Bird Day

 It has been a long day in which I woke up way before I wanted.  I've decided to play it like I will get the job and prepare myself for the third shift.  It will be a three day work week, about ten hours a day.  Well, night and morning.  I've wanted a three day work week for a while, let's hope I like the schedule as much as I think I will.  Thinking about this as I sat on my hammock swing today I imagined how nice it might be to sleep outside during warm summer days.  Then a helicopter flew over and motorcycles zoomed by.  I'm currently in a how-this-will-effect-my-home-life frame of mind rather than a what-will-the-job-be-like frame of mind.  Daydreaming and the following are my happy things for today:

• I've been trying to come up with names for the different yard areas we have.  I'm having a hard time coming up with anything original.  Where the pool was, the yard by the garden, aren't really names I was hoping for.  Even 'relaxation grove' doesn't quite hit the spot for me.  I'll have to discuss it with the family later.  What I am realizing though, is that ruminating seems to be a happy thing for me today.
• The blueberry and strawberry plants have netting over them finally.  It took some time and mistakes were made, but I think it will work.

Strawberry.

Strawberries and blueberries covered.

• The birds have been enjoying perching on the frame before I got the net up.  They seem to still perch there and I haven't noticed them trying to get in yet.  👍
• While observing the netting and sitting in the hammock swing I had some robins get fairly close while looking for food.

A pretty pair.

• The deer are getting into the garden.  At least I think it was deer.  We haven't finished the fence yet.  The tops of about half the peas are gone.  I did a quick covering of those with netting too.  It will become part of the fence, but for now I hope it will do.  On one of the plants that didn't get the top chomped off there is a flower.

I planted two different types
and don't remember which this is.

• Earlier this week when I was pulling up bittersweet I thought I might be near a bird nest.  Today, I might have found it.  I was getting ready to pull more of the autumn olive tree away and there it was.

Fairly sure it was built after the tree came down.

• Also pretty sure a hawk flew overhead.  

It was being chased by another bird.

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Currently reading: The Backyard Homestead, by Carleen Madigan.

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Happy Monday!

  Keziah and I went to help out a friend today who, in the SCA, is getting ready to be promoted into the Peerage.  We went there to help by distracting her toddler and to assist in the planning process.  The toddler is not used to people, but very adorable and has a rather contagious laugh.  I got the first smile from her, but they played best with Keziah.  When she was a baby, she liked to be held by me.  Then covid came and people just couldn't see each other.  Toddler laughter and the following are my happy things for today:

• There is a part of Manchester, NH that I don't like to drive through, but I enjoy being a passenger.  As we speed through the city on the highway I watch the river with the former industrial revolution factories as a backdrop and it is a part of the city that brings on a feeling of nostalgia.  When I was a child, I lived in a neighboring town and going to Manchester could mean an exciting shopping trip.  Later, my former husband and I lived there when Keziah was born and I worked for a short time in one of those factory-buildings-turned-offices.  

• There was a lovely tree in our friend's yard that I haven't identified.  I just loved the flowers on it.

• After this evening's walk I took a quick peek in the garden.  Peas are definitely sprouting.  I need to get out there more.

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Currently reading: The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner, by Ann Larkin Hansen.

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