Kim was able to image last night. When we’re in Arizona, his first target is always the Orion Nebula. The night sky in Charlevoix isn’t clear like it is in Arizona. Proximity to Lake Michigan is the culprit behind the clouds. So it’s good to start on something he knows and have it serve as a refresher for how to do everything that needs doing for a quality outcome.
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Cardinal
at the feeder today! Saw it as I was about to open the door…I think I may have
squealed with excitement before I quickly grabbed my camera to document the
occasion. 😎 The hummingbirds have also been coming to our
feeders. Saw one early this morning before our site was fully in the sun. I thought these little guys go into torpor
overnight and usually don’t emerge until the day has warmed. It was definitely not warm out there this
morning so either this one didn’t get the memo about torpor or it’s a rebel and
refuses to conform.
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Went down to change out the camera on Nutt
Rd. The other one seems stuck in a time
warp. It was last used at Kim’s deer
blind in the U.P. and it doesn’t want to move off that point in time or acknowledge
that it’s currently in Arizona. Of
course, we didn’t realize that until we’d driven away from it yesterday. So, Kim
changed it with a camera that is fully in the present; already took picture of
me standing in front of it and then another of me walking away. So now,
hopefully, we’ll see some javelina action.
And we have some work to do with the one stuck in November.
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What I thought was a dead calf laying by the
culvert down the road is, in fact, not a calf at all. I noticed the half-eaten
carcass the first day I was out walking and since I don’t do dead things, I’ve
kept to the other side of the road with my eyes averted while walking. Today we
encountered George Aros on horseback, and he asked if we had seen the mountain
lion and pointed to where the dead calf was. Wait, what?! That’s not a calf? It’s a mountain lion? George assured us it was and said that he’s
lived here for years and never saw or heard of a lion in the area. But there was no mistaking the paw…the big
cat-like paw. He said that wherever and however
the animal met its demise, the head was cut off and the body dumped. Yuck! Apparently, George doesn’t shy away from dead
things like I do. But seriously,
there’s mountain lions around here?😟
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Signed
up for the Coolidge Days 5K Walk/Run…we, of course, will be walking or limping,
as the case may be now. We walked down
to Nutt Rd today which is a roundtrip walk of just over 3 miles or the equivalent
of a 5K. It’s good training. On the way back to camp, I fell on the road. That’s
not good training. L
Scraped up my leg but that was the extent of my injuries; everything felt fine
or so I thought until I took a short nap this afternoon. Woke up, stretched and
that’s when my right foot yelled at me. Took me a minute to realize that it had
to be from the fall. Don’t know exactly
what I did to my right foot since it was my left foot that stepped on a rock,
twisted and sent me flying downward but the right is not happy with me. So last
year, our goal was to walk it in under an hour…certainly not banking on that
tomorrow. Will massage it, stretch it
and put Icy Hot on it prior to walking and hope for the best.
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At the IGA the other day, I asked two young
cashiers what was being built outside of town and pointed in the direction of
the new structure going up. They looked
at each other in surprise and one said, “There’s something being built?” They didn’t have a clue what I was talking
about.
At the IGA today, I asked another cashier about the big structure being built outside of town. He said that he’d heard, which probably puts this in the rumor column, that it was going to be a drywall manufacturing plant. But at least he knew what I was asking about and agreed on my description of its size.
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The traveling sheep are back! Saw a herd of ‘em
cleaning up a cotton field near us which I expect is not their normal home. And
my first thought was “Sheep eat cotton? That must make their mouths dry.” Then I
saw another herd on the way to Coolidge. Don’t know if they’re from the same
herd or there are now two separate herds.
Just another thing I look forward to seeing when we’re out here.
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Took my first Arizona bike ride today to
Coolidge. Left a little late in the day so I did my errands and just headed
back. Felt good to be on the bike even though it was a less than ideal
temperature…but I have gloves and jackets in my saddle bags and I’m not afraid
to use ‘em! The temperature is supposed to be solidly in the 70s for the next
week which is just about the perfect temperature to ride. Looking forward to
that.
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40 Days of
Lent challenge: Send an unexpected
test or letter to someone today. This one I did inadvertently. Earlier in
the day, I spontaneously sent a message to someone showing them something I
found that I thought they might like to see. Then later when I remembered that
I still had the challenge hanging out there and started thinking about who I
could text, it hit me that’d I’d already done it without the challenge being
the reason for doing it. 😊
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