It rained! Two nights in a row! Not a lot of rain, but, 
I finally blocked the waiting Lisa Souza Tahitian Blue shawl.
It was one of those moments, picking the finished piece up this morning, looking it over, swirling it onto my shoulders, having not till that moment been exactly sure how it would come out, where you think, Wow. This is one of the prettiest things I have ever knitted. This is what I had hoped for. (Thank you, Lisa!)
And.
This evening, a single dove arrived and pecked quietly away alone on the deserted porch, and I looked at it and thought oh honey–you’re a sitting duck. Don’t you know that having no random helter-skelter in the way of the chase is exactly what a hawk wants?
But Coopernicus came in the long way across the yard and the dove happened to glance back over her shoulder just in time and somehow she beat him.
Or else he wasn’t really trying, as he curved around to land on that chair again. He exchanged glances with me, lifted one great foot then the other as he turned and then he took off towards the redwood at great speed. He was dead serious about not being late for dinner tonight.
Y’know? I could get spoiled….