J&M got Maui'd!

I do not know what happened with this post. I must have lost it during the confusion around the delivery. I had a whole thing written out and posted, but it is now vapor-post now. I honestly do not remember what I was talking about except for maybe mentioning that it was better that we had gone to the hospital earlier because of the complications that we discovered while there? I do not know. I will post a more detailed debrief at some point in time. Once we have all the details that is.

So we are having a baby in a pandemic. This was obviously not planned this way but here we are. Also, we were expecting her to show up in a month, but here we are. Oh hello! Welcome to the real world Cowgirl! It wasn't always like this. We could see other people without masks before. Don't worry, things will get back to normal before you know it...

I don't know what happened with this posting. I uploaded it (I thought) and now it is gone. In any case, today is Serena's birthday. I should have named her Surena, but in the rush during and after the delivery I went with Maggie's spelling instead. Oh well, I will have more input when the next kid comes around..

My lawn is in constant need of de-weeding. One of the largest culprits is the lowly dandelion. Our neighborhood and ravine are covered by them and it is a constant struggle to keep them at bay on my property. The garden areas seem to do quite fine actually, probably due to the competition from the other plants, but the grassy areas are usually overrun by these invaders. Each day for the past week I would pull out a dozen or so plants. I usually just pull out the ones that have flowered. They are much easier to see. However, I know there are more, and each day I would see up to a dozen more flowers appear that need beheading. Granted, given that the areas around us look like they are dandelion lawns it seems like a small price to pay, it is still annoying to do, considering that there are at least a dozen other weeds that have invaded my back yard that I need to control, and I have to figure out what are weeds and what are not!

I found a robin's egg on the driveway yesterday morning. It had a small hole so I could see that there was yolk inside and no chick. I do not know how the egg got down there but there is a robin's nest over one of our outdoor lights so I figured that something had knocked it out somehow. How it survived the fall with such a small hole confounded me. I showed Elsy the egg, and how sad it was to be on the ground, and she proceeded to step on the egg and stomp on it. I was quite shocked that she would do such a thing! I asked her why she did it and she gave me some non-nonsensical answer. Well, what do you expect from a four year old? Still, I thought she was the gentle type but.. maybe she has some mean streak? In any case, I reviewed my camera footage and found out that the egg did not in fact get blown out of the nest. A robin flew into the nest, picked up the egg, and brought it down into the ground where it looked like it was taking sips from the yolk. It was a strange sight