That bird looks very happy and pleased with itself 🙂
I’m busy taking sample DMV tests as soon as the workday ends, I found some additional tests on the DMV’s YouTube site and ordered a study guide on kindle. Looks like I’ll go in on Tuesday, assuming I can take Monday-Tuesday off.
Monday is the MRI for that other knee that has developed a very minor burning sensation whenever I stand up (but not otherwise), it doesn’t seem to be anything serious, but GP thought it made sense to do an MRI to get a look at it anyway.
Good morning all. My dad and I were able to sit out on the deck enjoying the sunshine and birds (and I enjoyed their music). A beautiful day here. The killdeer are back in town and country.
Son could help you with that, Michelle, but he is probably too busy grading all those compositions. He has to keep up with doing his own academic papers for presentations at conferences.
Sewer guys have been working out there most of the day. Machines on trucks making noises along with occasional men talking loudly so they can hear themselves. I feel tiresome and weary from it all by now.
The header is a common loon, another bird I’ve wanted to see since I was a child. Last year about this time I went to one location partly because I had heard loons had been seen there–the same dam where I found the pair of kingfishers, actually, and that same day–and I did happen to be there when a loon was there, so I had my first sighting, though it was a distant sighting and it spent way too little time above water.
At another spot near there, a week or two later I visited on a day when four or five loons visited–and saw them in three different plumages (winter plumage, summer plumage, and juvenile plumage). This is either the adult winter plumage or the juvenile, I forget which (from the front those two look fairly similar). This one rose out of the water while I was photographing it and flapped its wings; I got several shots of the action, but particularly liked this one with its head tilted to the side and what seems to be a bit of a shrug.
I wouldn’t have recognized it as a loon. Interesting. We have them around here. Some love them and some don’t like them at all. Their call is heard quite often.
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Exciting header . . . great action shot.
Excitement on the street with the trucks and sewer guys at work yet again. This is the environmental contract crew, not the diggers.
It’s a bright and warm start to the day which the birds are singing about.
“Oh, what a beautiful morning! Oh, what a beautiful day! Watch out worms! This morning, I’m coming your way!”
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If that were a child I would imagine just before this she would have said, “Look, mom! Watch me, mom! Mom! Mom! Mom!” :D
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It is raining here so the worms will be floating up soon.
Taking a road trip to Boone today, but can’t find a reasonable hotel. Guess because it is Friday.
Oh, well, I am going
Jo
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That bird is excited because it’s Friday, time for the cartoons!
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That bird looks very happy and pleased with itself 🙂
I’m busy taking sample DMV tests as soon as the workday ends, I found some additional tests on the DMV’s YouTube site and ordered a study guide on kindle. Looks like I’ll go in on Tuesday, assuming I can take Monday-Tuesday off.
Monday is the MRI for that other knee that has developed a very minor burning sensation whenever I stand up (but not otherwise), it doesn’t seem to be anything serious, but GP thought it made sense to do an MRI to get a look at it anyway.
-dj
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Good morning all. My dad and I were able to sit out on the deck enjoying the sunshine and birds (and I enjoyed their music). A beautiful day here. The killdeer are back in town and country.
mumsee
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I’m spending the day with Biddy, writing a paper about how she published her books for a European Theological Library magazine.
It’s like old home week to review my notes, my book, and other books, to put this together.
Due on Wednesday with way too many other things demanding my attention before then.
So, hopefully, I’ll get the whole thing written today.
Anyone know how to write an academic paper abstract????
Yikes!
Google . . . or, in our case, Duck, Duck, Go . . . well there I go!
(At least Word will format the footnotes . . . . )
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Well, that and basketball tonight. 🙂
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Son could help you with that, Michelle, but he is probably too busy grading all those compositions. He has to keep up with doing his own academic papers for presentations at conferences.
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Sewer guys have been working out there most of the day. Machines on trucks making noises along with occasional men talking loudly so they can hear themselves. I feel tiresome and weary from it all by now.
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The header is a common loon, another bird I’ve wanted to see since I was a child. Last year about this time I went to one location partly because I had heard loons had been seen there–the same dam where I found the pair of kingfishers, actually, and that same day–and I did happen to be there when a loon was there, so I had my first sighting, though it was a distant sighting and it spent way too little time above water.
At another spot near there, a week or two later I visited on a day when four or five loons visited–and saw them in three different plumages (winter plumage, summer plumage, and juvenile plumage). This is either the adult winter plumage or the juvenile, I forget which (from the front those two look fairly similar). This one rose out of the water while I was photographing it and flapped its wings; I got several shots of the action, but particularly liked this one with its head tilted to the side and what seems to be a bit of a shrug.
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I wouldn’t have recognized it as a loon. Interesting. We have them around here. Some love them and some don’t like them at all. Their call is heard quite often.
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