My Week in Review
It's Sunday morning, well, at least for another half hour. Went to early church and visited over coffee with friends. Our new vicar preached today. Not a whole lot new since I wrote my beginning entry. Worked outside a little bit this week in addtion to the usual things. There was a slash collection in a field by the fire station yesterday, so Dennis cut down a few more of the lower dead limbs on the trees this week and we dragged and hauled them over by our driveway. Yesterday he then hauled a flat bed trailer heaping with the slash. Borrowed the flat bed from a neighbor. The weather has been really nice. The evenings are staying a lot cooler but the days are sunny and just warm enough. Walked with a couple of neighbors again on Friday.
The other day I was watering my flower beds just a little because I wasn't sure if it would rain or not (it didn't). Well there was a hummingbird that seemed real interested in the hose. It kept hovering down low. Turns out it was the spray from the hose that it was really interested and it eventually just sort of flew into the spray of the hose and just hovered there with its wings and tail spread. So neat and I would have loved to have a picture. It just wanted a little shower. Then a couple of days later we were sitting on the deck about four o'clock in the afternoon. Down at the other end I have a large plant saucer that sits on the corner of the rail filled with water. That's the bird bath. Well, we had a whole bunch of bluebirds (western bluebirds) that came over to it, and one by one, they all took their turn, got in and splashed and then flew off to the trees to dry off. I have had a bluebird house the last two years, and each year they have made a nest. With the number of bluebirds that we saw the other day, I'm sure that at least some of the young have survived. The "hummers" will be migrating soon and most will be gone by the end of September. I'm not sure when the bluebirds migrate but it will probably be soon also. Well, that's my "bird watching" for this week.
This afternoon we are invited over to a party in Evergreen. I made some chocolate chip bar cookies to take. Easier than individual cookies. Heard that it might rain later in the foothills and more possiblity of rain tomorrow. We don't have anything special planned for tomorrow.
Well, that's all for now.
two comments:
Slash is when you kind of slash off the lower dead limbs of trees in order to create more defensible space against wild fires. Common expression out here.
Shirley () - 02 09 08 - 12:45
Slash collection? Never heard of that.
We have quite a few hummingbirds down at the campground. We put out feeders for them.
Paul - 02 09 08 - 09:05
