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| Jimi 'n' Janis maybe???? |
Hit by the season. I don't do well with short days. Cloudy, gloomy short days are the worst.
This is a cloudy, gloomy, short day with a time change. Arghhh!
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| Da chef (Lisa is a chef too, but I didn't get a good pic of her) |
Still we had a great party yesterday. Not everyone could come but some folks from very far away made it....even my famous cousin. Another of my many, marvelous cousins brought me a delightful pair of china plates with BIRDS on them! Golden Crowned Kinglets to be exact. Delightful!
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| Everyone got into the wig....er....act |
The party was fun.
Food was great, (Matt and Lisa keep improving their barbecue until it is a good thing I don't live with them....see personal description below) companionship ditto, and some of the costumes of the season outstanding. Some folks did such a good job that other close family members were asking who they were. I didn't exactly knock myself out.....Alan got me a blaze orange hoodie and I went as a pumpkin. I was already round, so it was just a matter of gilding the gourd so to speak.
Now I will return to my gloomy grump and contemplate dragging myself outside to see what the jays are all about. The other day when the birds were making odd noises and I went outside to check I was treated to a Sharp-shinned Hawk right in the Winesap apple tree.
Grey ghost swift-winging, silent as murder, secret as death. It was able to fly away without me seeing where it went even when I was looking right at the place where it landed.
Talk about spooky.
You made my dark day brighter by sharing yours
ReplyDelete" . . . gilding the gourd . . " :)
ReplyDeletePeggy is such a cutie! And trust me - I know just what mean about these shorter days. We have the same affliction. It must help a little to have her sweetness nearby.
As for that accipiter - I have trouble not wanting to shoot them. I think it's a Cooper's that's really gone after my feeder birds.
Your description was - perfect.
Jan, glad to be of service. I am so grateful for the young folks around us. Without them I would be a hermit!
ReplyDeleteCathy, the whole short day thing crept up on me, and then the time change pushed me over the edge. I could barely crawl out of bed this morning and I am still so-o-o-o-o-o sleepy. Winter is way too long!And thanks! We had a Coop earlier in the spring and it hunted relentlessly, although I never saw it take anything or found any feathers. I haven't seen this Sharpie again, nor have I heard much in the way of alarming, but it may still be hanging around. Time will tell.
I don't do well either...and the time change DOES NOT HELP!!! Growl.
ReplyDeleteLinda
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