Sewing, Inaugurations and the Zoo

I keep saying to myself, "I could post that" and then when I have a chance, I totally forget. I guess I should write it down while I'm thinking about it.

Right now I am sewing a pair of pants and last night I sat down to work on them. I pined and marked and lined things up but when I sat down to sew the material wouldn't feed through the machine. I tried again (after undoing the knot in the thread) and it still wouldn't go. I then noticed that the feed dogs (the tracks that pull the material through) were not coming up high enough to catch the material. I looked in my book and couldn't find anything so I looked online to try and see what was wrong. The only thing I could find was that the feed dogs had been lowered, but I didn't know how. So, once again, I looked in the book, and finally found that there was a way to raise or lower the feed dogs and that was what had happened. Yay for little brothers, they just cause all sorts of wonderful problems.

On Tuesday, our choir director brought in a tv so that we could pause class and watch the inauguration. For the most part, our choir is anti-Obama (myself included) and so you can imagine what it was like to watch it with them. There were constantly "smart" remarks and plenty of hooting when the words got messed up. I must admit, I am curious as to what will happen during this presidency. I wish that I could know without experienceing it.

This afternoon we went to the zoo because it was 75 degrees outside.



Notice, the deer is trying to eat the fence, at least that's what it looks like.



This was one huge turkey!



Grizzley Bears



Western Hognose



Rattlesnake



Berries



Me

The wing-span of a bald eagle can be up to 7 ft. Since, in general, your arms are as wide as you are tall, you would have to be 7 ft tall to actually reach from one end to the other!



Bald Eagle



American Alligator



Cute Children

~Ellentia