"Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play"

Mrs. coldH20wi built this basket out of dogwood & willow at a basket making workshop she attended with The Kid a few months ago. She didn't quite finish it so she had to harvest, OK, kill some local dogwood to complete her project. We, yes we, use the basket to collect our eggs from the coop each day. & here I thought we were sort of de-animaling so we could get away. Oh well, Mrs. coldH2Owi does sell the eggs & the money is going into a fund for The Babies. & I must say that these are big time eggs, all organic feed since the chickens were chicks, a per egg cost reaching upwards of, oh, I don't know, maybe $5 each. Anyway, here's a pic of the basket. Nice, eh?

As I mentioned above, the basket wasn't quite completed at the workshop & local dogwood had to be used.  Mrs. coldH2Owi brought the killed dogwood into the bathroom & put it into a Home Depot bucket with about 6 inches of water in the bottom.  & as luck would have it, the goofball dogwood began sprouting & flowering.  What a pleasure!  Especially this week, where the temps are going below zero each night.  & although the sun is out each day, I think the dogwood is as helpful as my happy light.

The flowering.

(I know they are out of focus & I won't insult you by claiming it was an artistic decision.  Just now I am too lazy to try again.  Maybe later with the big flash.)

The bucket.

Here are a couple of chickadee photos taken quickly.  I still need to figure out how to get a moving thing to be still enough to be crystal clear.  I've got a lot to learn about image taken.

Chickadee sitting.

Chickadee heading for the lilacs to finish the snack.

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OK Things Are Getting As Tense Around Here As Back In The Day When I'd Hover Over A Green AM Radio Trying To Pull In A Chicago Radio Station To Listen To The Ali Fight, Anyway To Break The Ice A Bit Here Are Some Pics Of My Cat Tab Benoit Watching The Teevee

My cat, Tab, watched a little teevee yesterday. His choice of programs was excellent, Wild China. 

 Here is is interested in some fruit.

Here, a distant cousin.

& here, another cousin goes dashing by.

& here, I don't know, but he's liking it alot.

He's Asking: Watchin' Lookin' At, Fool?

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Outside Minor Storm, Inside Winter Color

Downtown Ashland, Wisco.

Inside xmas cactus flower.  Winter color!

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The Doc Is Unhappy, But Not Me, I'm Still Relatively Vertical & It's A Very Minor Infection -Wait, WTF? This Isn't A Medical Blog Or A Poor Me Blog (Well, Sort Of) Anyway Here's Some Pics

Here are three fun-with-camera photos.  They were, obviously, taken at xmas.  If you really do click 'em to big 'em, you'll see they are pretty cool.  

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This is just about the extent of the "urban" skyline in Ashland, Wisco.  

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Snow stuff.  

Animal track, I think it's a cottontail rabbit.  

A snow landscape.

A Bird, Bird, Bird, A Bird Is A Word.*

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The Daily Doe(s) & A Gray Squirrel 

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*Youthful memory:  I actually skated, hand-in-hand, with a girl, yes, it's true, to this song.  I know it's hard to believe, the girl-part, but it happened in Rhinelander, Wisco, at the Pioneer Park Skating Rink, which was a fast-pitch softball field in the summer. The song, a meditation on, on something was sung by, wait for it, The Trashmen, a band from Minneapolis, MN, so less.  I guess Minneapolis was pretty close to some sort of surfing.  The actual title is Surfin' Bird.

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Groundhog's Day, 2011 -- Sorry Y'[all, There Will Be No Photos Of Woodchucks Chucking Wood Or Just Lazing Around The Local Woodchuck Club

Double sorry y'all. I had a piece of my stomach tissue removed, a plug sized piece that refused to heal from some major surgery almost two years ago. The point of the story is that I developed a bit of a fever yesterday & fell asleep before I could finish the post. In as much as I was feeling pretty awful, I still believe that this post was posted on Groundhog's Day. So there. I'm feeling marginally better today in case you give a rat's ass about the condition I'm in.  Here are some more Pileated Woodpecker photos, so in flight, plus a couple of others.  Click 'em to big 'em.