from the WTF Department and other miscellaneous goings on

Well, that was fun. Last week I was accused by my neighbor, the one of container fame, of taking her tomato cages, her concrete blocks, and her bricks. I told her she was mistaken and the cages, bricks, and mortar blocks she saw on my property were mine.

She also complained about me writing about her and her family. I have only referred to her as 'my neighbor' the one or two times I've mentioned her and have never mentioned her family. I didn't argue with her, just said OK, as I was a little dumbfounded and I just wanted to go back to what I was doing. I stormed around here for the next two days though working it out of my system.

Very foggy this morning and I'm happy to see the forecast has been revised to a light freeze instead of a hard freeze when the front comes barreling in tomorrow so I shouldn't have to cover anything. 

Walking the dog yesterday I noticed that not only is the maple tree blooming but the sycamores at the other end of the street are also coming out. And there was a big flock of birds in the hackberry in my other neighbor's yard and the birds were flitting back and forth from it to the small tree full of red berries that they were devouring. 

Being underneath I could only see their yellowish undersides but one or two glimpses make me think they were cedar waxwings as I caught sight of a crest or two and I know they migrate through here as I've seen them before. I've been trying to get a picture of the goldfinches when they visit the bird feeder but they are too shy and too fast. Just now the big bird feeder is being mobbed by sparrows and the cardinals and chickadees have been coming to the teacup. I hear the titmice in the trees but don't see them.

I never made it to yoga Wednesday evening as early in the day there was a fatality accident on the northbound lanes of 59 between here and El Campo that completely blocked the freeway when a car going south bound crossed the median and hit or got hit by an 18 wheeler. 

image via Wharton County Office Of Emergency Management's FB page

By mid-afternoon both sides of 59 were completely closed and traffic was backed up 24 miles according to my neighbor Leonard and the lanes weren't cleared until after class time.

Well, I know I've said this every day this week so far but today I am going to work with the modeling glass some more. I have a new batch of samples I want to make plus two more feathers and a hibiscus flower I want to try, now that it's warmed up and my blood is moving faster than sludge.