Sunshine and blue skies - for a change! The Crestone Music Festival is this weekend, and they really got slammed (again) yesterday; we heard that venue (a golf course) is a mudbog today. No surprise after a week of rain.
Terry is trying to talk us into staying through next weekend, which is the big annual Valley View party. Fine with me! Plus her bookclub meets that Monday, so she's offered the book ("Someone" by Alice McDermott) to me to read beforehand.
I did a load of laundry (first time this trip) while we were sitting on the back porch as Neil got a shave and we watched Shadow watch the herds of hummers sucking the feeders dry. (Even though they're large ones, we have to refill them several times a day. Sound familiar, Marilyn?) I brought Terry a wonderful hummingbird book, and we think we can figure out how many hummers she's feeding by how much sugar water she's going through daily; the book said a hummer will drink 1/5 oz. each day.
It was perfect up at the party pool this afternoon - water had warmed up a bit - and when we'd had enough sun we cruised down to the swimming pool. Terry spotted that rotund yellow bird she's been trying to identify, and I got a look at it also. Some think it's a finch, some a warbler. It does seem to be missing its tail, which may be the reason it looks so round. Sure is a beautiful bright yellow. I also took a picture of the berry bush Terry is trying to identify, which may help.
We treated Neil and Terry to dinner at the Steel Horse in Villa Grove. The special tonight was ribeye kabobs - very good. When we got home we 'went' to Scotland again (Tom had missed seeing the pix the other night when he was off soaking), finished off the leftover desserts (as good as the first time), and watched an interesting movie, 11:14, that I definitely want to watch again.
Another wonderful day at Valley View. :)
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