Good morning to everyone who is actually reading this blog and everyone else too since I like to include everyone even if everyone isn’t exactly everyone though everyone always is everyone even when they are not everyone but I will still stay with everyone because that, to me, is everyone that is everyone even when it seems like it never is everyone but that’s just me anyway and maybe to you everyone might mean something else other than everyone and sometimes that is true since it isn’t always everyone and it just depends on what is going on with everyone for everyone to be everyone or not be everyone so I will just leave it as is so I don’t get myself mixed up and that does happen sometimes like I wrote about last week when I became not me for awhile which really felt rather odd so it was nice that they found me again so I could continue being me and that still is enough to make my head spin to think that if my birth certificate is no good than does that really mean I wasn’t born and if I wasn’t born than obviously I can’t be me but if I’m not me than who am I and maybe I don’t really exist and actually some people do find it hard to believe that someone like me could actually exist anyway so for a few minutes I had to agree but nonetheless it was good to get back to reality again even if my reality is hard to believe sometimes and it is even for me!  Sigh.  I just had to have one of those long opening sentences again.  After all, it’s been a while.  And that makes it hard.  Speaking of blankets.  It was sunny today, even though rather cool, and windy, so I decided to hang out a blanket for a while.  Easy enough.  Right.  I shook it a bit over the railing of my deck and a gust of wind grabbed that blanket and blew it in my face.  Haha.  Tried again.  Success this time!  Decided to leave it out there for a bit so spread it on the railing.  Gust of wind grabbed the blanket and whoosh, over my head.  AAAAAA!!!!!  Can’t see!  Almost fell down.  Which is something I find easy to do even without being covered with a blanket.  Sigh.  The blanket ended up on the deck.  On the pile of peanut shells I had just swept up so neatly.  Peanut shells like to stick to the blanket I discovered.  Like glue.  Thus, picking them off one by one.  Sigh.  Easy turned out not to be.  Speaking of birds.  There are a LOT of them around right now.  I have been trying to get some pics of them.  Little birds do not like to sit still. Like this little redpoll below.  Nor do they like to come close.  When I have my camera in hand.  Please note some new photos in my gallery, more to come.  Anyway.  This morning when I went out, no camera, there was a nice little junco, which I have been trying to get a photo of, come right up to me on the deck.  Right by my feet.  Even looked up at me.  Not scared at all.  He KNEW I had no camera with me.  I don’t know how he knew, but he knew.  Always happens that way.  I am trying to get a pic of one of my chipmunks as well.  Same problem.  They KNOW!  Sigh.  Oops.  This was supposed to be about insulatoring.  Sigh.  Got sidetracked.  Again.  So here goes.  Dad and I got up early, went out, found insulators, came home.  There.  That wasn’t so hard.  Doesn’t work?  Sigh.  But we did get up early and off we went.  It was spring, about this time, sun was shining beautifully, though the forecast did say clouds and light showers for the afternoon.  That’s why we were up so early.  So we could be back home before the showers.  This was a new destination, fairly close to home, but we had never checked it out before.  Strange, but true.  There was a nice road to this spot and there was even a good place to park the car, off the road.Okay, not my photo, but it fits(thanks D.L.).  There they were.  Insulators as far as we could see!  Which actually wasn’t very far since there was a curve in the tracks and a hill just a little ways from where we parked the car.  Oh well.  Dad checked to make sure we had everything, even after asking me to check.  Odd.  Anyway, off we went.  It had been a very dry spring, which turned out to be good for us as we came to what normally would have been some very wet areas.  Speaking of normal.  There is a fox sparrow singing outside.  One of my favorite birds.  Would love to get a pic of him.  So guess I had better stop and get outside.  Maybe this will be the time!  Supposed to be much warmer tomorrow and most of the week, so, wherever you are, I hope you are able to get out and enjoy your week!  God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

Good morning to all whether it is morning or not where you are or when you are reading this and I see that most people read my ‘musings’ in the evening and Thursday is the most popular day to read which is quite interesting even though the evening reading would be expected it does make me wonder why Thursday is the most popular day but that’s the way it goes and I guess one day has to be more popular than the others so why not Thursday I suppose but still it does make me wonder.  Oh well.  Some warmer spring like weather has finally arrived today, it is beautifully sunny, somewhat breezy and the snow/ice is actually doing some real melting today.  The ice is about a foot thick outside my place so it may take a bit to melt.  But at least it is starting.  AND, Sir George has brought his mate with him now and with both those two big birds on my feeder there is not much room to move around and pick up food.  But they do it anyway.  AND, I got some pics, as you can see.

It’s kind of nice to see them both together like that, sharing the food and glucking to each other.  That is what it sounds like, gluck.  That is also how Sir George lets me know that he is out there waiting for breakfast.  Or lunch.  I still need to think of a name for Sir George’s mate.  Usually that is not hard for me to do, but it’s a little tougher this time for some reason.  I’m having a hard time thinking these days.  I think.  Sigh.  It’s also nice to hear the loons back, calling their mournful cry early each morning.  There is not much open water for them yet, but after today that will change somewhat.  The birds are late returning this year, but that is due to the unseasonably very cold weather we have been experiencing.  This has been my longest winter since coming to this town back in, well, a while ago.  I won’t say how long.  But it’s been a while.  Sigh.  Have had a different rock dove around lately.  He/she is a rather different color from any I have seen over the years.  And I have been keeping track of birds for…well, let’s just say, quite a while.  The header photo at the top of this blog shows the color very well.  Kind of nice to see something different once in a while.  Although some people would disagree, they don’t seem to like my birds, or other critters.  Odd.  But then, so am I.  Sigh.  There definitely must be something wrong with me.  I mean, strange things happen to me that never seem to happen to other people.  Like today.  The day started off okay, sunny, not too cold, went out for COFFEE with ________, then went down to the government office to do something that needed to be done.  That’s where the problems started.  I needed ID.  Which unfortunately I do not have much of.  One reason I was there today.  Needed to renew something.  Oddly, the problems didn’t come from where I thought they would.  It happened to be my birth certificate.  Which is as old as me.  Naturally.  It’s made of paper.  For those of you who do not know what that is, you will have to look it up.  Anyway, since it comes from a different province did not help the situation either.  Basically I kind of ceased to exist for a bit.  But the young lady at the office was very nice and helpful and patient.  After hours of being in this place, at least it felt like that, they asked if I had ever had a driver’s license in this province.  Of course, I just don’t have one now.  So they finally found my old info from my old license and that took care of the problem.  Finally.  I hope.  Now I also have a new ID card so this won’t be a problem in the future.  I hope.  One never knows when it concerns me.  Sigh.  The bears are back.  A mama and cub.  And she is quite big, considering this is spring, when she is thin.  The little critter is little.  This, of course, brings about my usual summer problem, keeping the garbage indoors so the bears don’t scatter things all over the yard.  Sigh.  Poor Muffin. She does not like bears at all.  Will be putting some new pics in my gallery soon.  If I remember.  Sigh.  Maybe next time I can start with some insulatoring stories again.  It’s that time of year.  Enjoy your week and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.