The big thing this week was Thursday, when my wife and I took the afternoon off and visited an Indian museum about an hour and a half away. But I'll do that one up in a few days; it'll be worth the wait. This time, a few quick updates from around home.
OK, everybody wants to know about the robins, right? We were going to get another picture this evening, and that, of course, means moving one of our kitchen chairs to the front porch, where the nest is located. Tonight, as I took it out the door and set it down, it made a bump. Immediately, a little head popped up.
It was funny, but my wife wasn't there. I called her outside. "Watch," I said as I bumped the chair again. The little head popped up again. She laughed. "He's saying, 'I'm the hungriest! Feed me first!'"
We did it one or two more times, and then we moved the chair over to get our picture and get out of there. We want to disturb the robin family as little as possible. As you see, the fourth egg has hatched, and the nest is getting crowded.
We've got a frost warning overnight, so mother robin is going to be on her nest to protect her little guys.
Also, Zarafa asked about the sunflowers. The sunflower saga started (as you may remember) in late March when my wife started them in an improvised greenhouse--a sub sandwich container she got at the store.
The first batch died (lesson learned: saunalike conditions are no good for baby sunflowers), so she planted a second batch. This is them in mid April.
And by the end of April, as we got into some warmer weather, they got moved to tomato sauce cans and were sun-bathing on the back porch.
She recently moved them outside for good, and that's where they are now. Here are some of them in a photo taken Friday afternoon. Some are easier to see than others, but there are six (of varying heights) all together.
The ruler says the biggest ones are about 18 inches tall. Our sunflower bed is under the kitchen window, in the back yard, but it's a little disorganized. She planted them and some marigolds in some holes she cut in the grass, but there is still grass between the holes, and we haven't really resolved how we're going to handle that. You'll be glad to know (I know my wife was) that all the sunflowers survived my first lawn-mowing after their planting.
One more photo. We went to take my mom to a doctor's appointment on Tuesday. Things went well, and we had dodged the rain most of the day. It was raining a little on the way back home when I spotted something on the road shoulder. Yes, the same highway as before. So I turned around for a second look, and it was what I thought it was. Rain or no rain, I wasn't going to miss this kind of a photo opportunity. Say cheese!
That's all for this time. Weekend plans? Fairly quiet. I've got to do some clean-up work at home--we're having an electrician come in to put in some more outlets in our bedroom and the computer room. Would you believe there's just one outlet in the bedroom? And we've been in this house for 15 or so years.
Plus World Cup and College World Series games. Gotta fit them in, too. Right now, I'd better get to bed. England vs. Paraguay at 8 a.m., and it's past midnight already.
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