@johnbishop and all...look at your little rodent's coloration...the stipes are beautiful. Sitll visiting, eh? Looks like you have a lot of sunflower lovers and yes, it does help to keep the feeders filled. I do pretty well, but lately they had to wait for the best and for me to clean the feeders.

John. we've had a very wet spring/summer rains are heavy Want some, @artist01 ? I'll send you some rainwater happpily. I've been having flooding on the patio, got another 2inches today, before noon, and then more in evening. yesterday I was concerned as the downpour left about 2inches within an hour and it sat a while, the ground is so saturated.

Love the results re plants, grass is happy, blooms look good. I took a bunch of pictures this afternoon after taking Rob to doc appt and picking up meds. He has maybe a cracked or bruised rib that's causing a lot of additional pain. I was concerned it was gall bladder or liver....don't think so, and he needed to get to doc.

Love your birds, John. Nice selection. I do have pictures for you of my friends, and of my cute little wire ball filled w/sunflower seeds a few days ago. Not being eaten. Why? They're all sprouting! I will definitely add a fun pic of that!

I have a huge crop of mosquitoes this year. Worse than ever and flies and gnats. and spiders. I open the door to let Sam out for a patio visit, get bitten several places. My antibody levels are low and I am having very bad reactions to these bites. Yesterday, I stayed quite, let he home health nurse in the front door and was bitten with 4 skeeters in just that quick time. I spray OFF on bare skin any time I'm out to water of fill feeders or whatever, and learned to spray the bites. It stops the bite irritation faster than anything, also use cortisone and benadryl cream. Yesterday, took 1 benadryl capsule, fell into bed and slept soundly for over an hour. woke up scratching. Got more bites in bed. So, now I have mosquito invasioin......guess I'll get something to spray. This is bad florida...

Had good weather this week, mid 80's,, not extremely humid amazingly except around rains, but sure is wet. Tomorrow will bring higher heat.

seeing more than double now, blurred and can't see what I'm doing.
will tell you latest dx: pulmonary fibrosis, enlarged main pulmonary artery, pulmonary hypertension, sinus pain, etc improved than you Lord, vasculitis....that's it for now. hope I typed it ok andnyou can understand. I can't see, so blessing to all of you lovely folks and I'll get with you and spend time this week0end on sending pics. You'll be sorry

elizabeth