Sunday Report

I’ve been putting it off for a couple of months, waiting until “after the holidays”, so I saw the podiatrist last Thursday to remove an ingrown toenail. So exotic, eh? I’ll spend the next 2-3 weeks propping up the old gam, doing daily epsom salt foot soaks, and limping around in my birkenstocks. It’s a good time of year for this, as I’m not a fan of cold weather, and I ‘m ready to surge ahead with my Goodreads book challenge, whilst watching videos trashing Harry & Meghan on YT, and snacking.  Such fun…

Oh, the Birds are fun, too. We’ve had a Cooper’s Hawk hanging ’round for a while now, but he/she mostly stayed back in the wood line. Recently, we’ve spotted him/her very close to the feeders, though the birds seem to be aware of her/his presence. In case you didn’t know, Hawks feed on other birds, especially ground-birds like robins, doves, etc. but they’ll eat songbirds right off the feeders if they can. At feeding time we host 3+ dozen birds, usually cardinals, titmice, finches, wrens, and woodpeckers, all of which would make a nice treat for a hawk, so we moved the feeders to hangers under the south porch where the hawks can’t swoop to them. They like a nice gray squirrel, too, and I wonder if that’s why we haven’t seen many of them lately. 

I should be able to get the next chapter of my “Mayne Saga” published this week. That will be over at “All My Ancestors” and you’re always welcome to visit. Most of my writing goes on over at that blog, but you really can’t tell because it’s mostly edits. I’d like to put it all in print this year, so that’s where the intense scribbling is happening…and why this little journal is so boring…

It’s getting wintry around here…bundle up and stay warm! 

Peace