Another sign of spring

There was an egret fishing in the inlet this morning. Specifically, a male egret, with breeding plumage (which is how I know he was male). I watched him for a while, in the light fog. A freight train passed behind, across the river, the herring gulls did what herring gulls do, some geese called nearby, and eventually I decided to leave, in the hopes that he'd decide this would be a good place to nest this year.

On the way in, I passed a neighbor who said something about it being Spring, so I told her about the egret. She was pleased.

Another sign of spring

There was an egret fishing in the inlet this morning. Specifically, a male egret, with breeding plumage (which is how I know he was male). I watched him for a while, in the light fog. A freight train passed behind, across the river, the herring gulls did what herring gulls do, some geese called nearby, and eventually I decided to leave, in the hopes that he'd decide this would be a good place to nest this year.

On the way in, I passed a neighbor who said something about it being Spring, so I told her about the egret. She was pleased.

Grumpy

My general feeling on April Fool's Day is, if it wouldn't be funny on April 3rd, it's not funny on April 1st.

Grumpy

My general feeling on April Fool's Day is, if it wouldn't be funny on April 3rd, it's not funny on April 1st.

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I suspect the most useful thing I've done today involved about three minutes with google and switchboard.com. Second most useful is a tie between calling the unemployment insurance number (a weekly process, not the original registration) and baking apple ginger cakelings.

N.B.: It was useful, and the person on whose behalf I did it didn't ask and was understandably not thinking in those terms; it's just that I could have done additional useful things, given an entire day in which to do them.

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I suspect the most useful thing I've done today involved about three minutes with google and switchboard.com. Second most useful is a tie between calling the unemployment insurance number (a weekly process, not the original registration) and baking apple ginger cakelings.

N.B.: It was useful, and the person on whose behalf I did it didn't ask and was understandably not thinking in those terms; it's just that I could have done additional useful things, given an entire day in which to do them.