Anticipating needles and needle-noses
They are back! With a buzz and a whir, the first of the sugar hawks arrived at our front side feeder, this morning. Of course, I took the time to record the sighting on a special website that has a daily map update going on, for years. Yes, I can check back to see if this is early or late arrival. No, I haven’t.
The little bundles of kinetic energy are highly territorial, so I expect the number of battles to ramp up quickly. This is the only species we track, now that robins are hanging around all year long.
And speaking of other needles, the window of opportunity to get the important vaccination rendezvous opened this afternoon for son #3, the youngest. His brothers have already made it through the gauntlet, and should begin their immunizations next week. A quick moment of relief from anxiety for the involved parents.
Turning to other things, I’ve been informing myself about what one needs to order to rebuild a macerator pump. I have no direct experience, but it seems that being proactive is a good thing; the pump will break, eventually, and keeping your night soil on hand is not good. Better to plan. Best to fix before things break. Enough about that, for now.
Had a question, last evening, from one of the kids about how a ham radio license is obtained. Finally! I mean, I’ve been providing low key reinforcement for all of their lives. I threw in some old photos, just to show the evolution. They may never know the fear of a high voltage lead to a vacuum tube, but the history is out there (and does not bear repetition).
