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I’ve been taking a semi-vacation from Spanish. I’ve been streaming videos with English, not Spanish, subtitles, but I still try spend a few minutes each day doing a vocabulary exercise on Duolingo. For instance:

According to Duolingo, by yesterday I had spent 700 days doing something with it since May 6, 2023. I occasionally forget but when I do I try to make it up the next day. It’s only a few minutes a day, but I’m reviewing the words I know and am gradually adding a few more.

I’m not concerned about how little I’m learning — it makes me feel good just to stick with it. Hurray for hobbies!

April 21, 2025

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I hope you all have a wonderful day.

April 20, 2025

This was the weather forecast yesterday:

We’re not complaining at all. It means the fire season might start later. Hopefully we won’t get a fire like the 2022 one — that started on April 22nd.

6:47 PM, April 22, 2022

No, we would much rather have cool temperatures and the chance of a little moisture.

April 19, 2025

The mother has a belly full of fish to bring back to feed her hungry chicks.

That had a happy ending!

April 18, 2025

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For Andy, when we were foolish enough to have an outside garden up on the land, it was gophers and ground squirrels. We were happy to share, but they wanted everything. One cheeky ground squirrel would chatter at us if we spent too long in his garden. Eventually he would rush in and start eating in a part of the garden away from us. Then there was the day that we were looking at the garden from outside of it and we saw a plant get sucked into the ground before our very eyes. Andy grabbed a stake and rushed into kill that blasted critter doing it.

He didn’t. It was hopeless, and we had to give up the idea of an outside garden. That’s why we have our greenhouse.

April 16, 2025

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April 14, 2025

about crows.

April 13, 2025

This song has been playing in my mind lately.

It makes me happy and puts a bounce in my step.

April 12, 2025