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Or an easy-chair adventure.
We had an ice storm here on Monday. State government was closed for more than 3 days, schools were closed for more than 4 days. It only got above freezing for a few hours all week on Thursday. We didn't get any mail until Wednesday even though Clay cleared the ice off the steps and walkways on Monday. Clay worked from home until Friday.
We spent a lot of time in the living room under blankets watching stuff off the DVR. At some point during the week, Clay realized that our neighbor had starting feeding birds this winter. He started watching birds from his recliner in the bay window of the living room when he wasn't doing something else. In his defense, he was listening his way through
The Goldfinch, so he had hours to kill bird watching.
At some point one afternoon, he excitedly told me he had just watched a hawk catch and kill a small dark bird and the hawk was defeathering and eating it in the weeping cherry tree next door. He said it was gruesome, so I stayed put across the room. I could see the feathers wafting across the big bay window on the north wind. I finally got up to have a look and help him with a Google search and bird identification at about the point these photos were taken. He decided it was a
Cooper's Hawk. I agreed. Looking it up now, I wonder if it might not be a
Sharp-shinned Hawk instead. Either way, am I the only one who thinks large birds are making a huge comeback?
Oh, here in the photos link are the New Orleans cross-stitches that Mom finished up and sent us for Valentine's Day. Thanks, Mom! Love them!
