Friday, March 6

Awfully quiet day…

It’s been a hard day for blogging since just about nothing of interest to anybody happened. We stuffed the yowling, hissing, scratching cat into his carrying cage and he got hauled over to the vet for her to chew him out for being too fat. He could get diabetes if this keeps up, she said. (She acted as if this were a problem.) He really hates his plastic cage he has to be in for transport, though by the time he got home he seemed normal.

The big black ravens got breakfast twice. I fed them some dry dog food, then Karla did the same seeing that they were standing on the feeding rock with no food. They are a gluttonous bunch and had sucked down the first batch pronto. What they don’t eat will be carted off by the new ground squirrel that’s moved close to the house.

Hundreds of wild birds stormed their feeder and actually emptied the morning load of seed by just a bit after noon. I need a movie camera to catch that frantic action. It’s really amusing, but is starting to dent the wallet for food money.

The neighbor who does birdwatching spotted a bald eagle in a bull pine tree and got a decent though grainy picture. Graininess comes from either too little light for a good exposure or too great an enlargement because the bird was five miles away. I think that must make 81 species of birds they’ve counted in this valley.

Yesterday I received a preview of a new coffee label being designed by daughter Hilary. It’s a hoot and should make the coffee fly off the shelves into people’s shopping carts. Look for it soon wherever Blind Dog Coffee Roasters product is sold.

That’s all for today…you may go back to doing something productive now.

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