@athenalee and all...Thanks for the great message. I'm hitting a low point right now with new negative junk flooding in over my head! Feel like the mound of scratched dirt from the burrows under my fence and piled up against my building wall on the patio...feel like that pile of dirt is drowning me! I rarely get like this, it's just I don't see a way to get everything accomplished that I have to get done. No strength, no energy, have the will, but not the ability, so I'm having a ginormous pitty- party. As I've told myself before, many times, that's just fine. Go ahead and feel sorry for yourself....for 12 hours tops. Then, get off your duff and make it happen.

So, tomorrow I go to Mayo and get some things done, have a covid test so I can see the sinus surgeon on Tuesday. Poor baby, she needs me to have a covid test before she sees me....this will be the 17th test. Now I insist they do the throat swab. No more nasal swabs for this girl.

On the way home tomorrow, I'm stopping at Lowes to buy some rat poison. Yep. Lots and lots. That's the latest. My cat, the wonderful baby she is, is stalking rats upstairs in my bathroom. I've told you folks I'm in the middle of redoing all my baths, have new toilets installed and old vanities gone...except the master that I still use. Plumbers found a huge pipe that carries out all the water to the sewage has a big crack and must be replaced, since last August, before sinus surgery. So, I have holes in my ceilings and walls where the plumbers searched for the issues and the rats are having a ball in my attic. Now, they're apparently coming into the upstairs from the attic and chewed a hole in the drywall behind my master vanity. The cat stalks them at night and is keeping me safe.

I'm getting rat poison to put in the walls and ceilings and attic and outside the patio fence....may throw some into the holes where some animal is burrowing under my fence onto the patio~~~I'm ready to bomb my place and be done with it!

Anyway, that's my tale. I enjoyed so much watching the precious birds this afternoon/evening. I had 2 pairs of doves and a smaller one, a tanager, the birds I mentioned earlier, a huge bluejay, and a huge mockingbird. Lots of activity at 4-5 pm and 8-9ish am. They have a schedule! I do love them.

Well, goodnight and God bless. All will be better tomorrow, I'll kill some rats and whatever and feel lots better. If I had a rifle, I might be shooting some rats, solving the problem. Better crock outside and not in my walls....Apologies for being so full of fun tonight! Love to all. elizabeth