For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Hello everyone! Time for a cup of coffee and relax for a few minutes. Well, the work with the water is still ongoing here in our building. They messed up the hot and cold water lines the other day, but only in some apartments. Like mine. Naturally. Not a big deal though, but they did manage to find out what the problem was yesterday and they fixed it.
However, the apartments in the center of the building did not have their water come back on last night, so they were here working quite late trying to find out what the problem was for that. They did finally fix it. They also found more problems they were not aware of initially, so it is going to take a week longer than anticipated to get everything done. Naturally.

Bohemian Waxwing after a light snowfall.
Things like that always seem to happen. I woke up at 3am this morning. And I was awake. Meaning I was no longer sleepy. So I stayed up. No sense going back to bed, I would just toss and turn and not sleep anyway. No point in that. So I went down and did my laundry. It was nice and quiet down there this morning.
Two men came in from their morning walk about 4am. Who goes out for a morning walk that early? It was cold this morning too. Well, kind of cold, compared to what we have had. Yesterday it was 32F (0C) and this morning it was -10F (-23C), so that is a cool temperature swing in 12 hours. They are also having a problem with heat in the hallways these days, basically there is none.

There was a flock of about 50 of them.
Nothing but cold air blowing through their heating system. I nearly froze doing laundry and I was dressed warm. Okay, maybe “froze” is not quite the right word, but I certainly was cold. Very cold. Fortunately that problem does not affect the apartments. Oh well.
It is a nice, sunny day, even though it is cold. Tomorrow is supposed to be above freezing again. These up and down temperature swings are hard on my body. However, it is better than weeks of bitterly cold which we normally get in winter. So, really, it has been a nice winter. Then there are forest fires. Yep, there are a lot of forest fires still burning from last summer.

I tried to get one looking at me, but this was the best I could do.
Winter does slow them down, but they keep burning. It could be a very bad fire season this year. Today I am showing some Bohemian Waxwings, one of our winter birds that come in from the far north. I am rambling a bit today, but I was up early. Oh well. Have a great weekend everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2024 Steve McLeod.
Hi to everyone!😺 Happy Friday to you as well! Not sure why human people get so excited about Friday. It not beginning day of week and it not last day of week, it not even middle day of week. So, why it so special? My human said that it not last day of week but it still is last day of week. He try similar thing when telling me about first day of week. He find out that doing this with last day of week too is not good idea. It not nice trying to make fun of Muffin. He now lying down on bed because back of legs so sore. What he expect? Last day of week not last day of week. It enough to make me go MEOW!!😾 Anyway, here is funny for today…
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THINGS I HAVE LEARNED LIVING IN TEXAS
~ A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
~ There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in Texas.
~ There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in Texas.
~ ‘Jaw-P?’ means, ‘Did y’all go to the bathroom?
~ There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there is supper.
~ “Backwards and forwards” means “I know everything about you.”
~ The word ‘jeet’ is actually a phrase meaning, ‘Did you eat?’
~ You measure distance in minutes.
~ You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.
~ You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Texas Pete, Tabasco, and Ketchup.
~ You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
~ If it grows, it’ll stick ya. If it crawls, it’ll bite cha.
~ Iced tea is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when you’re two.
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Try resistance training…refuse to go to the gym.
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That all for today everyone, hope your Friday is fun! I come back Monday with more fun for you! Have nicest weekend!
Muffin.😽
©2024 Muffin McLeod.