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Good morning, slept late until 8:00. It makes me late doing morning chores. It is cloudy and rain today sometime. Yesterday, it rained a little but with the thunder, people were in the community swimming pool. Yikes, that is not good.

The Atlantic Ocean is still clear with no disturbances. It is still the high time for hurricanes. Not that I want any.

Have a great day, everyone. :)
 

I was going to take a walk in the arboretum near me this morning but after my neighbor passing
it made me think, Maybe it's not a good idea to walk that when there are very few if any other
people there during a weekday, just in case.
So I am cleaning out my electric fireplace vents instead. I take inner nudges seriously, they have served
me well over my lifetime. Maybe just a walk down to the lake in our community when it's a bit warmer
So you'all stuck with me today! :ROFLMAO:
 
Another beautiful sunny day here with temps supposed to hit the mid-80s. I'm loving it!

I ended up feeling run down and achy yesterday, so I got very little done and went to bed around 7:30 pm. I'm feeling a bit better today and have been hard at work. I have a bunch of book chapters I need to do a second read on. Instead of doing that on the computer I printed them out and will take them to the library and read there. I never did sweep out my garage yesterday, so I plan to do that, too.

So, overall a quiet Monday. But I like quiet days!
 
Hadn't been food shopping for 3 weeks. Got everything I had a list for. Cost... $130.00

4 10 lb bags chicken legs/thighs
1 pk. boneless chicken breast
1 pk. bacon
1 pk polish sausage
2 pk Italian sweet sausage
4 ea creme cheese
1 bottle olive oil (expensive kind)
1 bottle kung pau sauce
1 box cereal
2 cans cherry pie filling
4 cans stewed tomato's
2 jars peanut butter
1 hazelnut coffee creamer
1 pk coffee filters
2 pk tortilla's
2 gal. whole milk
1/2 gal heavy whipping creme
1 pk sour creme
4 lbs flour
1 lb green grapes
1 banana bunch
50ft. clothes line
 
To recap: wind out of the N, 14-21mph, 45°F, trees swaying so sitting felt good today.

These 2 yearling cow elk came by totally unaware they were being watched.

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They took turns feeding under my tree licking the leaking fluids off the trunk or perhaps the salt from my hands on the steps. It's about 25 feet off the ground to the platform.

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Vertical!

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And I caught this one yawning a couple times. They eventually scooted off to the bedding area when wind gusts peaked at 21 mph. Elk lose their audio advantage when wind gets over about 15mp making them feel insecure.


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ttt
 
CarolinaGuy said:
Interesting facts about hummingbirds. I bought a fairly large feeder back in the Spring and there for awhile I was having to fill it every couple days but not as many at it now. I had no idea how territorial they could be or how friendly they are. Sometimes when I am replenishing the feeder there will be one or two that are there within a few feet hovering waiting for me. I usually say "okay, give me a minute" lol
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Hummingbirds can be very territorial, especially while they are nesting and making babies. We get quite a few hummingbirds each spring and summer. During autumn they start leaving for their migrating flight.

They are crazy over the colour red. One day I wore a white t shirt with bold red stripes and a couple of hummingbirds landed on me and tried feeding off me. Lol. It was a really strange experience. I changed right away.

Have you heard them squeal yet? We have some very verbal male hummmgbirds. When we go out to water our petunias they squeal and flutter back and forth. They are so fast.

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I just came from my first meeting of one of the book clubs at my local library (I've been attending one at the library in the next town over for several months); they call the one I attended today the Reverse Book Club because instead of the members choosing one book that everyone reads, we all read a book of our own choice and then share what we liked about it.

Interesting how different the atmosphere is at this one compared to the other... much more erudite and focused. Flannery O'Connor, "A Great Marriage" by Frances Mayes, Faulkner, a non-fiction about the resistance in WWII, and "The God of the Woods" by Liz Moore were mentioned. I gave a run-down of Helen Simonson's "The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club" (her first book--"Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" was very popular and I think her best)

Both groups bring something interesting to the table.
 

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