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Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Waking to thunder

And also to the cooing of doves. Yes, the doves were back this morning, the adults cuddling up in the nest together. I don't think there are eggs yet, as they have both now flown off, but no doubt there will be some soon. It's what they do. The morning comes on glowering and grumbling. Well, we all have mornings like that. Yesterday I posted my first installment of HERETICS: Pilgrimage over on my Patreon page. I am waiting for feedback now, and getting ready to prep the next bit. Sitting here at... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 1, 2020

Remembering the 60s

I was beginning to pay attention to the world outside my own life in the 60s, a time of gentle sprouting flowers inviting peace and simple happiness, even as Vietnam body-counts traumatized the country daily. There was the enthusiasm for new freedoms and the abuses of those freedoms; the flowers were tainted with drugs, and free love was both blessing and curse. Changing gender roles confused and frustrated. Authority took on sinister shadows, and we learned to trust warily if at all, because... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Witness

Got up this sunny morning around 7:30, and the second doveling has gone. So now is when I clean up the deck and arrange it for my personal use. There is a brief window in which to do this, I expect, considering that the adult doves will likely be back for another go 'round, in a day or two. This time, though, they'll have to put up with my occasional sitting out in the daylight. Amid the horror of violence in so many American cities, I see a thing that encourages hope: all the many cameras... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, May 30, 2020

Saturday is Fly-day!

Another lovely, blue-sky morning... with promises of thunderstorms later... but the weather forecasts have not been very good with accuracy these past days. Yesterday it did cloud up, but nary a storm seen nor heard. I had a call from my sister now living in a senior community in Boulder. That's a rare thing, she is not much of a phone-talker. But her email has been wonky, so she called to let me know she received my latest, but could not reply. We had a great chat... She has found her street... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, May 29, 2020

TAPS is back!

excerpted from her PM on Facebook: I'm back. I haven't yet read all the messages above because I am like several months behind in everything and only two thirds back physically, mentally and emotionally, and my house keeping and mail and computing and everything are pretty much all the way back. It is going to take me a long, long time to get caught up and I'm not even going to try to touch Mark's quarters (Ribcage) until I get everything else done. It is going to sit there with the door closed... Sign in to see full entry.

Update on our TAPS

She is home again, and feeling much better--however, her computer is sulking after her absence, and so she may not make it on here again for a little while, while she talks it down, or even brings in a professional computer comforter. Sign in to see full entry.

Summer skies

The dovelings did not fly yesterday, but this morning one has left the nest to flutter around the deck. It has not yet summoned the daring to leap out into the world of trees and skies. The other keeps a thoughtful eye on the first. The 'severe hail' we were threatened with yesterday never came. Not while we were watching and waiting, plants all prepared for it. But maybe this weekend. Right now, there are no clouds at all over the mountains where all this tends to originate. In the year I drove... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Sunny Wednesday

It's a lovely warm day with sun and dovelings and drugs in the offing...! I think the young doves will fly today. They are getting soooo big! Then, for a time, my deck will be mine again. I have no doubt that the parents will soon be making adjustments with a few new twigs to the nest, and the next brood will be in process. Meantime, my pharmacy has re-opened, and I can go get the meds that have been in need of refills for weeks now. They are all for diet-related conditions--gout, diabetes,... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Responding to Pat's post today...

In those days just after WWII, the young adults had come out of war, and their parents, the Great Depression. People remembered how it was to lack and to need and to wait. Kids of the 50s, we had Viet Nam and national division and deep suspicion of our government. But we had licence like never in living history, too, with The Pill making 'safe sex' possible, and relaxation on stigmatized traditions, like divorce and therapy and abortion. There was money flowing. We were patriotic, we were eager... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, May 22, 2020

And suddenly, Friday is back...

Here it is 10am and I've been up since 5:30... coffee has gone cold, but that's okay... Workers outside the house have been doing something loud and persistant for some time now, a noise like being on a plane in flight. So it is not as annoying as, say, a jackhammer would be. I am getting my psych up for going out in the sunlight--yay for Vit D!--and replanting some beets, and watering the garden. Well, that waits until Charlie gets up and about--extreme night-owl, him, so that won't be... Sign in to see full entry.

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