A Fine Idea

Go here. www.gofundme.com/BigBrotherSaxby
It's the web site Alyce's friend established to help fund another ivf try for Alyce and Ben. And Saxby.

I had never heard of such a thing, but I approve. I like the site, like the idea, like Erica Howard, who is the friend.

The site has a lovely bunch of pictures of that little Larsen family and a narrative about them, their hopes for another child, and why this fund has been established.

People are good. Yes, this is something very good about the times we live in.

Territorialism

Red-shafted flickers, three of them, all male, on my roof, heard before seen, because they were poking through the snow while I read in my living room. So I opened the blind a bit, saw them, all puffed up against winter's cold (our high today:15) pecking--it's what they do, which is the point.

They are beautiful birds, and I love them, in theory, would love them a lot more if they were poking at someone else's house. You may not recall the damage they did to my house several years ago, which caused me to watch for them every year. But I stopped watching because for all of so many years they have not been here. Why now? I wonder.

These three, I shooed them away, and I will shoo them away any time I see them. And I hope to discourage them entirely.

It's my house!