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07/29/2007: "too many hours"

Too many 50+ hr weeks in a row = not much blogging.

Summer camps are in full swing and this year has thrown me for a loop. We have been so busy. Wonderfully busy, but it leaves little time for me to catch my breath and I feel like I am about 2 weeks behind with what I wanted to be doing this summer.

I owe one niece and one honarary nephew their birthday presents. I am working on them bit by bit and they might have them next week. Will be worth the wait, of course.

I am reading Harry Potter VII again. Slowly this time. Savoring. I read too fast usually. I finished about 2 1/2 hrs ahead of Andy. Much to his distress. He banished me to another part of the house until he was finished.

Spent the day baking, despite the heat. A friend is taking her 17 yr old daughter for brain surgery week after next. Bringing cookies to her doesn't begin to be enough, but it is something.

I keep forgetting to remark on our backyard fauna. A couple of Sundays ago we had a personal record for backyard species spotted at once - chickadee, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, sparrows, goldfinch, house finch, blue jay, robin, cardinal and squirrel. All within a 10 minute span. Our birdbath is popular. We often see nuthatches and juncos, but they didn't make an appearance that day. I also imagine that we had several sparrow varieties, but we were not ambitious enough to look them up. This afternoon we sat and watched a group of about 8 chickadees hunting for bugs in the leaves and taking turns visiting the peanut feeder and birdbath. Once in a while the nuthatch would swoop in and scold them and they would flutter up and wait for him to take his turn.