- 1st: Filled main bird feeder with fruit/nut seed blend and cracked corn. Put out three suet cakes: blueberry, apple, and peanut. Bought new hummingbird feeder. Pretzel pizza! Wintry mix of precipitation: rain mixed with snow/sleet.
- 2nd: 2 pairs of evening grosbeaks! Snow, occasionally mixed with rain. Schools on 2-hour delay.
- 3rd: Brain Freeze Day. Baltimore orioles at backyard feeder (2)! Repeat of yesterday: about one inch of wet snow in the morning, melting, but ongoing snow flurries. More peeks of sunshine today, though. Heavy afternoon snow giving way to rain showers. Accumulated snow melting. Feeling hurt by son's FB post about people he turns to when life is falling apart.
- 4th: Rain with intermittent sun. RB Grosbeaks are back! Red fox in the backyard.
- 5th: Ruby-throated hummingbird & eastern gray squirrels! Cleaned camper. Sheep drinking from water bowl?!
- 6th: Hooded warbler! Green heron! Frustration! Orange to red to aqua hummingbird feeder swap.
- 7th: It wasn't PW, after all! 3 Lesser Yellowlegs at the farm pond.
- 8th: Nearly all suet cakes are gone, except for a small piece of the apple one. Advanced Skywarn training completed, plus MetEd Skywarn training. Cleaned out fridge.
- 9th: New PW mug from Gary!
- 10th: A pine siskin?! Somewhat productive day. Nature journal progress. Bits of housework done.
- 11th: Red fox. Again. Didn't expect to be able to go to the farm pond this evening, but it was nice. Feeling anxious.
- 12th: Psycho sheep acting lethargic. Worried. Could be worms causing anemia.
- 13th: Checked inner eyelids. Pink. Sheep okay. Very thankful! Red double begonia and beautiful, meaningful card from son (and his girlfriend!) for Mother's Day.
- 14th: Hot pink impatiens (large flowers) from church and bouquet of pink-tinged white chrysanthemums from niece's boyfriend's sister for Mother's Day.
- 15th: Tired of waking up with anxiety. Evening headache. Evening hair cut. B snipped the top of my ear with scissors while cutting my hair. Anxiety back at bedtime.
- 16th: Tooth/jaw pain. Anxiety. Bad mood.
- 17th: Still irritable. Still anxious. Washed dishes and tidied up around sink/countertop area.
- 18th: Woke up feeling very anxious again. Trying to focus on nature. Worried about other things. Frustrated. Disappointed. Very emotional.
- 19th: Cleaned camper.
- 20th: Rainy, dreary. Bored, sleepy. The morning was nice, though!
- 21st: Early start. Irritable after morning barn work. Shaken by in-laws' knick-knacks being boxed up for yard sale. Spent $30 getting a few favorites and 50th/60th anniversary items. No one is sure what happened to the angel trio musical figurine. Need to unwind now. Will have to wait to buy more wild bird food and suet, but it's worth it.
- 22nd: I'm afraid to ask what else they've gotten rid of (or are getting rid of) now. Farm pond evening. Cool barn swallow pic. Mystery bird -- (green heron? great blue heron?)
- 23rd: Herd work. Anxiety over upcoming "family" yard sale.
- 24th: Side pain, diarrhea, vomiting. Clinic. Pond. Avoid the yard sale.
- 25th: Feeling better. Still avoiding the yard sale. Why is it all over FB?! Filled the feeder, and the birds wiped it out in the same day! Advanced Skywarn Radar webinar.
- 26th: One more day of avoiding the yard sale. Is it over today? Cleaned camper.
- 27th: Happy 23rd anniversary! Yard sale relief! Strawberry rhubarb pie, chocolate ice cream, sour cream and onion chips, sweet tea. Ordered 6 hoagies for June 8th, and son ordered 2.
- 28th: Watered plants.
- 29th: Memorial Day "picnic" buffet next door
- 30th: Made $250 (50%) payment toward purchase of sheep. Remaining half to be paid at end of June.
- 31st: Delivered tractor motor to Clarksburg for repairs. Passed up two craft stores and one of my favorite restaurants! Renewed van tags. Lunch at H in Kingwood.
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