Barbara J. Hamby

Recent Developments

After driving my youngest sister to the airport in heavy showers on Tuesday morning, I peeked into the ivy pot on my front porch, at the bird’s nest that had contained four eggs that hatched into three tiny birds. To my shock, it was empty. The last time I saw the baby birds, they hadn’t yet opened their eyes. There was no evidence of an attack by a larger bird or animal, so I guess the mother bird moved them. She had built the nest in the pot next to our front door and there was a lot of traffic in and out over the weekend. Perhaps she took offense at all that activity.

I’m left with the mystery of how and where she built another nest, if she did. Could she have persuaded the father bird, who’d been hanging around, to do the job?

I think there was a consensus of opinion among the group of my relatives who gathered here this weekend, as to the type of birds who were tenants on my porch, but I can’t remember what it was.

It was good to have all of my sisters together with me this past weekend, along with many other relatives I don’t see often enough.

My TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) group had a great week. All but one person attending had lost weight, and the remaining one only gained a quarter of a pound.

At the grocery store this morning, the young cashier was shocked that I wanted my change in coins. I told her I needed the nickels for TOPS meetings. She said her mother is in TOPS and she, herself, likes to go to the meetings because they’re “so much fun.” True. We have a good time at most of the meetings, even if too many of us have gained, which hasn’t happened recently.

Time to rustle up some food for dinner. We’re nearly out of leftovers.

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