Like Riding a Bike

I have been without a lap top since last December.  It was by choice and I really thought I could do everything I wanted on a tablet and my phone.  Apparently not with the ease of the laptop and typing with two hands as I learned in high school.  Yay for me I loved typing and still can hit the keys and fly through this blog.  Shame on me for struggling so long, that just shows how stubborn, bull headed or defiant I am.  That one finger or two finger key hit just isn't for me.  I had several blogs started and just couldn't finish them.  It was so time consuming and down right eating my nerves away.  For a couple months I have been looking and searching for a laptop that fit my needs and didn't feel like I was over spending my fun money.  This Acer fit the bill, but the real "seal the deal" was.....how do  all ten fingers fit on the keys to make it enjoyable and fast.  The fingers needed to be able to keep up with my mind.....always speeding along.  I went to Olean this morning, downed the mask and let the fingers be the final yay or nay.  Like riding a bike, once you learn you don't forget,same with the keyboard!  You know the Acer keyboard fit just fine because here I am with kazillions of stories, thoughts and memories to tell.  I have been reading past blogs and what I read on the most part I liked.  It is my own personal diary on my life and a few others.  Eventually I will print them all and "pass them on" to my children and grandchildren.  Why?  Do I really think that they are just waiting to read it all?  Not really but hoping somewhere through the years it will be important to read about what life was like from 1949 to the day it ends.  So far so good, 71 in a few weeks and still happy, healthy and going strong.  Maybe even with a song in my heart and a whole lot of love.

This will be more like an introductory of what has been going on since last November, just a little catch up.  We are going to be Great Grandparents.  The little girl will be born around my birthday the end of July.  Gage and Sammy Bryant live in Illinois.  With this crazy covid 19 it may be a while before we make the trip and get a little cuddling in.  I wish it could be sooner than later but she needs protected at all costs so we will be happy with pictures and face time.  In September Connor and Avery Bryant will have a baby boy.  Same, it will be pictures and face time. Would do nothing to get this little boy sick, so distance it will be.  Bart and Deb will be grandparents.  What an exciting time for this family!

The garden is in and by the looks the corn will be well over knee high by the 4th of July.  All farmers from years passed were happy to see it knee high by the 4th.  They knew it would be eared out and ready to harvest before the fall frosts hit.  As crazy as the weather has been the lush green hills and valleys are thriving.  So far a good year for the garden but you know that could change in a second.  Rain, wind, hail, lack of rain, little sunshine, bugs, deer, bear!  You name it,  that garden and success depends on so many things.

The Baltimore and Orchard Orioles have been plentiful this season.  They are eating about 10 ounces of grape jelly everyday.  The Rose Breasted Grossbeaks and little English Wrens are also helping eat with the jelly.  A 20 ounce jar every other day.  Then the oranges but they prefer the jelly.  Not so much work, just grab, eat, grab and go back to the nest.  We have around 6 males B. Orioles and 2 Orchard males.  How many for sure who knows!  I just know how many are waiting on the rope swing or porch rail to eat.  We have two feeding stations and both have waiting birds. No, they are not social distancing.  They even get a little feud going on if they get impatient.  This is our most enjoyed times of the day, breakfast and supper on the porch with a view and birds to entertain us and give us some beautiful listening music.  I don't know one bird call from another but the guy I live with..........he does so I do the google thing and say to him, what bird is that?

The Orioles, free loaders !

Enjoy your day, take time to be in the great outdoors, rest, close your eyes and think how lucky we are to live in our great Oswayo Valley.  We have so little to do here but so much to enjoy, and remember "Pass it On" .  The best things that can be given or received are free.