The Periphery of the Mind

Lot's of stuff....

Bird count is now seven. Yes, seven. We started with Tweety, the yellow parakeet. Then we added Romeo & Juliet, a mating pair of yellow canaries. Add on Casanova and later Esmerelda, a reddish mating pair of canaries. Then R&J had a chick, and he (I'm assuming it's a boy at this point) was out and hoping around his cage this weekend. We're calling him Prospero. Friday night Maryanne picked up a parakeet from her mother, a blue male named "Bleu" (as in Cordon Bleu), to try and tame him up a bit. Whereas Tweety is pretty easy going and a chatterbox, Bleu is just noisy and aggressive. But he's also just a parakeet with a tiny beak. Which means when he bites, it's like a little itch or something. Nothing like Charlie could do.

We borrowed a power washer from Martin and got the North side of the house washed down real nice, and cleaned the patio a bit. The patio still needs some weeding, and some of the bricks have gaps that need to be filled with dirt, but it looks pretty good. In the process of cleaning though, we ruined one of our exterior light fixtures. For some reason there was a major gap in the construction of it that let in water from the washing. Lots of popping and sparking and flaming. Still, the replacement was fairly quick and easy, and just cost us $20.

We also got to fixing the fence. Stormy and termites worked in tandem to ruin one of the posts. So I got to digging and discovered the old post was mortared into the foundation. It looked like they poured the concrete for post and house at the same time. I'll have to extend the fence a bit, but the new post is concreted into place now. Hopefully, by the time it too has rotted away, we'll have moved.

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