The Robining

Here are a few more shots from our bird feeder camera, which takes quite a few duds, but right there in the midst are some really fun pictures of our bird visitors.  I like that image of the bluebird up there.  You got to have the dried worms out there to attract them, although the grackle and mockingbird and robins are pretty pushy.  Speaking of robins, once a year we have an event in our front yard.  I call it... the Robining!  That's because - no joke, there's well over fifty and maybe upwards to eighty robins in our front yard all at the same time.  I usually think of them as solitary sorts of birds, bounding through yards looking for worms or whatever.  But beneath our mighty Bradford trees are seeds - or something - that apparently attracts a massive flock of robins.  It's almost unsettling looking out there in the front yard and seeing it teeming with robins.  The ground moves, there are just so many out there! 

Emma picked up Maddie this morning, and the two went out for coffee together before heading to chapel.  Emma has been so kind, and I'm glad the two can talk and catch up.  Chapel was good, although at one point nobody could leave the North Campus because there was a suspicious package dropped off at the Race Trac gas station nearby, closing the road.  Eventually, there was an all-clear - and I was able to go pick up Maddie.

So Mom is still recovering, and I'm watching over her and doing some work from home.  I did do some walking today, more marching along a virtual path with an Elvis theme there.  Suddenly we're getting these Graceland advertisements on social media and on television.  Someone's listening in!

Maddie was at taekwondo tonight, and that was a night for helping with instruction, but also for leadership class.  Afterwards, she visited with Nate for a bit, as he's been sick this week.  It's been tough on him lately.  Mom and Nate - both sick and recovering.  Fortunately, there aren't any big events going on right now.

Tonight's feature movie was "Abominable," which is one of our seasonal favorites here.  We were off to reading from "The Fifth Elephant" after that, and then bed after prayers.  It was a good day.  Maddie's been working on some artwork for Nate, including some origami that she's hooked on.  I'm using this AI song tool to create some really fun versions of each and every Psalm.  It's taking a while, but some of these Psalms are pretty cool.  I'm not sure what King David would think of what I'm doing with his lyrics.  But if anything, I've got the lyrics in my head, because we all know that singing verses is an easier way to memorize things.

Okay, time for sleep.  We all get to sleep in tomorrow, somewhat!