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Stellar February

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A new month! Bills to pay! Decisions about hosting plan to make! January retreat is finished! Today I will be putting only three more drops of eye medicine into the right eye and then it is only the left eye to treat, with 5 drops a day. 

This morning was warm enough that Rozsa the cat wanted out and stayed out for quite awhile. I hung a little wash out till I heard raindrops on the roof and decided to bring it in. Green grass everywhere, And stellar jays in the garden and cherry tree. Very noisy, very busy.

I decided I liked a pre-breakfast meditation. I pulled out Divine Intimacy and found the page for Septuagesima week Thursday. This year I am only reading the prayer part of the meditation. Not the instructional, doctrinal parts. The prayer parts are often full of quotes.

Today’s choice for me was by St. John Eudes: “O my God … draw me to you.” I will to keep it in mind throughout the day. I wrote it in a little book which I keep on the kitchen table so I can consult it when I forget… 

It was so nice waking up and looking out the bedroom window and seeing clearly. I spotted the first stellar jays in my neighbours’ yard. I will see if any of my photos are usable. The jays were very active and only one briefly  posed for me.  

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The dark headed Stellar jay was in the sunflowers. Usually they zip away as soon as I approach the window but this one was not shy.

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He shared the biggest flower head with the chickadees. They took turns, the chickadees flitting in one after another, then staying clear when the jay came back for more.

Rosalee was very close by. I dashed out and got her out of the garden. By the time I got back inside she had returned. She’s a good jumper and climber. All the time I watched, she made no aggressive move towards the birds. She just sat staring. She is fast, but I pray the birds are faster.

I wish the birds would coordinate their feeding sessions with Rosalee’s nap time Now, for example, she is at the front window in her little carrier fast asleep. No birds are in the garden.

Today I have a clear day and will return to yard clean up, including leaf raking and rearranging all the bits and pieces of burnable wood stashed away in baskets and boxes here and there under tarps. A. truckload of firewood came, but my supplier is behind schedule and I am not positive he will finish the order. I have some big rounds of fir, gifts from a tree faller, but I am not strong enough to split them by hand. Once the snow comes, it will be hard to haul them out.

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