January is half over, and I don’t have too much to show for it except a pile of boxes. Our lives have become an endless blur of home repairs, painting, and packing. With a few runs to the dump and the recycling center to break the monotony. We’re both givers and receivers at the recycling center. We give various recyclables and we get all the cardboard boxes we can. Dumpster diving at its finest.
Our life in boxes.
My beautiful Olhausen pool table, in pieces on the living room floor.
We worked in a one-night run to West Lafayette to relocate Lise’s piano to there. We were going to stay another night but there was a nasty snowstorm heading in. So, we hightailed it back here a day early to beat the storm. And get some more packing done.
Birding or photography have pretty much fallen by the wayside since leaving Delaware. Before leaving Delaware, we got great views and some photos of a common eider. These are usually seen far away, bobbing in and out of the waves across some large body of open water. So, this was kind of a treat.
Common eider at the Indian River Inlet, Delaware.
Our only birding here has been chasing a snowy owl that was reported close by. We saw it sitting by the fence behind the Alaiedon Township hall. Not a very classy sighting, but it did get us our snowy owl for the year. A very classy bird, even in a less than classy setting. Then we went home and did more packing.
Snowy owl, Alaiedon Township Hall, Michigan. It looked a lot better through binoculars.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 