End of the week for you Monday to Friday people. TGIF and all that jazz. It appears we are going to have a nice weekend again; although certainly not the 65 degrees we had last weekend. I was just over talking to neighbor Dan and he said we have another Polor Vortex headed this way that is going to plummet temperatures again all the way to Florida. Watch out citrus growers. The weather guys said we may have some snow with this but it should be scattered and light. Roller coaster weather is so much fun.

I had a great start to my morning. I brought my coffee out to the sunporch and there was a big Pilated Woodpecker out there eating at the feeders. It stuck around for a bit, then flew off, and then returned again for a while before flying away. I managed to get a couple of pictures of it to post to Facebook and share. I'll need to fill the bark butter paste feeders again because Mr. Pilated finished off anything that was left in them. And I've had several other woodpeckers come in looking for it.  At the moment I have mockingbirds, woodpeckers, and grackles out there so it has been a "big beak" morning in the back yard. It is funny watching the grackles because there is a flock of maybe fifteen or twenty of them on the ground under one of the sunflower feeders. They are digging through the stuff on the ground  and flipping it around. It looks like an aviary food fight going on and they toss the stuff around and it lands on other grackles.

Julie and Auggie are coming over in a couple of hours to stem the weekend. Jim won't be coming as he has orientation at Lowe's tomorow. It will be a part time job which is fine since he already has a full time job. Her Harry Potter Book Event went extremely well last night. She said they had around two hundred people attend and Facebook is full of compliments about it. I'm really glad it went well for her because she worked her tail off to make it happen as did all of her staff.

We took Ms. Kate to our eye doctor's office yesterday to talk about getting her new glasses. She has so much trouble lining up her glasses when she is at the computer, so she ends up holding her head differently and that causes her to have a sore neck and headache. I think they came to a decision that what she really needs is glasses just for use at the computer. So, we are waiting on a call from them this morning to see what they can do for sure. If she does end up with a single vision lens, it will be a lot cheaper than the no-line bifocals that we are both wearing.

That about does it for me today. While I was sitting here a huge wave of blackbirds came a joined the fifteen or twenty that were here. They really cleaned up the residual seed stuff that was on the ground and made a good hit on the feeders too. Now, they are totally gone again. See why I love being out here. God just sends a wealth of blessings for my pleasure and enjoyment. Have a great Friday!