Feb 28 - Forgot to hit post yesterday

Thought I posted yesterday's blog until I looked at it tonight. Oops. Guess I forgot to hit publish and must have hit save instead.

Today was a busy day getting ready for my new bed. Rearranged my bedroom three times before I was satisfied with what it will be like with the bed in there. Good think a queen size bed was ordered or there would have been any room in there for some of Bobbi's things.

My nephew and great niece came over today for a visit. Mustn't have the grandma look anymore and caused my great niece to cry. Not how I wanted to start the day with her. They were here for awhile. She loved Sparky but you can tell she is a fan of cats. Bobbi wouldn't come out but came within her reach. The light switch in my bedroom is on a pull and she loved to pull the light turning it on and off many times, saying "whee" most of the time. Then I held her so she could go on my glider. She loves to swing and this the next best thing. By the time they left, both my sister and I got hugs and wave to. How special is that

Only saw one eagle today in my travels. The river isn't open yet but once it opens, there will be a lot here.

Today's earrings

Feb 27 Flying, flying time, flying squirrels.

On my 40th birthday and again on my 50th birthday, I had the opportunity to fly a puddle jumper (with an instructor). It was great. Those two times were the first times I had been on an airplane. That is, other than our local park which had an airplane in it that we used to climb on all of the time when our parents weren't around. As much as I enjoy train rides, I love flying and especially the takeoff. Such a mass of weight lifting off the ground like that makes my imagination run at what else is out there that we are going to learn to do.

Flying time is this past year. A year ago Feb 19 is when I started the blog in memory of Donna. Even though it looked like there were a 1,000 pair of earrings, there weren't that many (kind of like the fish that got away). Sill I have quite a few to wear and a number of pins add to the blog. After that, I'm going to continue the blog with my own earrings. Lately, I've been looking at earrings and slapping my fingers so that I don't buy them. Side note: when I was really young and touched something I wasn't supposed to touch (highly breakable items), my mom would slap my hand. She said that I would touch the item again and then slap my own hand. Then I didn't touch it again. Think my hands should have been slapped more.

Probably have told you before about the flying squirrels on my cousin's farm. It was so cool to see them fly, even though they really didn't fly. It's been years since I've seen a flying squirrel, probably over 50 years ago. Wonder if they still exist in Minnesota. One of the things I did see a lot of as a kid was pileated woodpeckers. Every once in a while, you can see one in my hometown but it's a very rare occasion. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/pileated_woodpecker/id

This brings me to today's earrings, angels. Well, they fly too.