Day 2

EATHER ISSUES...

Currently it's pouring rain....the kind you should get in spring when it's soft and heated...the environment is in for a shock...as finally a cold front that has been stalled in the midwest is moving toward us and a stream from the South and west is full of moisture and now it's dumping on us...visibility is pretty much zero from my windows...

My daffodils are up about 4 inches in some parts of the yard and my little peach tree is in pretty much full bloom.  It's been over 70F for the most part of 3 weeks now?  So a fake spring and now the cold returns this will affect the peach crop Im sure.  I traveled thru an orchard last week and the trees had that orange tinge to the limbs they get right before the set the bloom...it's a full 60 days early...Last yr my little tree bloomed and had a few peaches on it, but a late frost killed the fruit...this year it won't even get to set fruit...

That has to be the warmest December on record for us...2021.  I did finally see a flock of Chipping Sparrows....they have been staying north since it's been so warm.  AND speaking of birds moving...my sis the one birds in CO, she has been trying to see Rosy Finch since she moved there and finally yesterday it happened....an entire flock came to her HOUSE and fed on her feeders...She was on cloud 9 to say the least she sent me photos I was soooo jealous..and happy for her at the same time.  There was about 20 of them on the ground in her photo.  

My other sis is down in the dumps as Jimmy did not have a good day yesterday and she is wrestling with a decision one I had to make in April of 2020...my lovely little Casey.  I only had him 6 yrs as I found him wandering down the highway lost....he was an older dog with I found him probably 9 or 10...sis has had Jimmy since 2010 and she thinks he was about 2 when she adopted him... he is the age of my girls...the sisters now we reckon about 14. 

Casey began to have seizures every night about 8 oclock and then he was in that horrible postictal state for hours after...poor little guy I could not bare to see him suffer it was SO hard to make that drive and I nearly turned around several times, but I knew I HAD to do this...I HAD no choice. He was almost blind, he was pretty much deaf, he could barely move around and he was just old and tired and I wanted to ease his suffering and stop his pain. His pain stopped and mine began...as I had 3 solid years of grief.  I don't cry every single day anymore...but I cry at least 3 times a week...my x, my mom, my Casey...and now it seems it will be Jimmy.  

And I do think I will be the first sister to go....I will talk about that more in the upcoming weeks. 

On  a high note I made the perfect biscuit this morning.  I mixed up only ONE...and I gave it my full attention and it was delicious.  I was a glutton for gluten last week...I plan to show more restraint in the upcoming months.