Not a productive day

[pameladean]

I've got to quit this not sleeping well. Maybe it's the absentminded consumption of caffeine after five p.m. I should watch that.

I took Aristophanes outside today. He was not best pleased by the snow on the leaves and grass, but found some nice dusty dry patches to roll in, and sniffed vigorously at various objects, and pawed at the back door before I got bored and had to annoy his dignity by scooping him up. Arwen sat at the top of the basement steps looking wistful while I put his harness on, but I unfortunately can't be taking three cats for walks, and if Arwen goes Naomi has to go too, I think.

I got over to Eric's to see to Toliman rather later than usual, and he was fairly vociferous; also monumentally purry. He sat next to me on the bed and kneaded the pillow and purred steadily for half an hour. He didn't want to be petted all that time, but he purred.

There were a lot of crows in Stevens Square Park, making a great many editorial remarks about the universe.

I came home by way of the grocery store, and later went out again because we were out of dishwasher detergent. I'm not sure I have done anything else of note, except find where I left A PRIDE OF HEROES and start in reading it again; also watched a couple of "Buffy" episodes. Laundry, I guess, a bit of that. But really, that's not much of a day. Feh.

Pamela

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's not too bad. We've all had days where much less was got done; I think you did middlin' well.

I am glad to hear of the crows. We had a stupendous murder of them for about a year, terrorizing the squirrels and strutting about the yard as if it were theirs. But since mid-summer hardly any. Out walking around the time of their disappearance, about a block from home, we found a crow shivering in a huddled lump on the sidewalk. It was clearly ill, and did not move though we stood within inches of it. We figured it for a West Nile Virus victim, and then we noticed how few crows there were.

Perhaps they've just moved on.

K. [that'd be best, I think]

[pameladean]

I've certainly had days where I got less done. But I had more excuse. I'll take middlin' well, though.

As for the crows, yes, I noticed far fewer of them in my neighborhood too, though at least I didn't have to suffer seeing them be ill. I read that their numbers were down far enough that the DNR was worried about an upsurge of rodents. But there are still lots of crows about. Eric tells me that dozens and dozens of them roost in Elliot Park; he sees them on his way home from school, and a few will usually rise from their roosting and flap about as he bicycles by. If you go out at sunset you can see them flying to their nighttime places. About three dozen roost in the remaining big elms in streets near me. I don't have my very local ones any more, though. Three or four of them used to come splash all the water out of the birdbath, sit on the garage, and comment raucously on everything.

Pamela