Roys-R-Us

Not much going on. School starts next week, so I spent today getting a lot of my school supplies. I got a new notebook that I thought was really cool. It' s Mead Five-Star wirebound notebook that has fabric covering the wires so they don't get caught on everything. It has several notecards in different sizes in perforated sheets in the front with a couple of storage pockets to store the ones you punch out. It has folder pockets as well, but the best part was that it is half college-ruled paper and the other half is graph paper. It made my inner-nerd smile a little.

When I was leaving my apartment a couple of days ago, I noticed something a little out of place down by the creek. It was some sort of big crane that was perched down there. I walked down and was able to get really close (within about 20 feet) and got a few pictures. It wasn't moving much. The most movement I saw from it was a yawn as I was walking down...everything else was pretty much eye and slight head movement.

I have a birdfeeder that I keep on the ground on my patio so that the squirrels can easily get to it and I (and Sylvester) can see it out the window. The squirrels get pretty agressive and digs out almost all of the seed to get the sunflower seeds, so I plan on getting some that is mostly made of the bigger seeds they like. Well, there had been piles of the seed lying outside the feeder and piled up on the ground....I didn't bother to clean them up any because I knew the birds would eventually get them. I noticed today that several of the seeds have spouted so I now have a nice little green patch on top of all of the ground covering they place around the apartments. Maybe I should spread some more of that around to get more green than brown.