Monday Update 5-3-21

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Today's Smoothie
Birdfeeding
Community Building Tip: Lunch
Leaky Pipeline Bingo Card 5-1-21
Poetry Fishbowl Report for April 20, 2021
Unsold Poems for the April 20, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl
Bingo
Birdfeeding
Category 6 Isn't Enough (98 comments)
Coping Skills: Walk
Birdfeeding
Birdfeeding
Six Bluejays


Poetry in Microfunding:

There are two open epics at present.

"The Trail of Hope" opened and closed quickly, so you can read that in full.  After the End, some Cherokee people walk from Oklahoma to Tenneessee.

"The Hobbomak" launches the Bear Tunnels series.  Emma and Jesse explore the images on the walls.

"A Celebration and a Consolation" belongs to Polychrome Heroics. Keira comforts her mother after the breakup.


The weather has been mostly mild here. It rained yesterday. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large flock of mourning doves (including courtship behavior), a large flock of grackles, a flock of sparrows, a flock of 6 bluejays, a few robins, several house finches who are draining the thistle sock, a pair of cardinals, a pair of brown thrashers, and a squirrel. While out hiking we saw a white-breasted nuthatch, heard a barred owl, and saw a probable bobcat track.  Currently blooming: daffodils, blue grape hyacinths, violets, tulips, lilacs, yellow bellflower, white trillium, redbud trees, purple allium, white allium, lily of the valley, butterfly weed.

Birdfeeding

Today is partly sunny, mild, and breezy.  The grass is still wet but it's not raining anymore.

I fed the birds.  I've seen bluejays, doves, robins, and house finches.

I took pictures of flowers in my yard. 

Also, my partner Doug spoke with someone who confirmed the presence of bobcats in the area; the guy owns a large piece of riverbottom land for hunting and has plentiful bobcats there, likely on the same river system as the reserve.  :D

EDIT 5/3/21 -- I planted the barrel garden with moonflowers, nasturtiums, multicolored snapdragons, white snapdragons, regular petunias, and antique climbing / trailing petunias.

EDIT 5/3/21 -- After supper I pulled grass off the septic garden.  I was hearing rumbles of thunder then and more now.  We're supposed to get some rain tonight.

EDIT 5/3/21 -- A small quantity of pea-size hail has arrived with the thunderstorm.  I note that it is hailing much more often in recent years than it used to.

Poem: "Carried Away Piecemeal"

This poem is spillover from the April 20, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by ng_moonmoth. It belongs to the Daughters of the Apocalypse series.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes dire climate change effects, the ruinous impact of dams on anadromous fish like salmon, an apocalypse that kills millions of people, survivors struggling to survive in the Aftermath, and a tribe deciding to destroy a dam to restore the river system. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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Notes for "Carried Away Piecemeal"

These are the notes for "Carried Away Piecemeal."

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Today's Smoothie

Today we made a smoothie with:

1 cup orange strawberry banana juice
1 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup fruit salad mix (strawberries, peaches, pineapple, red grapes, kiwi)
1/2 cup ice

The texture is thin, the color pinkish, and the flavor delicious. :D