Windows....

I had to search to find this photo...I wanted a pic of a window that I had not shown before...just to have something new.  This is from Nashville, Indiana.  I have taken pics of this window before..you can see it here...it is the one on the left side.  This place has such unusal stuff.
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I was reading a little today and in it the character mentioned remembering her mom opening the window.  And just that phrase 'opening the window' ...it brought back memories.  I remember mom always having me open the kitchen windows.  We didn't have AC so it got quite hot in there in the summer with all the canning and cooking going on.  Sometimes if they were stuck, we had to wait for one of my brothers.

I had a corner bedroom and could open up the windows in there and I would get a cross breeze.  Back then, heat didn't bother me near as bad as it does now.  I think I have become 'soft.'

I also remember when I was really young, I slept with my pillow on the window seal and laid there and listened to the whippoorwills.  And I could hear the traffic down on the highway...but there was not the traffic that there is now.  I also remember my brothers setting listening to vehicles and saying what kind of car it was...and maybe even saying what kind of motor.  I don't know if they really knew what they were talking about or if they were just guessing...the highway was about a mile away....so there was no way to see what cars really were.

Then when Roger and I lived in Tennessee, we opened the back door, then opened the window to the bedroom and our little house cooled out real quick.  But it was where the sun didn't really shine on the house till up in the morn...probably 9:00 or 10:00 of the morn and then it was back in the shade early in the evening.
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It has gotten colder....it was shirtsleeve weather yesterday.  Tomorrow the high is supposed to be in the 20's.  With some snow tonight, but they are still talking like it will be more like flurries.

Down a snowy road....

This is from a couple years ago...though we may get a little bit more snow later in the week.  It is not supposed to amount to much.  I sure hope it doesn't...

Lorelei let her mom know she has really been missing us.   And wants to come down next weekend, but wants her mom to stay home.  That is a sure sign she has recovered fully from her surgery...she hasn't wanted to be ten feet from her mom in a long while.  With her being sick off and on and other things happening, it has been ages since she has been here.

Though she did tell me over the holidays that she is going to come when it is summer and spend four days with us.  Of course she told me what we were going to do those days...go to the park one day, go fishing at the creek another day, etc.  I told her so long as it don't rain.  She said we could change our mind then...

I can't wait for the weekend now....

An Eagle day!

We went for a little drive...up to Mansfield, Indiana...to throw our line in the water.  I spotted an eagle in the distance.  I pointed it out to Roger and we both seen it land in the tree.  The tree was across a field, and even with my camera lens extended I did not see the adult eagle on past the juvenile.  But Roger spotted it with his spotting scope.

We went on to Mansfield, which is just a few miles on down the road.  I was casting around, not getting any hits at all.  I thought to myself I best be watching for an eagle...they fly down the creek and fly up in this tree, and if you are not watching...you miss it and never know they are there.

Instead of that happening, I saw one up in the air...not this fellow.  The first one I saw was still too far for my feeble lens but was an adult...I whistled to get Roger's attention...we both headed to the truck and the adult landed in the tree. I could see it...and I thought I saw another one.  But could not be sure.

Roger got out his spotting scope and was looking...and he spotted another adult flying plus the one in the tree...and along in there here came this one flying over us!

Roger thinks we saw 5, well, he saw five if that is indeed the truth   (In all of this I only saw the one adult.)...I myself think it was the same juvenile and parent we saw earlier.  We had just missed seeing the other adult in the first sighting.