Coffee on Thursday! #1

Good morning everyone! It is a beautiful, sunny, spring morning here with a temperature of 32F (0C), which is nice for mid morning. I was planning on getting this post out nice and early this morning. I was here early. Sigh. But something happened. My D drive on my laptop was missing.

Gone. Disappeared. Nowhere to be found. That is the drive where I store all my photos. They were gone. Now, I do have them backed up, but I wanted to know what happened to my D drive. Aside from the fact it may have suddenly stopped working. There may have been some other reason for the disappearance. So, I tried to locate it.

Red-breasted Nuthatch on my hand.

Otherwise I would have to use my external drive all the time for my pictures. My C drive is much too small for all of my photos, which is why I have the D drive. My laptop kept saying there was no D drive. I will have to admit, sometimes our modern technology frustrates me. I can use it as long as everything works properly.

I am sure that I showed this one once before, but I love it, such a great pose. This is a female Common Redpoll.

But when it does not work, then I am totally lost. Which is when I get frustrated. I search everywhere for possible answers and get more confused. That does not really help the situation. Sigh. The good point is that everything was backed up. So I did not lose everything, or anything. Except perhaps my sanity. So, I ended up not being early again this morning.

Amazing how things like that happen. Anyway, after 3 tries with rebooting my D drive is back and working perfectly. Apparently there was an update that made it disappear. Sigh. Oh well, minor details. I’m thankful that everything was backed up though. I finally got myself a new mattress this week and I slept on it for the first time last night.

This is a Herring Gull that I named Sir George. He was always the first of my gulls to return in the spring.

I slept great, only woke up once. It is much more firm than my last one, which is what I wanted. I hope it stays that way for a long time. I have seen two gulls this morning, other than that, no other birds, which is kind of odd. I have not even heard the crows this morning and they are usually quite noisy. Oh well, perhaps a bit later.

This is Chuck the Crow, he would arrive before Sir George.

I know, crows are not very exciting, but around here they at least add some bird sounds to the landscape. I know, most people put gulls in that “not very exciting” category too. I’m different. I do enjoy the gulls. I came so close to having Sir Henry take food from my hand, but not quite. Oh well. They were fun anyway. Well, I hope you all have a wonderful day and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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