If you remember D27 was the last Decorah Eagle fitted with a transmitter. She has been quite busy coming home for the winter. She is quite the flier and her wings must be worn out with the miles she travels per hour.
Anyway this a great article about her return home for the winter and what life is like for her up North in Canada.
https://www.raptorresource.org/2019/08/28/22210/?fbclid=IwAR31WWeCeDubZ9V6tT9J6ilcw8rNAfHcA-mzzlH6wy43HlwRDKqFiSGvDB4
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Department of Energy
Stay out of my house. First the government changes the light bulbs and that is crap cos I used to get 4 to a box for a little over a dollar and they lasted forever, now they are $8 each and don't last as long and oh I can't just throw them in the trash. Not buying them now or ever. Then you changed my toilet to low water, you do realize I have to flush more cos you can't put as much in the toilet as you used to. Now they want us to melt.
I keep my temp at 73 24/7 365/366 days a year. It is my right to do that, I pay my bill and yes they are high at various times of the year. But I prefer to be comfortable. I have to wonder how many of you at the DOE have a 2 story house, cos we all know the upstairs where the bedrooms are is a higher degree or cooler depending on what time of year it is. Because the idiots who built my house did not do the vents right it can be as much as 10 degrees warmer in the summer. So if I am to keep my house at 85 during the day i may as well just open the windows and turn off the a/c cos that upstairs is gonna be an oven. Since I am retired I stay home and expect that I can be comfortable. What about pets, do I let them sweat like a fat pig in the mid-day sun?
Tell you what stay out of my life, let the market decide what light bulbs and toilets we use. Let us decide if we want to pay high utility bills and you find a way to keep that electricity coming to my house. And if you want to regulate utilities how about you look into what they pay for that we pay for that are not necessary such as paying for bigwigs to go golfing on my dime, now that is something you can mess in.
I keep my temp at 73 24/7 365/366 days a year. It is my right to do that, I pay my bill and yes they are high at various times of the year. But I prefer to be comfortable. I have to wonder how many of you at the DOE have a 2 story house, cos we all know the upstairs where the bedrooms are is a higher degree or cooler depending on what time of year it is. Because the idiots who built my house did not do the vents right it can be as much as 10 degrees warmer in the summer. So if I am to keep my house at 85 during the day i may as well just open the windows and turn off the a/c cos that upstairs is gonna be an oven. Since I am retired I stay home and expect that I can be comfortable. What about pets, do I let them sweat like a fat pig in the mid-day sun?
Tell you what stay out of my life, let the market decide what light bulbs and toilets we use. Let us decide if we want to pay high utility bills and you find a way to keep that electricity coming to my house. And if you want to regulate utilities how about you look into what they pay for that we pay for that are not necessary such as paying for bigwigs to go golfing on my dime, now that is something you can mess in.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Week 22 Luxury Part 1
1. What would you read with chocolate?
2. What are the luxuries in your life?
3. Are you adventurous enough to sew from a foreign book you cannot read?
Luxury: conjures all kind of things to me: but it is one of those words that means something different to every one of us. For me there is a city about half an hour away that makes wine from honey. Yes it is very sweet and oh so good. They have a raspberry wine that is the perfect companion to a rich piece of chocolate cake. The sugar is so sweet your teeth ache but it is oh so good and a little goes a long way.
I would like to have a skein of quiviut someday but at $95/ounce that is one yarn that I have to save up for. It is so soft. I can only imagine a cowl around my neck not only for the warmth but the feel.
Magnum ice cream bars: the chocolate caramel almond ones. When you take that first bite the chocolate cover cracks and out runs all the wonderful flavors inside. They are not cheap but I consider them a splurge (a luxury).
A rich cup of coffee especially on a cold day. It tastes so good and warms you up, is there anything better on a snowy cold winter day?
A skein of cashmere yarn, flannel sheets, a good book, a cup of cocoa, a rich red wine, champagne, chocolate and more chocolate, a cup of coffee, scones, fig newtons, are just some of my luxuries. I dont have them very often but to me they are a treat, a luxury I allow myself from time to time. I don't need or want a fur coat, lots of jewelry, a huge house or many houses, etc.
What book goes with chocolate, all of them. Chocolate goes with everything, doesn't it?
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Finally
I normally have 2 hummingbirds who nest in my yard but they have been evasive for me getting a picture. Finally yesterday he held long enough for my picture now that they will be leaving soon. I miss them in the winter but then I get to have my Juncos so it is an even trade.
The chickadees were out in full force yesterday afternoon especially after I filled the feeder that hangs on the deck light. I love when they start in with their chick a dee dee dee talk. ONe of my fav birds and they stay all year. The babies are so small and cute.
The chickadees were out in full force yesterday afternoon especially after I filled the feeder that hangs on the deck light. I love when they start in with their chick a dee dee dee talk. ONe of my fav birds and they stay all year. The babies are so small and cute.
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Sunrise, Sunset
One of the reasons I like living in the middle of the country is we have breathtaking sunrises and sunsets. They have been particularly gorgeous this past week. Pink clouds in the morning followed by orange/yellow/purple in the evening.
Visitor to the Meadow Sage
I look out my windows a lot because there is always something going on in the yard. Birds, possums, racoons, feral cats, butterflies, hummingbirds, Japanese beetles, lizards, an occasional snake, fox, deer, etc. I have my own zoo.
The other day I found this beauty.
The other day I found this beauty.
Birthday Gifts
Every year I splurge and buy myself a birthday gift, something I really want. So this year I got 2, why not. A friend posted this kit on FB and I just had to have it. I really only wanted the pattern and now you can get it over there, so it came. I had an orange cat as my first and so this will be perfect. You kind of make it like a sock, so perfect for my obsession of knitting socks. How cute is this?
I have wanted to learn to spin. I took a class and it was a disaster, the teacher was awful. I bought a wheel as my retirement gift and it has sat because family issues came up and I have never got back to learning how. So another friend posted this on FB and I thought maybe if I could skip the part of the feet and hand coordination and just concentrate on my hand work I can learn how to spin. And of course they had purple, so my second gift came on the same day as my sock cat kit. Yes it is small but I need to simplify my learning to someday get all the parts working to make my own yarn. One of the things on my bucket list.
I have wanted to learn to spin. I took a class and it was a disaster, the teacher was awful. I bought a wheel as my retirement gift and it has sat because family issues came up and I have never got back to learning how. So another friend posted this on FB and I thought maybe if I could skip the part of the feet and hand coordination and just concentrate on my hand work I can learn how to spin. And of course they had purple, so my second gift came on the same day as my sock cat kit. Yes it is small but I need to simplify my learning to someday get all the parts working to make my own yarn. One of the things on my bucket list.
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