Starting this post Friday Jan. 17th. I guess I am putting off folding all this laundry, by starting a post.
We continued to be very financially challenged throughout the fall, which meant many gifts purchased second hand at the thrift store. Where else would you find a six audio cassette set of Elfquest comics dramatization for a buckfifty?
I looked through my photos and could not find a single photo of Christmas tree, dinner, etc. Ahhh the blase-ness of the parent of late teens. I do, however have six photos of the Cooper’s hawk that landed on the next door neighbor’s fence to survey my bird feeding station. We were getting ready to go out thrift storing, Pat, Rachel, and I, when I saw this hawk on the fence. I took several photos, then we left the house. He/She was sitting just fifteenish feet away from the ramp to the van, and continued to sit there as we came up. It finally flew away just feet from us, but I had left my camera in the house thinking it would fly away as soon as we opened the house door. Oh well.
My daughter Rachel has been sending letters to relatives as part of her Transitions program at school. My Uncle Larry, in responding to her, described having to go out and break the ice on his pond to provide open water for his visiting birds. I have enjoyed for years watching birds at my bird bath, (an upside down plastic trash lid on four cinder blocks), so I requested and received a bird bath heater years ago for my Christmas present. We have had several hawks over the years checking out the buffet at the bird feeder.