Good News!

My computer is under warranty! Yippee!

A technician will come to the house to fix it. Whew!

Soon I'll be back online...really back... on my own computer.

Checking e-mail on my Droid but I'm not too good at texting.

Matter of fact I'm a bit s-l-0-w!

My fingers aren't too big and I have trouble hitting the right key. How do people with bigger hands do it? Amazes me!

Guess I'm more of a PC person.

"Delicious Autumn"

"Delicious autumn!

My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird

I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

George Eliot

This may be my last blog for a while. My computer has died :( and I'm using Mike's.

Can't get my pictures, etc. so until mine is fixed you may not see any new blogs.

Not unless I'm chomping at the bits to share something! :)

It's time...

for me; maybe not for others but the Christmas music has begun at the Woods household. Began playing it Sunday morning and it's now in our cars and plays on my very old, faithful Bose!

We have more Christmas CDs than any other kind of music and enjoy it all!

Christmas music...good Christmas music just does something to me. Not really into "Santa Baby" or things quite like that but all the other-Transiberian Orchestra, Perry and Bing, Kenny G, Manneheim, the traditional songs, hey,

I can even go with Alvin and the Chipmunks! Oh yeah, Charlie Brown Christmas too!

Christmas music is ...well, timeless for me! October through December just satisfies the Christmas music thirst in me!

(not sure that Mike is into it quite like me, but "bless his heart" he tolerates it, even in his car!)

Bliss...

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me

fluttering from the autumn tree..."

Emily Bronte

Saving my fine-feathered friend!

Those of you who know me, know I love my birds! I feed them; make sure they have water, etc.

I try to keep the squirrels away so they won't eat all the seed.

Mike has often said that I would feed the birds before I fed us and I would tell him that this is something God wants me to do. I am their care-taker!

Yesterday afternoon while sitting on the porch I noticed a bird fluttering around the birdfeeder but at the middle of the double shepherd's hook. I realized it was some how stuck.

I grabbed a pair of gardening gloves and ran out. The poor thing had its claw stuck and it was bleeding. I spoke softly to her, a female Goldfinch and on the second try I freed her.

She flew away! And of course I prayed that she would heal quickly.

Actually this bird-rescue thing "runs" in our family! Mike has rescued 2 Hummingbirds. One was caught up under our deck umbrella and the cat was trying to get at it and another got up under the porch ceiling and became disoriented. Mike had to climbed up and gently take him in his hand and then he opened his hand and the bird flew away.

I so enjoy watching our feathered friends! It's always such a treat! Just makes you smile!

October "enjoyments"

reading by last night's fire... wearing tights with my skirt and sweater... chilly breeze blowing my hair as we were quickly trying to enter the diner for Sunday lunch...sitting close to Mike on the porch to keep warm...looking out the window before naptime, observing golden sunlight filtering through changing trees...wearing a long sleeved tee... warm fuzzy socks...and yes, reading by the fire. I may make a fire this morning and have my quiet time in the livingroom.

What a lovely way to begin this beautiful October day at 7:35 am!

One more thing...thinking about Mr. Bingley who now fits in a coffee mug! Will get to visit him in a few weeks!

Here's Mr. Bingley!!!!!

I will get him the first part of November!

Thank you God and Mike and Anita!