"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
Not much happening last couple of days. Two nights of poor sleep due mainly to nose ulcerations causing a lot of irritation. Consequently have been getting up a bit later.
Yesterday afternoon we did a major gorcery shop as we had run out of just about everything. The weather has been quite a bit cooler so no swim yesterday but it warmed up again this afternoon and we had a most enjoyable swim. The water is cooling down too so it is harder to acctually get in, lovely though once I am actually in and swimming. Managed 20 laps, non stop, today. That's 200 metres, very happy with progress. Energy levels are definitely improving. Was able to help with the shopping instead of just hanging about yesterday.It's been busy at the bird bath. The day before yesterday a small coyote came to drink. Managed to get a bit of a photo as it was disappearing up the drive. We saw it again on the way home from shopping just up from the house. It is distincitvie because it is quite small and has much more red in it's coat than the other coyotes. A very large jack rabbit also ventured up to the bird bath but the dogs saw it and barked (a lot) so it scampered off. The bird bath is outside the fenced area of the garden so the dogs are not able to chase anything out there.
The squirrels have been very frisky and playing fisticuffs amongst other things. A vast parade of birds, as usual. There was a bird with pink wings and tail that was about the size of a woodpecker and with some black and white markings similar to the woodpeckers. We decided it must have been a genetic mutation, very unusual.
The quails are also coming quite regularly. They have beautiful markins and the males have a funny little feather on top of their head that wobbles around. They are very timid and run of in what looks like hysterics at the slightest movement or sound.
Very entertaining birds that sound a little bit like turkeys and wander about in large groups.Life is good!
Surviving and thriving
Linda
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