I do love nature, the backyard, the sky, the vegies now plump and full and the cilantro and dill finally showing themselves to the world, the cardinals and titmice and sparrows and chickadee-dee-dees and my good friend the hummer. I love them all. Have even accepted the majority of bugs (though I do sprinkle salt on the snails) and the fox and the babbits and even all seven skunks.
The hawks were my buddies too, and welcome to share my little patch of earth and sky because honest to God, I’ve tried but I’m just not crazy about mice, voles and chipmunks and the great Red-Tailed Hawks really are.
But four days of non-stop screeching is starting to wear my nerves down.
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