OKAY,

ILL CATCH UP NOW...

My Trip went very well the dogs did make it a little more difficult but it worked out just fine.  Had a wonderful visit with the fam, and my sis and I enjoyed several bird walks...and I got a new bird The Salt Marsh Sparrow. So now Im at 461...getting closer to my 500 goal which I had planed to get to in 2018 didn't happen.  

Sadly today I got news that the step son has passed away.  As I mentioned before he had Parkinson's Disease and was in nursing care already about 4 months maybe.  I was not close with him.  He lived with us for about 4 yrs 1978-1982 and did his high school years living here...he was raised by his aunt in England.  After he graduated he got a job in a local store and then a transfer position came open and he took it and moved to VA.  After that we rarely saw him. We did attend his wedding when he got married, and he had 2 children, then when his youngest was about 6 they divorced.  She and I have stayed in touch most of that time she remarried, he had a live in girlfriend who was the one who manipulated him into getting my x to divorce me....so there was some estrangement due to her.  And she also caused the estrangement of his children and his x wife.  So she basically was abusive in that she kept him sequestered from  his family! That is what manipulative people do.  So I was told he will be cremated and no clue on any service. 

I will have my first fire of the season tonight I have it ready to light.  I've had to use the heat a few times already I have not filled my propane tank, not sure I will do that this year...I don't like the "gunk" it left on my windows and that makes me think it's being breathed in by me?  So I don't know it depends on how the weather goes...I was not a good squirrel this year and I have very little wood gathered up...so I guess I will be freezing my ass this winter!

My son started a new job last Wednesday so I hope this one works out...he has had little to say about it up to now...but I will get a discount on birdseed!!Yippie!