Making hay

[altivo]

Well, that's what it amounts to. We are at last cutting down the tall grass in the pasture. Unfortunately we really have no way to save it and use it for hay, but it would have been decent hay. And there's a lot of it. We've had two sunny days with dry breezes. Grass cut yesterday and left lying on the ground was already quite dry today.

Tess was shocked when I took her out there. She kept staring around as if to say "This can't be my pasture." It did seem strange, but she got used to it pretty fast. Except that she kept snuffling all over and sampling the dry cut grass with some distaste. The lush green stuff she has been nibbling at for two weeks is all yellowing and dry now. There is supposed to be rain over the weekend, which will revive it pretty quickly I think.

Mama barn swallow is still sitting on her eggs. The robins in the shrubbery by the drive have already hatched theirs and abandoned the nest, it seems. Blackberry blossoms are open now.

And, as promised, here are a couple of plushies inspecting my challenge piece, a woven table runner entitled "Purple Onions Make Me Cry."

Back side of woven piece can be viewed here.

Comments

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

Those DO look the insides of red onions!

Love the plush. Bear and horse. :D

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Indeed, they do... very nicely done. ^^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Fortunately they don't smell like onions.

Onions are very nice in their place, but I'm not sure that's the middle of the tea table.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Probably not, no. To each their own, of course, but I would prefer them elsewhere, myself. :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

"Mini-Webkins" I think they are called. Each comes with a serial number that is supposed to let you play them as characters in some sort of online game. Unfortunately, the game is so bandwidth intensive and slow that I couldn't even get it to work from my desktop at the library where I have T1 access. I think it's all written in Flash. Yuck.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough I am trying to get a flash plugin working right now. :D

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I added a close-up of the plushies to Flickr this morning:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/altivo/3597933876/

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

They really do! Thanks for posting. And it's not too offensively purple at all.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It was an interesting exercise and the results are certainly nice enough. I should have shot those photos in sunlight though. They aren't doing justice to the purple, which is looking almost brown here.

Onions...

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

I have an allergic reaction to onions that makes me "cry" (well, my eyes water anyhow)... but I really have to get close to a big one while it's being cut or shredded to have that effect.