Caution: Little or No Knitting Content

Other than to say that I'm working on the second Opal sock, and that I've passed the opening for the heel, there's no knitting content today.

I just had to share this with you. While John was out having a smoke this morning, he called me out to look at this in the lake...

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It is, of course, a heron. We've been seeing him around for a few months now, but this is one of the first decent pictures I've been able to get of him. I'll have to play around with camera settings, I think.

Now, back to cleaning kitchen cupboards. We've been invaded by mice. John laid a couple of traps last night and caught two. They've left quite a bit of evidence of their presence, so everything in the pantry cupboard needs to be washed down with bleach. *sigh*