Baby Robins, Day 6

Day 6
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An update a day late, as 65 yards of linen arrived yesterday afternoon, and I did not turn my computer on after work. :) Linen was delivered post haste to Creativity Night, there was much creativity happening, so I didn't really get anything done. We sure can cram a heck of a lot of people into Alex & Ninian's home, though! Wow... Much Rocking happened later, after everyone left. Was good. I discovered I have the same vocal range as Blondie (Call Me), which was pretty cool... stayed up a bit too late, though... going to be an interesting day at work.

Baby birdies! Hungry and awake for most of yesterday, 6 (and 5) days old. I saw mom robin flying back and forth quite a bit with beakfuls of all manner of worms... At least two of the babies have open eyes; I can't tell them apart, and never saw all three with eyeballs visible at the same time, so I'm not sure if they're all at the same state... Feathers are growing as well, little speckled pinfeathers. Our babies are getting more and more robin-like every day.

Day 7 (get that camera out of my face, willya??)

One Week
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Little birdies are one week old today! The first two cracked their way out of their little blue eggs last Thursday, and the change is just amazing... Little speckled feathers, big wide beaks, and little black beady eyes. Their eyes are still more often closed than open, but every now and then they decide to take a look at this big world they're in now... In another week, they'll all be grown and mom will have kicked them out of the nest. Pretty amazing.

In other news, I'm getting the proper jaw-drop reaction from folks on a nearly-finished scroll... danged proud of this one, I am. Eeee scroll! After GNEW, there will be photos. Don't want to risk the wrong people finding out ahead of time... ;) I also have much much fabric to wash and chop into bits and make the bits into garb before Pennsic. This will be fun... aieeees!

Mom and brother are coming up tomorrow afternoon, and then at least mom and I are headed to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens on Saturday with E and her mom. Should be fun, even if it does rain on us a little bit (which it will... it's been raining all week, why should it stop now?).