June Saturday

Look at these two!  Two downey woodpeckers - a fledgling and a parent.  The mom was getting food from  the suet feeder and bringing it down to the fledgling.  These are pleasant to see on a morning like this.  It was a quiet day today - we started out with Team Edge practice of course.  Maddie was doing that while I was doing a bit of shopping and prep for our upcoming trip.  We got home and went to see Nana in Dawsonville, and she seems to be okay.  Certainly in decline and on the weak side, but her spirits were up at our visit.  She could walk although she didn't have that much energy.  She was repetitive, but not too bad, meaning we could have a decent conversation with her.

Can you believe we're still displacing squirrels?  Forty now.  We have forty little squirrel stickers on our trap, and I can't believe word of mouth hasn't gotten around the rest of the forrest about this squirrel black hole, a squirrel Bermuda Triangle at our residence.  Squirrels come to steal and destroy, and never return!  Only Glasseye remains - that's our one-eyed squirrel with a distinctive glassy eye and a tattered left ear.  We think it's a she, and we've allowed her complete access to all our amenities.  She doesn't tear feeders down or come up with inventive ways to ruin things.  

Maddie and I had fun finishing up the "Ultimate Spider-man" game for Disney Infinity today.  We've done it before, but we had this on the hardest level, and at one point we were challenged somewhat.  But we worked together and took down the Green Goblin.  We were having fun with random things after that, shooting at each other and all the usual random mischief that doesn't fall within game objectives.  We have all the characters, so we were doing things as Green Goblin, Spider-man, Venom, Iron Fist, Nova, Iron Man, Hulk, and Black Spider-man too.

Tonight we watched "Titanic," and it was in preparation for a visit to the museum later on.  It's a three-hour and fifteen minute long movie!  But neither Mom or Maddie had seen it before.  Some of the content is for older audiences, and well, okay a lot of it is:  we know how the story ends.  Nevertheless, they enjoyed it for the love story and the tragedy of it all I suppose.  The research and accuracy, though probably not completely perfect, was still admirable - you really feel like you're on the boat touring around.  Next week we'll get even more up close.  It was a good movie though.

We closed out the day with reading, and with prayer.  Mom's been a bit under the weather. She overdid it with the prop room cleaning, although that had to be done.  She'll get some good rest tonight, and probably stay home tomorrow.  It was a full day today, and a good one.