HAPPY NEW WEEK!
The day was weirdly warm here, so I sat on my enclosed porch for awhile and gave myself a haircut. The male cardinal visited his old nest at the end of my porch (there must be dead insects he's eating). Then, he helped himself to some weed seeds. I always leave the tall weeds at that end of the porch because he likes ro eat those seeds all winter. HIs bright red feathers were very Christmasy.
This is a hard time of year for lots of folks. Also, I know many of you are facing challenges and rough days right now. My thoughts are with all of you, and I wish I could lighten your burdens.
Hugs and love to all.
Heather - so glad to see you are reading our posts. I do hope you are making progress and feeling better.
DIANE – Thank you. You always start our week with encouraging words.
Dau & Co visited Sunday arvo, Trio decorated our tree – without any arguments! I planned to visit city today (postponed because of Friday storms), However I was woken at crack of dawn by a loud crack of thunder. Rain & thunder persisted throughout the day. We had a 2-hour power outage and I lost 15 mins data entry on computer. Bleah. We were lucky - this evening some 30,000 are still without power. I shall try again tomorrow to visit library for my family research. Shhh, don’t tell the weather gods my plans.
http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/wildlife-webcams/loch-of-lowes/
RSPB Giving Nature a Home
Yes RUSTY, third time lucky. Despite showery day predicted, I went io State Library. I solved some mysteries, but others still unknown. Chatted to one of the staff about family history, yeay, a human not family! On way home I called into local library to collect a book that I had requested months ago. A new book, obviously popular, long waiting list. I arrived home just a few minutes before yet another thunderstorm hit. Our rainfall this month has been (so far) twice the December average. Saturday's wash is dry at last in garage. Must away to check supermarket specials & prepare tomorrow’s food shopping list.
I meant to come on last evening to describe our disastrous day, but was too tired as bedtime approached. Don't worry, nothing wrong! We decided to liven up a wet Monday by going out for lunch in our favourite garden centre, and having a poke around. We drove there, about 20 minutes, to find a queue of cars in the road. By the time we reached the entrance we were able to ask a man what was going on. He said that they had lost power supply so had to remain closed!
We drove away, with many others. What to do, now? We didn't want to go to a pub (there are many of those) so I suggested going a bit further to the sister garden centre which is in a nearby town. We drove there - about half an hour in total, and found space in the busy car park. Of course, by now it was prime time for lunch and so it was really busy. My OH joined the enormous queue for ordering food whilst I guarded our table. He waited about 20 minutes in the queue only to be told that food was being served but could be another half an hour arriving!
If I'd known, I would have said let's go home, but he ordered before telling me. So we sat. And sat. It was indeed at least another half an hour before my cheese & ham toastie and my OHs baked potato arrived. I didn't tell him, but it wasn't even particularly good :-( A limp bit of lettuce & half a dozen crisps were with it. Then we trawled around the Christmassy displays. I bought one roll of wrapping paper, & a squeaky toy for Bonnie! We eventually got back home about 3 or more hours after leaving, tired and ready for a cuppa!