Liam's Noah's Ark is finished as a wall hanging in time for his 1st birthday tomorrow, YAHHHHH!!!! Finished photos are posted in my photo album. I still have to give it a light steaming. Quilting is not my best needlework though.
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first panel was stitched for Liam by Auntie Geri, & Cousins Laura and Sarah(DD) The second panel was stitched by me, Auntie Bobbie(and yes there is a ladybug in the roof. The bottom panel was stitched by Auntie Georgette ("Sister of the Heart" and stash building buddy), & Cousins Irene(DDil) and Ayako (other DDil)
Yes! Clever you for noticing! The cockies have been *really* active the last few days. We've had lots of intermittent rain and the soil creatures make their way up out of the ground to escape drowning. I think the cockies are making a meal of all those worms and things! They're *so* loud! If the flock's right over the house, you can't hear your own voice with their screeching and flapping. Needless to say, we always rush out to watch them in their progress. They're so beautiful, I never get sick of them.
The other day, I heard the birds outside going ballistic and rushed out just in time to see three pee-wees, a magpie and a flock of noisy miners mobbing up a *goshawk* as it flew just above the houses! I can't imagine what brought it over our way, but it was a beauty: all brown-barred on its front and flapping laboriously to get away from the unwelcoming committee. ROTFL! I was so pleased to see such an unusual and gorgeous bird, I did a bijou happy dance in the middle of the back yard - just as a group of walkers passed by the back fence and saw me capering round in a circle. Sigh. Isn't it a shame how ready people are to make snap judgements about each other? I could see the pitying looks on these folks' faces and just *knew* they thought I was having an 'episode' of some sort. Sigh again. I'm not mad! Really, I'm not!
In 1965 my father WINTER OVER in Antarctica during "Operation Deep Freeze". So this ark had Penguins which made it appealing to Dsis. For years people would give my dad penguins. At Christmas a whole room was done up with them.
**Note to self, must go rootle for the slides and pictures that he had**
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