Cooking ideas and all the birds down here

[nancytoday]

I wonder what i should make for dinner. I loved those noodles we had at that restaurant with Alida and Oma. She said they used saffron and was it anise? I should google it to find out. I never eat pasta, but I like it. It seems like empty calories. I woudl prefer to eat cookies if I'm going to be eating flour!

It would be fun to create a meal with a recipe! That woudl be lots of fun, actually. I could make a cheesecake! Now that would be wonderful.

There are a lot of toads starting to sing now. They are all in teh bushes, none of them are over here near the pond. I wonder how the tadpoles feel about that.

The birds that I've heard and seen down here today:
Robin
Rose breasted grosbeak
Ovenbird
cardinal
Cedar waxwing
Common Yellowthroat
Warbling vireo
chickadee
yellow warbler
woodpecker
goldfinch
bluebird
tree swallow

horse fly
black admiral
deer fly
black fly
ants
damselfly

thunder.