Month: August 2004

Wanted to post an update for the bird lovers out there. Junior and I successfully got Woody out of the house. And I am happy to say that while I was in the driveway scrubbing down the spark-guard-thingy, I thought I could hear a woodpecker over in the woods. That made me feel very happy, by the way. Before we were able to let him out I did put some grapes in the fireplace for him.

If someone knows woodpeckers, there was a slash of red on the back of his head, his wings were spotted, and the underside of his tail was bright yellow. Like I said earlier, he was just beautiful. And huge. I suspect that he was too big to actually fly straight up in as small a space as the chimney flue. Poor guy.

And poor me. Teach me to leave some ashes in the fireplace…do you know what beating wings do to ashes?

Oh crap, there was/is a bird in the chimney and it can’t seem to fly UP the chimney, and at one point it ended up in the bottom of the fireplace flying against the spark guard thingy. We were trying to catch it in a butterfly net without letting it into the main house, but that wasn’t working very well, mostly because this was a pretty big bird. We think a woodpecker.

Of course, it’s Sunday, so we’re having a hard time reaching anyone to help us out. This totally stinks. (p.s. Figuratively and literally.)

Man, we had a couple of days of reaaaaly bad storms. Last night we were rewarded with a drop in humidy and an amazing sunset. Here’s one of the shots I got:

As a service to my readers (and other people who aren’t my readers but could be if they would just type my URL into their browser’s address field. Sheesh.) I have created a new page where all the “Still Life With Interview” pieces from the Daily Probe will live. The link is over in the right menu. Tell all your friends!

I have another interview over at the Daily Probe. Just as a heads-up, I am working on creating a new page here at the Dump to feature all the ones I write. Until I get that done, you can read the new one at the Probe.