Community Building Tip: Volunteer

For my current set of tips, I'm using the list "101 Small Ways You Can Improve Your City.

64. Volunteer. There are dozens of groups in your neighborhood doing their part to make your city a better place. Spend a few hours pitching in.

Birdfeeding

Today is partly sunny and mild.

I fed the birds.  Earlier I saw a house finch, a small flock of doves, and a flock of grackles.  When I went out to feed them, I heard a downy woodpecker drumming and managed to spot it too.  :D

I took leaves off the daffodil garden and hauled 2 trolleys of them to put under the beech tree.  That bed is almost done, and next I'll clear the tulip bed beside it.

Crocus are blooming, yellow under the contorta willow and lavender under Home Base.  I saw those yesterday.

Computer Update

The new computer arrived today. 

We have the files from my current computer saved to the external drive for transfer, the ones that will copy.  There were, inevitably, a few errors, some of which might still be salvageable. 

I'm working on notes for the half-price sale currently.