It is a beautiful Saturday morning, made even more beautiful with two running facebook chats with Julie   and with Lisa. What a great start to the day. My "other" start to the day was to refill the electric birdbath because a squirrel dumped it over trying to get on it. There isn't much that a squirrel can't either tear up, break, or get into. It reminds me of a terrible thing that we used to say about our young airmen; that you could put four airmen in an empty room with nothing but a steel ball-bearing on the floor and when you opened the door the ball-bearing would be broke into four pieces and no one would have a clue how it happened.

Our Thursday/Friday date went wonderful. We checked in to our hotel room and then we had supper at Max and Erma's and then went to play on the casino boat for a bit. We didn't win anything of course, but lost only what was acceptable to us and probably played enough to earn us another "free room" next month. After the breakfast buffet, we went to our local Cadillac dealer and had the car cleaned up. We get free car washes for life as part of the purchase deal. "Free" of course being a rather relative term considering what we paid for the new car. But, it was a nice evening and morning and we came home after being gone for actually only about eighteen hours but we felt as though we had a mini-vacation.

Today we are just lounging around, still in our sweats, and relaxing. Days like this are a joy. I've watched birds come and go. I filled the feeders yesterday afternoon after we got home. The little Downy Woodpeckers seem the happiest about that because they come and eat the bark butter. So far today I haven't had a bunch of Starlings in here gobbling it all up. The Cardinals kind of come in and out in bunches although they don't "flock" like the starlings do. They just seem to individually arrive at the same time. The Titmouse duo has been several times and of course my little Wrens are always around here somewhere. I do love my Wrens.

There is a gentle breeze blowing this morning. It is just enough to keep the chimes singing to me. It is very peaceful out here this morning, just the kind of morning that can lull a person to snooze here in the sun as it streams through the windows. It is also just the kind of peace that can help unclutter a person's mind to allow proper conversation with God. As I open that conversation, I must begin by giving thanks for such a gloriouus day and offering thanks for my life being filled with blessings; blessings such as three daughters that don't hesitate to sit and talk to their dad; blessings such as Ms. Kate who is off in another room probably making greeting cards to send out to friends and loved ones; and blessings such a wonderful faith family and a host of friends and loved ones. God is so very good, all the time.