The robins are flocking.  In my yard now there are dozens of them.  Yesterday
and today I've also seen red-wing blackbirds, blue jays, and flickers in the front
of my house.  Oh and my cardinals...the ones that so sneakily steal the cat
food from off the deck.  They are very, very careful to check for Debut before they
flit in and out.

Cousin Mary fractured her back in two places last evening.  She had been down
to visit Uncle Jim, and when she got home, she slipped walking up the hill to
her house.  Uncle Jim took her to the ER.  Poor girl!  She is going to hate
sitting around when the garden needs planting.

Last weekend Bill and family were down and we had some exciting times.
It rained all day on Saturday...so the kids were pretty much stuck inside.  By late
afternoon, they were a tad bit stir crazy.  My lovely daughter-in-laws, Natalie
& Stacey were cooking, I was in the computer room texting directions to a
lady, and the guys were all in the living room talking.

The kids, meanwhile, were amusing themselves.  Boy howdy were they amusing
themselves.  They were spinning themselves around on one of the computer
chairs.  We heard a crash and loud cries and went running.  Somehow Peeta
got hit in the forehead and it popped out a foot.  It really did seem like it was
that big of a goose egg.  Natalie and Joel hopped in Joel's truck to try to get to
the ER, but it had been raining so hard that we were totally flooded in.  After
they came back and we re-evaluated, we could tell that he was really fine, just
gargoyle looking.  Poor baby.

Besides that, Papa has had the flu, but what a strange case.  He couldn't stay in
for long.  When Kent had the flu, he couldn't leave the bed for days.  We had a
quiet little birthday party for Tandy and Jim on Friday.  The kids were gone to
Georgia because Natalie's Grandma Gagliardi died and they were down for the
funeral and to visit with their Georgia family.  I really liked Grandma Gagliardi.
She was a home economics teacher and a lovely person.

The down-daffy-dils are up.  What a ray of sunshine on a gloomy day they are.
I have three on my table that the grandkids picked for me yesterday.