bird sighting!

There are a pair of male red-winged blackbirds in the backyard.

I was thinking it was bit early for them, but then I realised that it's already the middle of February, which is about when they've been showing up.

All of our snow has melted and it's dreary and brown outside. The sun is shining today, which makes it much better.

I spent 7 hours yesterday transcribing the 10 sheets of Children's March into something a bit more manageable. It's down to 6 pages, so that's a big improvement, and I'm not hunting around at each page shift to find where I am. (because the parts are so very different, the pagination is very different, and the start of one page on on part is halfway down a sheet on the other part. I kept missing notes because I was trying to figure out where I was....) I still need to go through and do a final proofing, but that won't take nearly as long.

I don’t think there’s supposed to be crying in football…

but when Damar Hamlin walked on to the field while SB57 was honoring the first responders who saved his life? And then the NFL went to the Walter Payton Awards? I saw grown men trying not to cry on international TV.

And then followed probably the best Super Bowl* game I’ve seen. I generally mute the commercials, but the visuals were pretty good. :) (I did unmute the Crown Royal “thank you Canada” ad, though.)

(* certainly not a Stupor Bowl, and not even a Superb Owl. By any standards, that was a very good game. which is often *not* the case….)