It's been dry in September. We shall see what October brings. I watered the garden yesterday. 
My first wood duck nesting box, wrecked by a bear, and three cubs, needs repair. This is my non-mental note to remind me.
Our colourful mushrooms are done, the fungus is still going.
After my break, I got back to work stacking.
I feel so badly for our large white pine trees. Shorn, as they were in 2023 storms. I've been stacking the wood.
During and after. The rest of it is too big for our wood stove. I may just fire it down the hill! I could get them back, but I'd just have to stack it!
👀 Now, those of you with eye floaters know whereof I speak. I am still not used to them.
Not only that, but we've these durned no-see-ums. They aren't biting, and for that I am grateful (some of the 5000 of this species do), but they hover in a cloud just to fool my eyeballs. When I sat down for a break in my orange shirt, they all landed on me! Then, I looked at the hops vine, and there they were.
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There was a ceremony on TV for Orange Shirt Day (←excellent information from the Canadian Encyclopedia). I taped and watched it. This is a day to honour the 4100 named missing Indigenous children at residential schools and missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW). It was a moving two-hour event. White people must bear witness, and listen to their stories if they are able.
This is another shameful saga of white colonial history. Children sent to horrid institutional schools, torn from their families. It is well represented by this famous painting.
The Scream
— Canadian Paintings (@CanadaPaintings) September 30, 2023
Kent Monkman ~ Cree
2017 pic.twitter.com/KP1Y4h3fXJ
Felting
This is a new craft for me. I watched several YouTube videos and I am getting the hang of it.
I am working on Christmas presents! SSsshhhhh – don't tell anyone in Vancouver! I have been revising it. I originally ordered a kit from Topsy Farms, one for each girl, but they only had the one style. That first one worked out well enough. 
This is Bernie, one of the kids' cats in Vancouver. Bernie lives near a busy street and he is a runner. He is often leashed. I was trying to figure out my second piece, having redesigned it myself. 😸
I decided to improvise. My bird didn't work well. I pulled it out, felting is very forgiving, and created a dragonfly.
I tried to order more of the felting base, but even Topsy Farms has trouble finding it. I ordered kits from Amazon. More on that later!
