G'morning Peacock Babies!

Seven hatchlings have their first breakfast in the corner of our backyard. Cheerios brought excited sounds from mom and babies. I managed to catch 6 babies in this photo.
Looks like 3 will be white! I don't know if there's a way to tell the girls from the boys yet. Here's a photo of mom's face. Can you find all 4 bebes in this photo?
The round red thing in the center foreground is a peach. These peacocks are dining in the shade of a peach tree and since we don't live in Georgia, these are nowhere near as large as Georgia peaches, but the flavor is outrageous! Concentrated peachiness. The cool thing about peaches fresh off of the tree is that the fuzz is warm and dry, and if you smother them in heavy cream, there's something about the fuzz that turns the cream into thickened "clotted" cream in 5 minutes or so. It seems more like a chemical reaction than a simple fiber thickening and it doesn't happen if the peach is rinsed or storebought.

None of this has anything to do with crocheted toys....yet....

10-Minute Fishin' Belt

Tonight 'Bob' was in a school play. He played the part of a boy who just wants to go fishin' all summer vacation. Only problem was, his jeans wouldn't stay up. Well, it's not a problem if yer ma crochets.

His ma figured, if jute's good enough for the hamster yurt, it's good enough fer my boy! And with a P hook, she did 65 foundation single crochet stitches in the 10 minutes it took fer Pa to drive to school.

(Photo tutorial here for the fsc.)

Guest Designer "Bob"

My guest designer for today, "Bob", invented a toy for his crochetin' Mom:

It's a helpful caddy that has a large well to hold the yarn or thread, smaller wells for beads, stitch markers, buttons, tape measure, yarn needles, etc., and clay loops for crochet hooks and scissors. This one is v.3 and includes Bob's signature feature, a tensioning hole through which the working strand of yarn/thread can be fed. (The 2 earlier designs are smaller with fewer pockets and loops).

"Bob", a longtime clay builder, just turned eight and his wish for a pottery wheel came true: