The Good Parts

 

I don't necessarily enjoy sharing the roads with unlit vehicles that meander along in the dark unseen until close calls ensue.
However, one bright side of living near hundreds of Amish families is that lambs and calves and brand spanking new foals abound. 

I am still deeply bogged in trying to give people money. Back in the day we would have received paper bills, written checks, and sent the payments on their way. Now with both of Mom's phones no longer functioning it is impossible to change bank accounts on several of her creditors' websites. They just won't let me add my phone or add the estate account without her phones. Calling is usually unhelpful, as all I get is why they can't help me. Frustrating indeed.

Sometimes I bird a little with this guy

However, although we don't travel like we did before gas prices went up and I got this new part time job chasing Mom and Dad's stuff, we do get out.

And we see some wonderful things, not all of them birds....not that there is any shortage of birds either. Migration is just gaining momentum now and the first warblers and summer sparrows are beginning to show up. (Also some less wonderful but still interesting things, like the flooded pickanick table and the photo below.) It takes some of the sting out of doing battle with the drones.

We often stop to watch the beavers at a small backroad pond
The other day there was a dead one between the bank and the road.
No way of knowing if he was hit by a car, killed by another beaver (pond is tiny and crowded) or met his
demise in some other way. However, check out those chompers!