Anne's Blog

Sunday, I walked home from work which is not that unusual. I do it often. I was walking on the West side of the Trafficway and I was about by my friend, Ellen's, apartment on my left. The grocery store was coming up on my right across the busy street.  In my peripheral vision as I approached the grocery store area across the street to my right, I saw an interesting somewhat out-of-place bird fly out towards the median and alight on top of street light. It came flying out it seemed from behind the back of the grocery store. I stopped and really looked at it. It was a red-tailed hawk and it was looking at something in the distance and to the South. Perhaps, it had spied a late lunch in the distance. The hawk turned it's head Westward briefly and I could see clearly it's imperious, dangerous-beak profile.  Turning back to face South, it jumped lightly in a forward, vertical motion as it's powerful wings lifted it into the air. It flew South directly along the median. Ener...

     Depending upon how you look at it, either a lot has happened recently or not much. It's a lot from the standpoint that both things are kind of important and, not much, from the standpoint that these things happen to many people and everyone respectively. I had a pet die and I had a birthday.  Simon is gone. He died on August 16th. On August 22nd, I turned 56. Last year, Jon remembered it was my birthday. I was surprised but, maybe, I shouldn't have been. He is an intelligent man with a good memory.  That was last year.       I am not the only person to have a pet die and everyone alive has a yearly birthday whether it is celebrated or not. It was a nice night on August 22nd so Nathaniel and I took Yoshi over to McCoys and sat on the patio for dinner. We did that for his birthday in April when it was equally nice outside. In April, we sat at the bar and Nathaniel shared his lamb burger with Yoshi. This time, we sat at a table on the ...