Coyote Watch

 Boy do I love watching these critters, and it's even better if I'm able to catch them on camera.  It was a beautiful warm day, much more like an Arizona winter.  It began with some hard work when Dan said he was coming over to move all those oleander and palm tree branches out to the roadside.  

Apparently the Homeowners Association (very small with a negligible cost) is hiring a big Waste Management Truck to come around and pick up anything and everything we want to get rid of.  For FREE!  It wasn't all that bad since we only had to load the backhoe which he then drove to the road.

Once done, that gave me time to work on these images.  I think this is Big Momma, but I'm not sure.  the markings on her back are the giveaway, although a couple of her kids have the same markings.

I snapped away as fast as I could, this one being a little blurry since it was shot through the window.  Opening the slider usually makes them take off.

She drank for quite some time, giving me the evil eye now and then to be sure I wasn't moving.

The family was out and about last night.  They woke me up with all their howling and greetings at about 2:00 and they are back again this morning at 5:00.  Cooper can hear them and is barking in return.  Makes you wonder what they are saying!!

With visions of coyotes in my head, I took off to the fabric store for what else, more fabric.  Sometimes it doesn't pay to do anything when you are tired.  I cut the fabric entirely the wrong way, ending up with 14 pieces instead of seven.  I was able to get 12 yards of black and white at close to half price.  I'll use it up in no time.

Being tired at the end of the day lead to the little accident with a knife while cutting up the meat for my stir fry.  I'm pretty bad about using up leftover veggies, so figured I'd give this a try.  I learned two things.  One, a thumb tends to bleed a LOT.  It's okay, that chunk will grow back eventually.

Two, there's nothing that hurts more than a cut thumb when you need it to sew the binding on a quilt.  Those thumbs that hold things together work really well until you are missing part of it.  As you can tell I have LOTS of binding to do.

Dessert made me feel a little better ... no-bake lime cheesecake I made a couple of days ago.  I ran out of little pie shells so I used mason jars.

The best part of the day was actually putting on a pair of shorts before eating the pie!!!  It's finally warming up in southern Arizona!!