went to Oak Hammock Marsh on Sunday to see what we could see. (They have an "interpretive centre" inside and many many acres of marshland outside.) It was still a bit early - though I was surprised by how much ice was still on the ponds. We only saw mallards, geese and these common goldeneye. They were doing the neatest mating dances though where they'd pop their heads backward on to their backs. Never seen it before.
It's me...
I love this last photo of Trevor with the tall marsh grass. (Taller than him! Impressive!)
Red-winged Blackbirds congregating in the brush. I saw a flock of well over 100 today on my way to my volleyball game. They're everywhere.
"When the bird and the book disagree,...
...always believe the bird." Birdwatcher's Proverb
Here's a list of what others have seen on their hikes around the marshland. We also saw the ground squirrels and a few killdeer
That's it. The highlight of my March and it wasn't even in March.
I'm almost done my cat bed. I'll be sure to take before and after photos for the felting, as it is proving to be RATHER large right now. I'm excited about this one.
And, I've got MANY friends expecting babies, so I think I should consider whether I'm going to gift these babies with crocheted items (i.e. blankets) - CAN I accomplish such a feat? Time will tell.
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I love birds too and I managed to get a pretty good shot of a beautiful male house finch the other day that I think you'd like.
Who else is expecting babies? Anyone I know?
Weeeell, 3/5 of my bridesmaids are (Heather, Larissa, Becky). Trev's cousin and his wife are expecting (Karl Warkentin, doubt you know him, but you never know), my friend Leeanne is expecting, she's the Pet Vet in Steinbach, so maybe you know her b/c of your Steinbach pets. Certainly not me. You'll be one of the first to know if I am.
WV: portunt
"Being a parent is a very 'portunt job."
What's your trick in posting many pictures in a blog post? I always tend to get so frustrated with them moving my text everywhere, and creating an elaborate amount of space returns.
I dunno. To tell you the truth, this one felt rather sloppy to me (not a lot of fixing of spaces between text and pictures).
I do two hard returns after finishing a paragraph, insert my picture (making sure it's centred and size large, as that's the look I like in my blog/that's what works for me and my layout), do two hard returns afterward, and continue on with text. (Or just one hard return if I want a photo immediately beneath it.) Sometimes it leaves a crazy amount of space between text and photo, for some reason, but then I just go back and edit and add or remove returns until it looks the way I want on my final page.
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