Nature watching

I love animals, any kind of animal, so does my brother and my nephew. It has to be something in our blood. I watched "Birders: the Central Park effect" because Whit recommended it on her blog and I've been looking for birding since then. I was double happy, first, because of the film (which I love love love) and second, because I understood everything without subtitles! Hooray! I tried to do some birding last week when I went to my brother's little paradise. I carried my binoculars, but I couldn't see anything. But my nephew loved to see through them the mountains and the cars at evening, so it was worth it.

We made some birds feeders, but they didn't attract any. So I looked for other kind of living things. If you don't like spiders beware of this huge one! I think it's beautiful. I love the drawing on its... forehead? head? mouth? I don't even know where its eyes are! I think it looks like a crab.

And also some beautiful flowers. My mummy, also known as the flower fairy, is planting beauties everywhere. When the flowers are blooming she always says to me: "Have you taken pics to the flowers for your blog?". I love her.

Have you said today to your mom that you love her?

Rantamplán

I have been sewing, painting, taking photos and daydreaming those days. And trying to complete my September goals. I didn't go to the gym and I'm not stretching myself out. But I posted more, I passed my FCE exam and some more things, so I deserved a present. I bought this activity journal by Geninne and this book by Margaux Motin. One of the goals for October will be painting/creating more. I'll try to be an artist, well, I already think I am an artist, but I'll improve my art. I'll try to stamp into fabrics and to model some Fimo clay. I have an artist's stuff shopping list, just 3 or 4 things I didn't have yet. If you want to improve your materials I found very useful what Geninne and Afsaneh said.




















As I've been melancholic lately, I found those photos of my pretty boy, actually my brother's pretty boy. He's a great dog and very patient with his crazy ladyfriend. But I always stroke him and I'm the only one who really cares about his walks. He was so sad the first time he arrived here and now he's so happy. I'll adopt a pet someday... I know. I was so happy when my brother told me they had a pet from the street and his name was Rantamplán ( Rantanplan, you know, from Lucky Luke). I think Lucky Luke was my first love. I loved the song and the fact that he was the cowboy known to shoot faster than his shadow. Oh, and he was always travelling with Jolly Jumper with no home and his outfit... too cool for not being in love with him.

By the way, those pics are from April 2012, now he's got more white hair and as every summer, he's more fat. Every summer he eats so many figs, not just the ones which are on the floor, he also jumps (quite a lot) to reach the biggest ones.

Growing up

Some time ago I spent a weekend at my brother's countryside house. He's living where my grandparents used to have the animals and a small house with a little swimming pool (all built by my granduncle). It's located in a quiet place where there are not motorways, just ground roads. It's relative near from the city, but far enough for being in complete silence at night. Just with the crickets song, if you like it as I do you'd love it as I do.

He's really skillful, so he built many things to make the place more comfortable and useful as well as safe for their son. Little by little he has been growing up a vegetable garden, which has been getting bigger lately. I love the fact I can pick my dessert up from the bush. And, as he has got some chickens he's growing some corn to feed them.

La caseta del Tete

¡Por fin he conseguido acordarme de todo cuando voy a casa de mi hermano! Siempre se me olvidaba la cámara, o hacer las fotos, o pasarlas, o me acordaba cuando ya no había luz... Pero al fin he conseguido un par de fotos.

Éste es el huerto donde mi tete y mi padre cultivan lo que les apetece. Ahora hay fresas, que extrañamente están sacando flor a estas alturas. Han dado ya algunas fresitas (salvajes) que tienen mucho sabor, aunque son muy pequeñas.

Y estás gallinas tan hermosas las compró por internet, en huevos, y míralas ahora tan majas ellas y tan grandes. Al principio parecía que iban a salir muy diferentes pero al hacerse grandes se han quedado a rayas y grises.

Con la excepción del gallo inverso. Digo inverso porque es blanco con rayas negras, aunque tiene pocas y principalmente en la cola.

¡Qué ricos los huevos caseros!