HAPPY NEW WEEK!
I hope everyone has a good week and keeps healthy. I'm hoping that everyone on this forum will avoid the virus. Sending you all protective energy.
BIRD NEWS FROM MY PATCH
The big Barred Owls are nesting at the bottom of the ridge right across from my front door. Every time I go outdoors, one of them gives me a booming hoot. Last year, they nested in a tall, old locust tree on the levee by the creek. We had so much flooding that the nest site turned out to be a precarious perch. I think they remembered it was a dangerous location, so this year they’re nesting low in a tree across from me. They are incredibly loud. Their call sounds like, “Whoo cooks for you? Whoo cooks for you?” They can also caterwaul just like large apes when they're feeling aggressive. They can chill my blood sometimes. LOL!
I walked up the hill to town last week to get a couple of meal items at the little general store. I looked up, and R.T. Hawk was flying above me. He landed on a tall silo and watched while I went into the store. Then, he escorted me back. I think he thought he was protecting me from the big Barred Owls, which are his enemies. I hope they can all stay away from each other. R.T. and his mate are nesting far back in the flood plain away from my house right now.
I could not access the site when I returned from food shop, tried all day, here is yesterday’s drivel.
Very little traffic on roads, car park half empty, sanitiser at entrance to supermarket very low (I have my own in pocket), everyone polite & distant, tape on floor at checkout, chemist now have a glass barrier with slot for scripts to pass, bank “greeter” monitoring numbers in bank at any one time (bus trip refunds safely repaid into my account). OH ignored my advice and insisted on carrying some bags. I told him to wash his hands. I discarded my outer clothes to be washed, and wiped everything before putting away. Maybe overkill but. . . . I shopped for 2 weeks; Easter bunny goodies taken care of and hidden from OH.
I have 20 library books out with due dates starting next week. Yeay, all been extended automatically until 1 May. One can request holds & arrange a time for pickup. Or one can take a “themed book package”, eg children's books, crime fiction, youth fiction etc. I wonder if there is a category of “non-fiction I have not yet read!!!
Outbreak of virus among baggage handlers at Adelaide airport yesterday, more cases today. [Update – now 13 sick with over 100 in self-isolation. Travellers through airport in past 2 weeks advised to wipe their bags.]
Just a thought (especially for ROSY LOL)
I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process. . . it may not be true, but do I dare take the chance? (Anon)
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already. (Dave Barry)
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. (Henny Youngman)
http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/wildlife-webcams/loch-of-lowes/
RSPB Giving Nature a Home
Pat O I loved the you tube video of the song for Bergamo. My Sister and I were in Bergamo for a week in 2016 as she has been writing a book about Giovanni Battista Moroni who was an Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. We loved it there especially the upper Old town. I said to her just the other day that when this virus is over I shall take her back. She is on the last few chapters but is continually rewriting but the end is in site. We travelled to surrounding towns where he was born and travelled to in his lifetime.
I didn't go out anywhere yesterday but must get out today or I will go barmy - or more barmy than Ive already become.
Hope all are well and getting used to the restrictions.
I see that some US news channels have stopped broadcasting Trump's nightly statement and rejoin when Dr Fauci comes on. How those sycophants that stand behind him nodding away, can sleep at night - well hopefully he and they will all be just a distant memory this time next year.
Keep well all and stay safe.
Hope this works - very funny