Well, we're back from our "long winters nap" in the Southwest and are settling in to our summer habitat here in
Leelanau County Michigan. We had our contractor, Gerard Belanger do some final drywall upgrades to the
farmhouse while we were gone and are very pleased with the outcome. The remodeling took three years and a lot of our cash reserves but we feel that it was worth it. We now have a comfortable
home to settle into when we can no longer maintain
our full-time RV lifestyle. Our twilight years, so to speak; it's hard to imagine but somewhere along the years we have evolved into a couple of old farts. It just
doesn't seem that long ago that I was inviting this
cute 18 year old coed out for coffee after class at
Northwestern Michigan College. SIGH!
We arrived here on May 1 and Teddy has been busy every day
tending her gardens and I have been busy
holding down my recliner so that it doesn't fly away. ;-)
In the week and a half that we have been back we have already had quite a number of our feathered friends in or about our yard including:
Purple Finch
Goldfinch
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Mourning Dove
Black-capped Chickadee
Ring-billed Gull
Blue Jay
American Crow
Chipping Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
American Robin
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
Ruby-throat Hummingbird
Needless to say our cat,
Nazzie is quite excited for, as you might expect, he has a consuming interest in ornithology.
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I haven't taken many photos yet but did manage to snap this shot of a Northern aka Baltimore Oriole.
