It's been well over a month again since my last update. What have I been doing in all that time? Well, nothing exciting, that's for sure, and that's why there have been no posts! And there's still been nothing of importance to really write about, but I thought I'd at least check in so you'd know I didn't kick the bucket or something!
I did get out to dinner with a couple of lady friends last night. That was a pleasant couple of hours with pleasant company and good food. I had had breakfast with one of them a month or so ago, but the other I hadn't seen since March so it was nice to catch up again.
Hubs and I will be "celebrating" our 20th anniversary next week. Neither of us has mentioned it, so expect it'll come and go like every one of the last 19...just another day.
Nick finished his junior year of high school, so we now have an official high school senior in the house. He says he's looking for a summer job...we'll see how that goes. He stays up late and then sleeps until noon.
A mama hummingbird (the 2nd one) hatched babies a few days ago. Sadly, today I noticed she wasn't gathering bugs in the air in the back yard like usual and hadn't come back to the nest, though she was at the feeder once. I also noticed an ant trail on the branch to the nest - it's right outside my kitchen window! I took a stool out and pulled the branch down a bit - it sits about 6' high - and no babies anymore - so something happened since late yesterday. The first mama to build and use this nest was very skittish & I'd had to put a curtain over the window so she wouldn't fly away every time she saw activity in the kitchen. That one's hatchlings seem to have suffered a similar fate while I was away in April. This was a different mama - different markings - and she wasn't skittish at all. At times, she would hover right outside the window and watch me. She also never flew off the nest when I went out to refill the feeder even though I'd walk right past the bush the nest is in. Maybe in the days ahead it'll be "third times a charm" and we'll get chicks that survive to adulthood.
I've worked on my genealogy quite a bit over the last few weeks. I switched to Legacy8 software from Family Tree Maker, and am going through a huge learning curve - not as easy as when I was younger. I am getting there though, and in all fairness to myself, this software is so much more powerful which is what is making all the different elements a learning challenge. An interesting tidbit I uncovered in my research was that the second wife of my paternal uncle, was in the same orphanage as my step-dad was at the same time - they were enumerated on the same page. My step-dad had a different surname at that time, as did the aunt. I asked him if he recalled her name, but he didn't, and while I still send Christmas cards to her, she never responds. Neither she, nor my step-dad were truly orphans, but this was back in 1940 when an orphanage aka children's home was available to parents who for whatever reason were no longer, or temporarily unable, to care for their children. She was there with two siblings. I don't know how long they were there, but my step-dad was there for five years until a biological aunt adopted him...yet his bio-parents were both still living.
My dad had his lower back surgery. Sounds like it went well, but he wasn't happy that they made him stay in the hospital for a couple extra days because he's so non-compliant. Additionally, he spent a week or more at rehab/care facility for the same reason and so that he'd be forced-compliant. He seems to be more inclined to comply now - I don't think he wants to be back in that same position again. He'll be 83 in August and has never been compliant with much of anything in his life.
There's not been much else of interest lately. For my quilting world activities - or lack thereof, I'll put a brief post over on Webs of Thread.
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