Anything New?

No, not really.

 

End of today's post.

 

Well, maybe not. But the Groundhog Day I described last week hasn't really ended. I'm still home and writing most of the time--mostly editing the manuscript I'll be turning in soon, but also planning and making notes on what's next. I keep the internet on in the background and check social media now and then. I walk my dogs a lot and obey their commands, and of course they're happy.  I visit grocery stores occasionally and carefully. I do online crosswords and other word games.

 

Sound familiar? It's pretty much what I said last week.

 

But I hadn't mentioned texting family and friends, and sometimes talking to them on the phone. That's always enjoyable.

 

And I get to do some bird watching in my backyard. There are hummingbird feeders over the porch outside that I can see as I write through a window.  And a couple of yellow finches have been trying to get into that window lately, though I don't know why. I hear a lot of other birds, see and hear crows flying around as usual, and watch a hawk land on a tree nearby and observe the world. I hear some birds tweeting, and since I'm far from being an expert on birds I don't know who they are. And I accompany my dogs into the yard to protect them from some over zealous mockingbirds. But seeing birds is mostly fun, at least, and though I see birds most of the year there are more in the spring.

 

So tune in next week? Maybe I'll say the same things all over again.