springy, warm, and an unexpected gift

Today is as still as Wednesday was windy, not even a tiny breeze nor tinkle from a wind chime.

I am overwhelmed. Thursdays are my fullest busiest day of the week and I have no time for online shenanigans. This morning it seems every blog I read posted yesterday and my inbox has about 30 new emails. 

The little wren is pissed. She has added a lot to her nest in the light fixture over the past four days. When I got home from SHARE yesterday she was in the house, in the fixture, and flew out the open back door when I came in the garage door. This morning, she is perched just outside the open back door scolding me sitting at my desk and Cat laying on the big table. When I went in the kitchen to fix breakfast she flew in and perched on the desk lamp 

and when I was sitting at the dining room table where I have a line of sight to the fixture, she was in there rustling around rearranging the leaves of her nest. When she flew out I got up and closed the door. It won’t do for her to actually lay eggs so I’m going to have to keep the door closed from now on. Or else get a screen door.

So Thursdays…SHARE and we were busy but not overwhelmed, probably just over 30 food orders, mostly bigger ones. I forgot to ask but that’s about how many when it’s steady and I can keep up with refilling the baskets (A, B, C, D, E according to the size of the family) so that all the guys have to do is pull the appropriate basket(s) off the shelf when a food order comes in to which they add all kinds of other stuff from their section and from whatever produce donations came in that morning. 

Yesterday after SHARE I took the accumulated cardboard from the day to the recycling container, on the way home stopped by to see my friend who is battling cancer and bring her whatever produce or milk that is left over (she and her husband have custody of three of their grandchildren), fixed lunch, after lunch took about a 30 minute nap, walked the dog, fed the cats, hung out with Paisleigh for another half hour, and then hightailed it to yoga. When class ended, Susan came over and said don’t rush off, Bruce has something for you. As we were leaving I walked to the truck with Bruce, he reached in and handed me this

with this lovely inscription. 

I show off pictures of whatever art thing I’m working on with them and Stephanie and I guess Bruce really liked the birds I did on the notecards and so he gifted me this book. So now, I need, want, to do a little painting of one of the birds in the book for him as a thank you. 

Walking the yard after breakfast I was met with two surprises, the first amaryllis and the first iris.

All plans to work in the yard today have evaporated because I have a primary care office visit this afternoon which I have to leave for soon. And now I’m back and all is well and I learned I have aged out of mammograms and poop tests/colonoscopies unless I’m have actual problems or if I just want to get my boobs squished and poop in a jar for old times sake.

I doubt I’ll be able to catch up on all the posts I have missed yesterday and today because tomorrow y’all will have posted again so I'll just sally forth into the future.