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Clix Pix said:
The sparrows seem to have huge appetites for their tiny size! I can't believe how much they eat!
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Barn swallows too... they only weigh about half to three quarters of an ounce apiece, but they pile into a bug hatch like there's no tomorrow, so there literally isn't a tomorrow for most of those unfortunate bugs.

The industrious barn swalows here have cleaned up a huge bug hatch from Friday and left for their trip to the Caribbean right on schedule. There was a nice slide from two rainy days through a little heat wave and then a half-foggy morning, perfect to deliver that bug hatch as a gift to fuel the start of their trip. I miss their lively chatter already, but that hole in the mosaic of birdsong around here is just part of the change of seasons, and into the gap will soon enough come the calls of the chickadees... and blue jays shooing the season's offspring away from what the parents will again regard as their own winter feeding grounds. Funny how they're so quiet when their nestlings are vulnerable; I am never sure exactly where their nests are. But then they are raucously, emphatically territorial again after the babies are fledged out and by time late August rolls arond.
 
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^ Awww. That is so great you can observe that.

The Jays have become very talkative again over the last month. I do notice they loathe the neighbors and their dogs as much as me 😋 (They go quiet when the dogs or neighbors get very loud in the morning and during the day). Wish I knew where their nests were to leave them peanuts and things.

I hear other birds too, but aren’t sure what birds they are. Very pretty birdsongs.
 
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Seriously? Really? What the ?
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A rare fire tornado is spotted near a blaze in California

2020 has reached into its bag of tricks again and tossed out another surprise -- this time in the form of a swirling fire. Or as meteorologists call it, a firenado -- short for fire tornado.
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Clix Pix said:
Thanks! Yes, some nights I've indeed brought the trays in just as a precaution.....tonight being one of those times. The sparrows seem to have huge appetites for their tiny size! I can't believe how much they eat!
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I fill the nut feeders most weekends. We have three of them. Mrs AFB fills the globe (x3) feeders and the biscuit tray daily.
 
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Onto all quilters' calendars now pops the advance warning that winter holidays are coming..

So once again time to haul out boxes of seasonal fabrics including novelty prints for consideration: which are better suited for use as wrapping "paper" and which could actually end up in a wall hanging or a table runner, or maybe just take a hike into the dread "whatever was I thinking?!" box of impulsive acquisitions.

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These critters might end up with the little panes cut apart and arranged vertically in a narrow wall hanging, something for that awkward wall-space between a window and a door in a kitchen or utility room.
 
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Went back to my ”old” gym and paid for a 12 month membership, as I usually do. Planet Fitness still isn’t open and my “old” gym, before PF, is open with limitations.

I’ve packed on too much weight again over the course of the year and need to get back into a routine.

I went for 30 minutes of cardio and some light weightlifting, nothing too heavy or crazy. I’m out of shape and not as young and agile as I used to be, so I need to ease back into a routine slowly.
 
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Airdrop is awesome and so seamless, I wish it had more uses. I think like 90% of Apple users don’t know about it. It would be more awesome if the share sheet could have all your contacts to send stuff over to them.
 
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MacBH928 said:
Airdrop is awesome and so seamless, I wish it had more uses. I think like 90% of Apple users don’t know about it. It would be more awesome if the share sheet could have all your contacts to send stuff over to them.
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i always have problems with that when i try to send my wife something
 
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MacBH928 said:
Airdrop is awesome and so seamless, I wish it had more uses. I think like 90% of Apple users don’t know about it. It would be more awesome if the share sheet could have all your contacts to send stuff over to them.
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I have problems with some older gear but yeah I really love Airdrop (and Handoff) for pretty seamless work moved among my 2020 MBA and relatively current iPhone and iPad models.
 
Sat here for a few minutes after spotting "firenado" trying to figure out how you'd pronounce it in Spanish because I hadn't scrolled far enough to have seen the context in which the word was applied to.
 
Disappointed in one of my Skagen watch bands. I have one their watches where you can only get a replacement from the company, where any off-the-shelf band won't fit.

I've had this watch for many years and the original band lasted a very long time. Eventually it wore out and broke. That was in February of 2019 when I ordered a replacement band. Well that replacement band barely lasted a year and a half when it broke yesterday.

To look at it, it still looks like it came out of the box, but on the backside next to the bar is where it cracked right across. Cheap leather I guess. It was only $43 to get a new band, but I expected it to last much longer than it has.

I don't even wear it everyday either. Typically, I wear watches Monday through Friday and I rotate through about 5 different ones during the week so that I usually don't wear the same one more than once or twice a week.
 
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SandboxGeneral said:
I don't even wear it everyday either. Typically, I wear watches Monday through Friday and I rotate through about 5 different ones during the week so that I usually don't wear the same one more than once or twice a week.
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I'd be very interested in seeing your collection if you don't mind sharing some photos!
 
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Disappointed in one of my Skagen watch bands. I have one their watches where you can only get a replacement from the company, where any off-the-shelf band won't fit.

I've had this watch for many years and the original band lasted a very long time. Eventually it wore out and broke. That was in February of 2019 when I ordered a replacement band. Well that replacement band barely lasted a year and a half when it broke yesterday.

To look at it, it still looks like it came out of the box, but on the backside next to the bar is where it cracked right across. Cheap leather I guess. It was only $43 to get a new band, but I expected it to last much longer than it has.

I don't even wear it everyday either. Typically, I wear watches Monday through Friday and I rotate through about 5 different ones during the week so that I usually don't wear the same one more than once or twice a week.
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That is very disappointing; I used to have a Skagen watch - their products were very well crafted - and gave it to my brother when I bought a Tissot, and later, an Omega.

As far as I know, the band is still sound, but I haven't seen him for months, on account of Covid.
 
LizKat said:
Onto all quilters' calendars now pops the advance warning that winter holidays are coming..

So once again time to haul out boxes of seasonal fabrics including novelty prints for consideration: which are better suited for use as wrapping "paper" and which could actually end up in a wall hanging or a table runner, or maybe just take a hike into the dread "whatever was I thinking?!" box of impulsive acquisitions.


These critters might end up with the little panes cut apart and arranged vertically in a narrow wall hanging, something for that awkward wall-space between a window and a door in a kitchen or utility room.
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That is absolutely gorgeous; sort of like a feline take on the legendary Lion and the Unicorn series of medieval tapestries in Paris.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
That is absolutely gorgeous; lost like a feline take on the legendary Lion and the Unicorn series of medieval tapestries in Paris.
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It does sort of have that suggestion with the tails of the cats, doesn't it. I'm intrigued by the ways that Asian designers use colors in novelty designs too. The thing with most novelty fabrics, even the ones with designs enclosed in panels or panes, is that a little usually goes a long way. They can be expensive, so one likes to wait for a sale... but the vendors are aware of that and often stipulate the sale price requires purchase of a whole yard of the stuff! Surely that became the genesis of the "take me home" pile at quilt guilds where members trade fabrics they've too much of ever to use.

Novelty designs presented inside little panes --on some sort of background print to allow for a seam allowance when cutting-- turn out to be pretty useful, or rather they make the fabrics seem more easily useful. Otherwise one can spend half an hour with an acrylic square moving it over the surface at different angles to "corral" just the right view of objects in the print before cutting a piece for some project, and when that view isn't aligned with the grain of the fabric, it can present challenges related to the stretchiness of on-the-bias cuts later on when sewing the piece.
 
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