masqthephlsphr

I miss getting the updates about birthdays.  It seems my service provider considers anything from LJ spam. :-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!   dlgood 

masqthephlsphr

Hope you have a great day!!!

This is two mornings in a row, during breakfast, that a Cooper's hawk has swept in on the bird feeders, and briefly paused on the arm of our umbrella stand (about 15 feet from where we eat).  It didn't get anything but it was exciting nonetheless.  The other birds only take about a minute to make sure the hawk's gone before coming back in to eat ( Read more... )

masqthephlsphr  has suggested I update more often - implying that once per year was just not enough.  LOL

However, habits die hard.  It's important to recognize when you need help.  So I went in search of a 12 step program for posting more often, that is, more often than once per year.  Side bar comment: I do see that more than once per year is valuable otherwise ( Read more... )

This from the man who's head of the IOC

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/hockey/news/newsid=52298.html?cid=rss

Women's hockey has to improve or face expusion from the Olympics.  Of course, it's not the women, but the men who are holding the women back in hockey with lack of funding, lack of support, etc.  This strikes me as telling womean that they better ( Read more... )

Hi all,

Eight days left before I return home from the Olympics. Vancouver is a great town and great to see the fun people from all over the world are having here - UK journalists excepted, but they're a sour bunch anyway.

Had lunch with midnightsjane today.  Really great to catch up on Jane's life.  Big stuff going on as she prepares to be "landed gentry".  I'm ( Read more... )

Following the crowd here...#1 song on the day I was born.

Happy birthday to a fellow scorpion masqthephlsphr

Hope you had a great day, ann1962