Triple play...

1. The Friends of the Library has a speaker for the Annual Meeting. Kerry Madden has graciously (and wonderfully) accepted our offer to be the speaker at our luncheon/annual meeting in November. Thanks so much to Catherine Landis checking with Ms Madden about her availability, and letting us know about her. We’ll get the specific arrangements made over the next few days. But the panic time is over (for the moment).

2. We watched The Blind Side tonight. We just didn’t get to see it when it was in the theaters, so this was the first one I picked when I signed up for Netflix again. What a nice movie!!! Lots of chuckles and “feel-good”. Sandra Bullock definitely deserved the Oscar. And we loved all the football coaches playing themselves. I don’t think I remembered that it was based on a true story. But the main thing was that in the scene where she first gets Michael into the car with her family, I realized that this woman could very easily be Sue. I can definitely see her doing this. Sue - how do you like this - Sandra Bullock playing you!

3. The biggest excitement of the day was having a red-shouldered hawk perch right outside our living room window - no more than about 30 feet away from us. This magnificent animal (@ 16 inches long, with 40 inch wingspan) sat there posing for us for about an hour. The other birds and even the chipmunks didn’t seem to mind his being there. We kept hoping he’d so something, but other than stretch and poop occasionally, he just sat. And then, of course, we blinked. John saw him hit the ground, and then fly away with something in his talons. We guess that one of our chipmunks went to provide dinner for our new friend. What a treat - he can come back to “shop” in our back yard any day!

 

(The line across the picture is the wire the bird feeders are hung from.)