Babble Post

The Bag Lady is really scraping the bottom of the barrel for something to post about. There is a lot going on in her life, but none of it very blog-worthy. She's got half a dozen projects on the go, as usual, but none of them are at a stage where she can blog about them (unless, of course, y'all want to see pictures of furniture with the paint half scraped off, or scraps of fabric that will eventually become something functional....)

She has a Pileated Woodpecker hanging around her place, and has been trying in vain to photograph him to show you, but she doesn't have the right kind of camera skills. She watched him the other day for quite awhile, and was quite amused at his antics. He was probably just doing what he needed to do to get at the bugs in the dead tree stump that he was attacking, but it looked really comical to watch him pecking away, then stick his head inside the hole and turn it right around, searching for bugs. She did film some of it, but had the camera on the wrong setting, and there was a lot of foliage in the way. When she did finally get the camera set properly, he almost immediately jumped down onto the ground out of sight. Silly bird.

The Bag Lady did spend a portion of her day yesterday picking dandelions, then preparing them for the transition from annoying weed to wine. She took some pictures (which are still trapped in her camera) and will probably take a few more of the next step, which takes place in a couple of days. It's a long process - you soak the flowers for a couple of days, then boil them with sugar and a few other ingredients, strain them; add the yeast (or add the yeast and then strain them - guess she needs to look at the recipe again!) and let the strained liquid sit.... it takes about 6 months after you bottle it for it to be anywhere close to ready - they recommend that you let it sit in the bottles for a year. We'll be damned thirsty by then, eh? (Had to throw a little Canadianism in there)

Now she needs to get rid of the rest of the gazillion or so dandelions left in her yard. Or, at the very least, decapitate them with the lawn mower! And, one of these days really soon, she needs to go to a nursery and find some bedding plants - tomatoes, peppers and a few flowers for the pots on her deck.

So much to do, so little... ambition ....err.... time.