Fools Crow

This crow stubbornly refused to budge from from the roadway this morning, making drivers (including me) change lanes to go around him. 

The Sparrow

I'm sitting on the patio with huck and there's a pretty good rain coming down. God bless the patio umbrella.  Before that,  I found this sparrow sitting on my car's rear wiper when I was taking out the trash.

I think the bird was injured or stunned, bc he didn't fly away.  I fed him some mealworms, and when I returned to check on him ten minutes later he was nowhere to be found. 

Bird Rescue

After a hell of a lot of calling around .. the humane society finally called back and said if we can bring our little injured birdie in he can get help.. so my niece LuLu and my Dad are off to the birdie hospital with him .  - Aunt Katie

Our Day

We're down one car (more on that later) and with appointments all over town this morning I biked to one, Lisa headed to Brookfield for another, and I sent the two youngest to swim class on their bikes. I came home to find PD and LK salty as heck. Apparently our calendar was wrong and there was no class and they were locked out of the house. They called grandma to come unlock the door but I got home in time. Hardly a tragedy. But what was is that a baby bird fell to its death in our yard. I buried him with honors. 

 By the way, if you are 300 pounds and have a bad hip, I strongly suggest you do not bike 2 miles uphill to an appointment unless you have ample time to do so. I made it in time, but I will pay for it shortly