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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
 For Blogging Circle of friendsWhat does the word adventure mean to you? I read all kinds of books. The best ones are adventures that I can stay in for a while. I read two different true stories last month and this month. One was "The immortal life of Henrietta Laikes " by Rebecca Skloot. The other was "What the ears can hear and can't" by Richard Mainwaring. I also watched an Amazon movie, "Wildcat." As far as today. It was an adventure to get bundled into winter wear and walk 30 feet in the snowstorm to fill the bird feeder. I had other kinds of adventures early in life when I was a lot younger. I rode and owned thoroughbreds. I trained horses, and taught people horsemanship. That was an adventure. Two separate adventures are I traveled to the Panama Canal Zone and gave birth to 4 children. All adventures. Now, it is sometimes an adventure to make it to WDC on a daily basis or get through a winter season. ![Merit Badge in Every Moment Matters
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| For BCoF WHILE WAITING FOR SPRING by Apondia The deer walk daintily into the yard. Their legs slip gracefully along in a one, two, three, four, movement. They pause to graze on tall grasses sticking out of the snow or look around for danger. As they test the air for scent and move their heads one way or another their fuzzy rounded ears are moving to and fro listening. We have experienced some days of quiet grey skies. Six inches of cold wet snow become sloppy with temperatures that keep the snow slightly thawing. The deer have not come to the bird feeder for several days. Today there are seven ringing the bird feeder. Two of them are small yearlings that show up often. When I look out the window they startle and run as a group toward the safety of the gully and the willows. One yearling stays put. He is too short to reach his muzzle into the bird feeder. He grazes up some left-over corn from the ground and wanders slowly away. The sun comes out in the afternoon. With bright sunshine, comes hope that winter weather advisories for our area are wrong. The small herd of deer visiting the bird feeder this early in the day prove the advisory should be heeded. The deer are filling up so they can find deep shelter to weather out the coming storm. I'm sure they will return in the night when they feel safer. Next morning the feeder is empty cleaned to the bottom. I replenish it for the birds that flit back and forth from a close apple tree. The birds will eat their share all day as the wind driven snow flings itself at us. This is the wildlife and us while waiting for Spring. |
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