Jan 4, 2010 by Naomi.

Between the rain and the road mist raised by traffic today, visibility was limited when I drove home from McNary Education Center. I am very pleased with the rain. The temperature is about 37 F but after all this is January and spring is yet far away. Although perhaps not as far as in past years. Global warming is possible. We will know more if birds come early. Those early birds would face disaster if their hatchlings appear before the great insect invasion. Many birds feast on seeds and do nicely when those are available. However the hatchlings cannot eat seeds and insects are protein that does not require difficult digesting. Well some adult birds partially digest foods and the young reach into the their gullets for lunch. Sounds pretty gross but the birds thrive so it obviously is supposed to be that way. But rain is forecast to fall every day this week some percent of the time and that’s fine with me. Makes me a really happy camper, mostly because I do not intend to camp out in it.

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Jan 4, 2010 by Naomi.

The Internet is the first thing I look into when I wake up and this morning at 0230 my time, earthquakes hit the Solomon Islands near the infamous Guadalcanal. There were five or more registering from 4.7 to 7.2. Along the east coast of Japan had frequent action in the past months and the interior of China was devastated last fall. But upon checking on the home front my email had a response from a second grade 1932 - classmate — I googled yesterday and found one viable email to which I wrote. Sure enough Wayne Tinberg answered. He admitted that he was not an Internet person (at least the old duffer reads his email) and preferred the telephone so that will probably happen tonight. Ashton finished our 1000-piece wolves jigsaw puzzle last night. I do not like to think of discombobulating the beautiful 27in by 20in piece of art but I need the space to have a go at “Into the light” which shows a bald eagle in full flight with a sunrise behind her. Maybe we won’t get it all together before Ashton has to fly home on the seventeenth but we will have a good start. Today is my day at McNary and we will pick Bracken up on the way to catch up on what’s happening there. Cloudy skies, no fog, nice day.

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