Rocking Your World 2021: Week 44

Here we are looking back over the week for those golden moments that made us smile. I can't believe it is the end of the week already. It has mostly been a stay at home week. We have had a fair amount of rain which has done the ground a lot of good. And we are lucky here in the village. The surrounding Cabrera mountains seem to sheild us from the worst of the elements, so once again we had no problems with flooding etc that was seen in many areas around us.

After the sound of heavy rain plus thunder and lightening woke us last Friday night, I took my camera outside on Saturday morning to catch some photos of raindrops on the plants.You might think that is a bit odd, but rain is rather more of a novelty here than it is in UK, and it is usually followed by sunshine that makes the raindrops glisten. So here is what  I took.

I do like to see rain drops on roses and right now our roses are giving us another flurry of lovely flowers.

When I was shopping in Lidls I saw some rather sad and bruised Winter pansies. They were very cheap so I bought four and have now planted them in a pot on our front step. Within a couple of days, they had all bucked up and now have beautiful flowers on them.

I had to smile at Tango when I caught him napping in the sun. I am keeping a close eye on this cactus which is almost as tall as I am. The last one keeled over when it got this tall, but I keep hoping it will produce a flower on the top before this one falls. When I went out there Tango was curled up with his head right in the centre of the cactus and I thought it was a very uncomfortable place to chose to rest. Needless to say, by the time I returned with my camera he has moved his head but at least he was still sitting there.

While standing by the front gate, I notoced these little birds lined up along the cables. They are almost certainly spotless starlings which are flocking back here for the colder months. They are so noisy when they all chatter each morning and evening, with all the sparrows joining in to give them some competition.  But these ones quite intrigued me, because after a few minutes they dropped one by one, straight down to the ground, and soon they were all gone. I guess there was some food below them but I couldn't see from where I was.

Here is another flock of them that I saw just as the sun was going down. I was trying to catch a sunset that never really happened, when they all flew across in front of me, no doubt going back to their trees to roost for the night.

I am pleased to say I am making some progress, albeit slowly, with my big crochet project. I am still not showing it, but I think I am about a quarter of the way through. I still have to undo rows sometimes to correct a mistake, but mostly I am on the right track now. It is just complicated and needs a lot of focus and concentration.

That obviously doesn't make it very easy to work on if I am watching TV, and as the evenings are drawing in we do find ourselves in the sitting room in front of the TV most evenings now, so I needed a much simpler project to work on then. So I have started to make lots of little squares. Each one has three rounds of one colour in different shades. They are all surrounded by a black row which makes the colours pop, and brings them all together. It is a great way to use up all my little balls of left-over yarn from previous projects, and I did have a big bag of them. I soon got tired of hunting through it for my colours so one night I sorted them all into different bags, one for esch colour set, and now I can quickly chose three that tone, and I can get out just one bag for the evening and make all red ones, or all green ones etc! I need almost 300 squares for my blanket, so that's around 50 from each bag! I happened to have quite a lot of black bought for another project that I decided against doing, a few years ago, so that has given me a good start.

Here are just a few of the squares I have made so far.

A happy little post came in from my Granddaughter yesterday to say her son Alfie(age 6),  played football for the West Brom under seven's team again, and scored a hat trick against Manchester United. Not too many folk can say they have done that!

Although most days have broken out to sunshine by mid-morning, the clouds are often gathering before dusk so there haven't been any really colourful sunsets, but yesterday I was up in time to see the sunrise. It wasn't spectacular, but made a nice start to the day.

The one evening photo I did manage to get is very pretty. I really like this one.

So now it is time to link up with Annie at A Stitch in Time. I hope everyone else has found something to smile about, and be grateful for too.