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Monday, May 30, 2011

Good news! I was wrong!

Just returned from checking out Facebook photos of the empty nest in Florida. You can catch up by reading my earlier blog that starts out with Old Shep... And I was wrong! Things in Bird World really do work that fast. The kids are trying out their wings, their redbird parents and their human ones... Sign in to see full entry.

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Old Shep is gone. He's living happily on the farm.

My Florida daughter's been photo-documenting the progress of a Cardinal family. The redbirds built a low hanging nest in a tree just outside their back fence. Low enough that she could, in the little hen's absence, hold her phone-camera up and get a pic of the nest. Soon after the construction was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 29, 2011

From "News of the Weird" April 3, 2003

GOOD KARMA In Calcutta, India, a year old boy, troubled with a second penis, was undergoing surgery to remove it, when his surgeon was told another boy had just been born without one. Waste not, want not – the transplant was quickly done. Will they become friends? Will the recipient let the donor... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Redbird Babies

Daughter is celebrating her graduation a couple weeks ago by lollygagging around the house, packing for her move to an apartment in Orlando in a couple months, pre-reading her One-L (first level law student) book about what to expect, and catching up on things. She's been watching as a pair of red... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 27, 2011

My last nerve...

I first heard that expression "you're getting on my last nerve" a couple years ago. It is such a perfect phrase for that point of no return feeling when circumstance or a stubborn child has driven a mother to distraction or the impulse to deadly force. It's fair warning, like the count-up to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

My gut's still clenched

Yesterday, again, tornadoes played hopscotch across the country, street lights came on early in the day, debris flew. I stepped out on the porch during a lull to watch some birds, big ones, circling high on thermals. I think they might have been turkey buzzards -- a dozen or so of them live in this... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

And the winner is:

VictoriaP. She recognized the sentence "I'll think about it tomorrow" as Scarlett O'Hara's curtain line from Gone With the Wind. That seems to be a theme his year -- and we're all still in Kansas as one storm after another tries to sweep Toto away and send straws through telephone poles. Truth be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

No blog today.

I'm catching up on my filing. I hate filing. Tomorrow. I'll think about it tomorrow. (Do you know who said this line? What movie?) Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 23, 2011

Stormy Weather...

It's on my mind this morning, an old, blues song my mama used to sing: "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky, stormy weather since my man and I ain't together keeps rainin all the time, the time keeps rainin all the time." Joplin. I was watching last night as our NBC channel was on the scene... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Crap! The world didn't end.

Guess I'll go ahead and pay the electric bill. What's that old saying? Beware of false prophets. Or was it wolves in sheep's clothing? Maybe both. Granny Brag Grandson Matt graduates high school this afternoon. His summer job starts in a couple weeks -- this will be his third year. St. Louis has... Sign in to see full entry.

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