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  April 20, 2026 Ok, Monday, yes, you start a new week and the potential of satisfaction happening does exist.  I can finish tasks this week, it can happen.   I did make it to the Y this morning.  I was proud of myself.  I get tired easily all of a sudden. I did take a shorter nap and I did go to the rookery where it was 53 degrees and snowing. What has happened to our world. You've got a dark brown bodied duck with a purple under wing, what is he? And I believe this is my first eagle siting of the year at the rookery, but he's very strange looking.    Is he missing feathers? Is his tail dark and feet white?  What's going on?  He hung out at the rookery for 10 minutes or so and went from high place to high place and he never landed in a way that gave me a full profile.  I think he looks like he's part eagle part duck.   The bird list was good today, but it was different than it has been recently.  There were Canada ge...
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April 19, 2026 You'd think I lived in turkey country or some thing. Last night I was wishing Donnie happy birthday and in the middle of the night he texted me from the Atlantic Ocean aboard ship.  I was so jealous.  He and his partner were on a trip for his 40th, so cool.  There's somebody who has worked hard to be where he is with an enormous heart.  Love you, Donnie. Jo took me to breakfast this morning.  Getting out of bed has been difficult, so having a built in reason is good.  Tomorrow I have to claim the Y as my built in reason.  I didn't make it on Friday, I think what is happening is the cortisone's mixing with the blood sugar.  Makes me feel as though I'm poisoned for a bit.  I have to push through it, I believe.   Went up to the rookery for a little bit this afternoon.  It was 41 and raining as opposed to 81 and bright sunshine which it was 3 days ago.  What a bizarre weather week?  I think there must be a ...
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April 18, 2026 Today is my grandmother, Laura Overman's, birthday. (1886-1982). I was due April 1st, but Mom said I said, "April Fools Day" and went back inside.  She thought I was waiting to be born on Grandma's birthday, but the full moon pulled me out first.  Ahhh the lore developed around one's birth. Am I the only kid who engaged in the creation of birth lore with Mom? Happy Birthday, Sophie Cabot Black.  Hope you are having a nice one. I'm so happy the beavers are back in the pond.  The building up of food in the pond begins once again.  Last Fall it wasn't deep enough to merit beaver activity, but this year I have seen a lot.  And there are a lot of turtles, and the red wing black birds are conspicuous, as it says in Merlin, yes, they are conspicuous and LOUD.   The temperatures are going back down.  This week has demonstrated 4 New England seasons.  They are warning snow tomorrow.  It just gives me an excuse to feel comforta...
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April 17, 2026 Kind of a sick day, but ok. Happy Birthday, Donnie Blackwell.   Donnie and I celebrate our birthdays together often, but my being under the weather has  minimized my coordination skills,  Hope your birthday has been fun, Donnie. I got taken out again tonight.  I feel very celebrated.  I feel very attended to by all sorts of people across the country.  Thanks you all.  It made being sick much  easier. I did not make it to the Y this morning.  It felt so wrong, but getting out of bed and moving seemed to be impossible.  I felt totally foggy and unable to focus on moving forward.  My eyes were not focusing entirely and I just needed to close them and lie still, so I did until around 10:45 when I managed to get up and get dressed. Read the paper did the puzzles washed a couple dishes. went back to bed. Got up about 3:15 and headed for the rookery.  The bird count was good and the light was sweet and if I had a d...
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 April 16, 2026 Happy Birthday, Moriah.  Hope your day was warm and wonderful. This day has started strangely for me.  I woke by 4 a.m. and  started remembering all my birthdays.  On the evening of April 15, 1953 my mother was playing a concert in New Haven with the New Music Quartet.  Walter Trampler, Claus Adams, I don't remember who else played with them, but she went into labor with me half way through, finished the concert and then drove to Norwalk to deliver me around 3 a.m. on the 16th.  That was my first birthday.  Now can you imagine the concentration she had?  Her ability to stay on task and finish playing a piece of music, then driving almost an hour to the  hospital and meeting my Dad there and delivering me.  Apparently Dad claimed me as his and immediately called me Lindy instead of Linda.  After 73 years do you think my system has any memory of that night?  My Mom said it went the way births were supposed to...
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  April 15th Much calmer day, today, and I was in less pain today than I have been in since January. The cortisone shot not only lessened the pain in my knee it reduced the pain in my back so I could stand erect.  I walked down my staircase frontwards for the first time in 2 months today.  Now the bad side to the cortisone is that it really messes with my blood sugar, but for today I will take it and besides it's why I stayed in  my own spaces.   T. came to visit and made me smile.   We'll take the no pain and the visit and call it a good day. The rookery is active.  It was 81 there and the air was absolutely still, but the geese were doing their thing and the beaver was saying hello.  I saw no big birds, lots of red winged black birds and the tufted titmouse was loud and clear as usual. The beaver pond has life in it, too.  There is a goose couple and a wood duck couple who have made friends, or are at least neighborly.  And t...
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