Ember update

Almost a full year old. And, like any cat can tell you, the chair Mom abandons is the very bestest place to be….

  

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The tintinabulation of the wrens …

[with apologies to Gilchrist’s SSAA arrangement of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Bells”, available here]

In the early morning light, hear the wrens…
I am sure they take delight
In the metal that they bend

To stake out their territories
They must warble, they must boast
While the humans trying to sleep all dream
Of having them on toast!

How they kvell kvell kvell!
It’s a special kind of hell!
Oh the tintinabulation of the Troglodytidae Nation
It’s the wrens wrens wrens wrens
Wrens wrens wrens wrens wrens!

Courtesy of Google image search; all photo copyrights assuredly belong to other people. The wrens are suspicious of the whole arrangement.

Even in the dimming light, hear the wrens
They’re an auditory blight
And it never seems to end

They are perky, they are chipper,
They can keep this up all night!
They are tiny feathered creatures who
Cannot afford to fight

So they yell yell yell!
It’s a special kind of hell!
Oh the tintinabulation of the Troglodytidae Nation
It’s the wrens wrens wrens wrens
Wrens wrens wrens wrens WRENS!

This image of wrens is my responsibility. The wrens may or may not believe I have taken that seriously enough….

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Working off-site

Hadn’t done this in a while, and it was good to go out to sororitize with old friends and new.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Much of the experimentation won’t pay off for weeks or months, but that’s okay.  It’s fun to see what other people come up with, and then consider the options at leisure.

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I got the bees

  

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Holding pattern

  
I may have a little trouble typing…

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