Flight

Tomorrow morning at approximately 8:30 am the stem cell transplant takes off.

Today I tried to get the birds in motion

This was actually a little squirmish like we want Jim's stem cells to have with ML's.

Front or back?

Back :)

Balancing act:

ML sent some pictures of Jim and her husband Philip at the Citadel.

Ha!

Thanks to whomever took these pictures!

So back to my regular walk patter.

Look who's back already.

I got close to the gazebo but not too close.

There will be quite a clean up this year.

The lost shoes made it through the winter.

I hope that eventually something grows through them but they look pretty indestructible.

Cool feet:

I saw a couple of new birds.

This downy woodpecker was hammering away at dead limbs. Lots to choose from!

He had a little red on his neck.

Pretty far away but it looked like he was trying to impress this robin.

Barking up the wrong tree I think.

This is a European starling.

It'll be solid black with a little green in the summer.

Harry headed straight for the cat nip pot.

He seemed to find something!

This:

Now that's optimism.

Still a bit wet for a cat.

But this happened for the first time this year:

He's still very nervous about cars so he'll enjoy hanging out in uncle Henry's nice quiet back yard soon. Sorry about the bedazzled harness Henry.

Harry's hoping for maybe a new peacock feather to play with there too.

This one is toast.

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Still a bit of a dream: