{"id":3213,"date":"2011-12-11T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:37:09","slug":"rat-tat-tat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=3213","title":{"rendered":"Rat-tat-tat……"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very big “RAT-TAT-TAT….” because this is what I posted for big in the photo scavenger hunt.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s one of two woodpeckers on a metal “tree trunk” – a sculpture near the CNtower and the Skydome in Toronto. We were down there buying a “Blue Jay’s” (baseball) related gift for our daughter and I just couldn’t resist them. Here is the other one.<\/p>\n

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\nThe birds probably should have been Blue Jays; but they were part of another building unrelated to the stadium. Anyway, my husband thought that they were Blue Jays – colour blindness has it’s benefits.  I’m so glad that he didn’t think that they were real.  I still remember the Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds” – very scary!!!<\/p>\n

And, yes, the picture is related to knitting because the “tree trunk” looks a lot like the bark of the copper beech tree below.<\/p>\n

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It’s very smooth with “holes” in it and I am working on Copper Beech scarf – a lace design taken from its bark.<\/p>\n

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\nI’m about halfway through the scarf and I’ve decided that I do like the “holes.” The border is just a suggestion of leaves; but it softens the large eyelets. I am also swatching for Birch Bark Scarf.  This bark has been a particularly difficult design to capture in lace – it makes taking pictures seem like a “snap.”<\/p>\n

I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n

Have a awesome day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very big “RAT-TAT-TAT….” because this is what I posted for big in the photo scavenger hunt. It’s one of two woodpeckers on a metal “tree trunk” – a sculpture near the CNtower and the Skydome in Toronto. We were down there buying a “Blue Jay’s” (baseball) related gift for our daughter and I just couldn’t resist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}