Birds Do It For Me

I am sitting home these days feeling isolated as I am sure most of you are as well. I have three close relatives working in healthcare. My 22-year-old granddaughter in an ICU unit has seen more death in the past three weeks than I have seen in my lifetime. My daughter-in-law, an ER doctor, has to make decisions of who receives healthcare and who she turns away. My 20 year old granddaughter is cleaning covid units as a CNA. All of them are overwhelmed and frightened by what is happening. We will be spending Thanksgiving alone so that next Thanksgiving we can be with each other. Please wear a mask and social distance. I get messages from each of these people begging me to be careful. I am asking each of you to be careful as well.

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So besides sewing I have been noticing nature a lot more. We live across from a lake. This is the first year we have been here. For the past three weeks we have had thousands of Canadian geese on the lake. It is amazing! Each day they land and sleep for a few hours and then about 4:45 each evening they leave enmass and fly right over our house to find dinne