More Eagles!

Can't get enough of Bald Headed Eagles! Our local couple hung out on the dead cottonwood for awhile this afternoon. Female on right, much bigger than male.

Tim Dorsey

Saturday night I went to a book signing. There were only about 25-30 people there. The author, Tim Dorsey, writes very funny books about Florida, similar to Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen. His protagonist, Serg A. Storms is a serial killer, with several coexisting mental illnesses, but he only kills people who need to be killed. His sidekick, Coleman, is a 40 something stoner described as idiotic, but I kinda like him.  I have not actually read any of his books, I download them from the library and listen to them on my MP3. As Authors go, Tim was very accommodating to his fans. Gladly signed as many books as you wanted and started the photo line himself.

Some clown behind me took this photo. There was no hair and makeup people so this is the best I could get.

Kayak Point

On the way home we stopped off at Kayak Point to have a look at the water. The water was a choppy wind blown brown, made me want a tall glass of chocolate milk! Accross the cove at McKees beach there was a mud slide that took out two houses, don't know why we didn't take any photos, I guess we were to entralled watching the who-ha with our binocs.

Cool old Barn

This is a cool old barn, too bad it was not kept up. If you can zoom in on the tree with the big nests, look at the top nest as zoomed in as you can. What do you see in the nest?

Looking for snowy owls

There is a Snowy Owl irruption this year across the northern  US. They have been spotted just North of us in Stanwood. Last week we took a little trip to try and find them. It was the day after the Big Rain. The sun was shinning but the wind was 'bout blowing my wig off. We hit two different spots where they have been seen, but, alas, it was not to be. No Snowy Owls.  Here is what we did see.

Snow Geese!

They were taking turns doing  puddle baths.

Northern Harrier!

Also called a Marsh Hawk. He flew over Jim and checked him out up close and personal, made for a good photo opt. Bottom photo shows the trademark white feathers at the top of the tail, makes it easy to identify.

Pintail Ducks!

This was a pleasant surprise. Usually big flocks of ducks like this are plain old Mallards. 

How highs the water mamma?

I guess I could just use the pictures from last years high water and you'd probably not even know the difference, but trust me, these are this years photos. Last Wednesday it rained hard all day and into the night. Puddles formed all over the yard. When the water starts to get too deep on the high side of the driveway it somehow drains underground under the driveway and comes out under the flower garden timber in a small rivulet.

Here is the deep water on the driveway high side, it is lower than it was at 11 PM Wed. night.This never happens with just regular rain. By Thursday afternoon it was gone, but the little rivulet went on for several days.

Top photo is the hugh puddle in the front yard formed mostly be the small rivulet. The bottom is the usual very high water line on the lake side. This is probably as high as it ever gets. It is incredible how fast the water comes up.

The top of the pilings are normaly about 5-6 feet above the dock, this is probably about 3-4 feet. We had alot of wind too, and we lost one of our walkways, hopefully we can get the canoe out and go find it before someone else claims it.

SADIE

February 4th we celebrated Sadie being with us two years! She was a foster dog the first year. We adopted her officially the second week of February, not certain the exact date we sent in paperwork. Her she is just back from the hair dressers. She is 13 1/2.