Sunday, April 19, 2009. I’ve spent the last few days finishing up the May Horizons Magazine and today it goes in to the printer. When I have to stay glued to the keyboard and in the office for days at a time, my only goof-off time is when I am rebooting the computer. Then I may run out in the yard and do some quick task, just to take a break and get out in the sunshine for 20-30 minutes every few hours. That gives me my Vitamin D, too. Sometimes it is enough of a break in the work to simply sign on to Facebook and seek what my buddies are doing. Some days I don’t even get on, and some days I make a dozen or more posts all day long. Here are some of my Facebook posts from the last few days. In Facebook, when you “make a post”, your photo and your name appears in front of each post:
I just got an email with a real compliment… I think. Someone wrote, in response to the pic of me with glasses on my blog site: “Why not be real and use a photo of who you are today, not 20 or 30 years ago?” Obviously they have never met me in person or they would know that’s what I look like and the pic is barely 3 years old.
I just realized it is someone I know who I last saw in 2000 when I was kinda fat. So I guess I now look 20-30 years younger than I did then – cool!
the dozens of little wren like birds have once again descended upon the mulberry tree. The kitties are looking at them like surfers looking at the sea: “I could catch that one, I could catch that one.” They are just wishin’.
it’s too nice out to stay in the office for long. I just took a break to weave a wall of eleagnus and grapevine in the east woods. I also squeezed a fresh sour orange into spring water and sweetened it with 3 fresh stevia leaves from my herb garden. Ok, and a teaspoon of turbinado sugar cuz it’s real sour. Have you hydrated yourself enough today? Water keeps us vital!
I made the best dinner tonight: salad of parsley, romaine, tomato, watermelon and loquats from my tree, dressed simply with lemon juice, my own fresh basil and a little splash of olive oil. Some sea salt, coarse ground pepper and oregano on top. My taste buds are still humming. Ok, now go make one, you know you want to.
is glad to pay taxes to live in a country that’s free and full of opportunity. The more I have to pay, the better I know I’m doing. Uncle Sam want an arm & leg? Cool – I mailed it in. I can re-generate!
The finchy wrens are out there again – they were just here 2 hours ago. There cannot be any ripe mulberries left, guys!
Yawn…up and at it again. It’s only work if I’d rather be doing something else. There’s nothing I’d rather do today than this.
wind sounds like it’s dying down out there. I had to shut my south windows because all the windchimes in the meditation hall were going crazy. We’re talking 72″ long tubular chimes. In concert with the 2 giant windchimes out front, it sounded like a cathedral at noon. Quiet now
Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory
beautiful morning. Just took a walk through my trails and put out the black oil sunflower seeds. Now back in the office watching the yard come alive with squirrels and birds. It doesn’t get any better than this. Oh yes it does, hanging here with you guys.
I just listened once again to Susan Boyle sing I Dreamed a Dream. Wow, it gets me vibrating just where I want to be first thing in the morning.
tried to get another pic of mama cardinal, but she does not like paparazzi at her nest
is going to buy some rimless bifocal eyeglasses. I don’t know anything about them other than I like how they look and they are lightweight and I want flexible frames. If you wear them and have tips on what I should look for, or know where I can find them at the best price, let me know.
Was just outside and noticed hundreds of ladybugs on my bamboo. Come on in gals, help yourself to my aphids!
just strained my left paw raking the underbrush from the palmettos. That’s what I get for playing instead of working on magazine layout. It will be fine by morning.
is having a big parsley and tomato and loquat salad while the rice and peppers cook
I just finished my yoga outside, then went around smelling the different jasmines in bloom in the yard and bending the new saplings into shape. Mama cardinal has been on the desk almost all day. Tomorrow is 12 days since I saw the first egg; it is due to hatch. We’ll see.
Oh neat, channel 59 has a show on container herb gardens and I got one for my birthday! I’m going to watch it
just saw one female cardinal at the birdbath and another in the west woods – whaaaaat? Ran to nest to check egg status and mama cardinal is on her nest. Three mama cardinals at once?? WTF?
is about to take a break for lunch and watch the mama cardinal on the nest. I wonder if that one egg hatched today, she’s been glued to the nest. Let’s see, today’s lunch will be a salad of watermelon, tomato, loquat and parsley.
I sat in the yard at lunch watching the comings and goings, and saw 3 sets of male and female cardinals. That’s is counting the mama on the nest. Seeing them all together, I can tell one set is smaller, and the nesting pair do the same song.
is eating wedges of watermelon and picking out the seeds. I am pretending I am picking pepperoni off pizza 🙂
is going out to do yoga in the west woods. I can keep an eye on the critters from there. Mama cardinal has not gotten off that nest all day. Not even to powder her nose!
flossing my pearly whites
heard a squirmish outside and dashed out in the dark in case a cardinal needing rescuing. The cats had a little mole cornered but I rescued him.
4:28am Ah. My favorite time of day. It’s so quiet and peaceful. No anger in the air. Time for meditation.
had a good meditation today. Hey I think the first egg is hatched under the mama cardinal right now. As soon as it’s daylight, I’ll go sit on the porch and vibe it out and report back.
10am Spring 2009 HatchWatch – mam cardinal is off the nest and I peeked. Still 3 eggs in the nest, none of them have hatched yet. Stay tuned for further updates.
proofreading and more proofreading, watching mama cardinal on her nest. The squirrels are distracting the cats with their antics at the front yard feeder. They are good helpers and they work for peanuts.
just saw a yellow bellied fluffy head singing in the pine. Looks kind of like a little kingfisher with the dark crest… will have to find out what it is
sees that when mama cardinal leaves the nest, fat girl kitty YinYang sneaks over to nonchalantly sharpen her claws on the base of the nesting bush. She’s now been shot with the hose 3 times. I also made a little safety net of moss under the nest, so when the fledglings try to fly, they will fall into the moss just inches from the nest, rather than onto the ground or into a waiting kitty mouth. Curses, foiled again
finishing up the May Horizons Magazine and camped out on the back porch awaiting the hatching of the cardinal eggs. Ah, the life of the wildlife journalist…
is going to make baked beans using blackstrap molasses today and is soaking the beans now. Anyone have a good recipe?
I love blackstrap molasses and it has such good nutrients. I keep it in the refrigerator and chew a soft blob of it every morning.
3:43 heart chakra time! 3 above, 3 below.
Well of course that is using the traditional, old school system of 7 main chakras, the heart being the 4th, with 3 above and 3 below. Yes, I know there are really a gazillion chakras and chakra systems.
I love how the priests doing the exorcisms on tv send the “demons” into the “pits of hell” in Jesus’ name. How about sending them into the Light where they can be transmuted? WWJD?
trying to find a recipe online for baked beans that does not begin with “open can of baked beans”
mama cardinal at the bird bath! I just peeked into the nest – still 3 eggs…
just discovered that the unknown yellow bellied fluffyheaded songbird I saw this morning is a brown-crested flycatcher
Mama cardinal has been off and on the nest all day long. Her mate has been relatively quiet… until now. Oh wait, he’s calling me outside, time to do yoga, he says.
I was wrong, that was the mama cardinal flying back in, announcing her arrival. They have the same song. I just naturally assume the unseen blabbermouth is the male…
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