We were aware that last night was time change Sunday, but also aware that it wouldn’t affect us until we started on our homeward journey. Woke up this morning to Kim announcing it was 9:20 and weren’t we a couple of lazy butts. I didn’t believe him so he showed me his watch to verify. Dang! Sure enough it’s 9:20. We haven’t pulled that kind of sleeping in since getting back from Hawaii. As I went into the kitchen, I glanced at the wall clock which is a good ol’ fashioned battery-operated clock and it indicated 8:23. Then checked all other relevant timekeepers in our possession and the consensus was that we woke up at 8:20 instead of 9:20. Still might qualify us as being lazy butts, just not quite as lazy in my mind.
Apparently, Kim’s Fitbit jumped ahead on its
own but then was very reluctant to admit the error of its ways. It resisted multiple
attempts to correct the time by syncing it with the Fitbit app on Kim’s phone,
but eventually Kim was able to get it to cooperate. We’ve been coming to Arizona since 2016, and
every year without fail we’ve encountered some kind of time glitch on time change
Sunday.
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The Shamrock 5K is this coming Saturday so
we decided to do a time trial to see what kind of pace we need to achieve in
order to stay under an hour or possibly beat last year’s time of 52:37. Normally when I go for a walk my camera is
slung over my shoulder because I never know when a roadrunner, jack rabbit, or javelina
will pop out of a ditch and I want to be ready.
Of course, that means I walk at a slower pace, constantly keeping an eye
out for photo ops. But not today. Today was about keeping my walk on pace with
the metronome in my head. We kept it
under an hour, beat our Coolidge 5K time but not last year’s Shamrock
time. The stopwatch on my phone logged
it as 56:18.
Today it was easy to say that we’ll continue
doing our morning walks in such a fashion and I can do the slower photo op
walks later in the day. We’ll see how
easy it is to put that into action tomorrow morning.
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Early afternoon we took a little ride to
check out a tip I received last year. A person posting on the Arizona Birding
FB page was kind enough to message me a map of the general location near Marana
that she had seen burrowing owls. I’ve kept that message all this time so we
could try to find it this year.
*They live underground in burrows they’ve dug
themselves or taken over from a prairie dog, ground squirrel, or tortoise.
*They
are small owls with long legs and short tails. The head is rounded and does not
have ear tufts. Adults have bright
yellow eyes.
*Their size varies in length from
7.5-9.8” …weight is about 5.3 oz… wingspan is in the 21.5” range
*Unlike most owls in which the female
is larger than the male, the sexes of the Burrowing Owl are the same size.
*Before laying eggs, they carpet the
entrances to their homes with animal dung, which attracts dung beetles and
other insects that the owls then catch and eat. They may also collect bottle
caps, metal foil, cigarette butts, paper scraps, and other bits of trash at the
entrance, possibly signifying that the burrow is occupied.
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Found a couple of geocaches and several
roadrunners out by the Veterans’ Cemetery in Marana.
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Also
watched a lizard on the tree, running up and down the trunk and jumping between
the bigger branches. I didn’t know that
lizards jumped like that.
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The
desert cam snapped a picture in the wee hours of the morning of a fox enjoying
the goodies we put out last night. Other
than the fox and the javelina last evening, there’s been no more action out
there. A bobcat came strolling by the
Nutt Rd. cam last night and a crow was in there today. Would love to see that deer again, though.
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Days of Lent challenge: Encouraged to listen to today’s sermon entitled
Letting Go: Enemies (Us vs. Them). We listened to the
sermon as we were driving to Marana. Listening
to it together gives us an opportunity to talk it over. Chip did an excellent
job in presenting a very relevant topic in a non-threatening manner. Lots of good points to mull over.
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