I remember that as the title of a song by Leonard Cohen, I think, recorded by Judy Collins. However, today I saw this creature perched on the wires in front of my stepmother’s house. I could not resist the chance to take the picture,

Hopefully it will enlarge for you. I think it’s an Eastern towhee.

This little gem was in my cloud. Thought I would share it. It was taken last Spring at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden here in Richmond.

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Nothing messes my head up like an afternoon of TV. The commercials for everything from SUV’s to jewelry to beer get me wondering how I can be so happy when I have no desire to purchase any of this schlock.

Weird 

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Hopefully this link will take you to Last Post. It is my tribute to the brave men of the Australian And New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), who fought in the ill-fated campaign on the Gallipoli Peninsula in The Great War (World War I).  

The dryer vent cleaning guy came today. He pulled some of the accumulated lint out of the exhaust port. Kind of cool. The exhaust port is on the roof.

And I went swimming. 

I don’t think I’m much of a sunbeam for Jesus today.

“Tomorrow is another day,”- Scarlett O’Hara.

I’m sitting at the computer naked. Quite frankly it’s a tad warm, 80 degrees F outside. I need to turn on the AC, I guess.  Or not.  I hit  a workout goal today: to exercise 50 times in 70 days for the sake of consistency.  Every negative thought I could think of ran through my brain.  “Nausea will make you want to stop swimming.  “You’ll get those calf cramps.”   “They will close the pool because of a thunderstorm.” .

But I persevered. I stopped after 100 meters, rested a bit, restarted the stopwatch, then swam another 2050 meters.  I took my shower, headed home.

OK the naked part. Here’s the simple answer.  It feels good.

I can only call yesterday The Day Of The Backache.  It never seemed to go away. It wasn’t all that painful, but it was persistent. And I was tired . I took a morning nap, an afternoon nap and was in bed fairly early. I woke up around 3, hurting, and finally took 2 Extra-Strength Tylenol. I got some sleep but a day of pain wore me out for today.

Today Mrs CorC? is driving to Fredericksburg  for lunch with her brother and sister-in-law. It would entail about five hours of riding and sitting and is just too much for me. It was her suggestion that I stay home. I offered no argument, because, as much as I like her family, I knew I wasn’t up for the experience, err, ordeal.

So I’m home, skipping Mass, unless I go at 4:30 or 5:00. I plan to swim in a short. I want to read posts from the bloggers I follow, and have a spot of lunch.  I will write more later.

It is Sunday. The warm weather has gone. It feels like Winter again. That is fine by me.

I was up and down last night, but most of the night I slept soundly. Mrs CorC? has some sort of cold/allergy issue going on, so she coughed a lot and slept fitfully. I will tell her to stay home, rest, and skip Mass.

I’ve resumed my usual fitness activities, with a walk or a swim most every day. The tightness in my legs has gone, so PT was a success.

I want to write more and will later. I just needed to check in.

 I will write more later.